Senior Manager Agile Delivery (People Manager, Remote)

The Senior Manager -- Agile Delivery will be responsible for maturing the lean portfolio/project management framework across the IT organization to foster collaborative partnerships with IT and Business partners, and identify creative, cost-effective solutions to achieve strategic business value. They will combine an understanding of lean portfolio management principles with the existing technology portfolio, to develop value-oriented plans that guide proactive decision-making in order to manage unforeseen demands, constraints, risks, and dependencies inherent to the client's environment.

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Required Skills & Experience

* 7+ years' experience in IT Program/Project Management with demonstrated project portfolio management skills (project/product intake, resource planning, demand management, budget management, product management) with Delivery Team experience

* Significant experience working in an Enterprise IT organization with multiple Agile Delivery Frameworks/Tools (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, Lean, SAFe, AzureDevOps, ServiceNow, Planview, or other similar ALM tools)

* Proven track record of leading agile transformations by successfully coaching and transitioning teams, programs, and portfolios at all organizational levels, including senior leadership

* Ability to forge strong relationships with both the clients and project teams that will contribute to your growth and development

* Experience working in the 3PL industry is a plus

* Experience working and guiding others (scrum leaders) about the ART and Lean-Agile practices

* Helps to guide value-driven development that aligns with the Objectives and Key Results of the organization, and monitors and reports on key performance indicators to tie results and return on investment back to overall vision.

* Functions as a servant leader fostering Lean-Agile Continuous Delivery, promoting and coaching Lean-Agile principles, empowering individual teams to become self-managing, and fulfill their cross-functional potential. Provides ad-hoc coaching and guidance to Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and individual team members.

* Build trusted and effective relationships with IT and Business partners in order to facilitate improved communication and create a collaborative partnership among portfolio stakeholders that enables resource demand planning, budget management, initiative strategic alignment, change management, and project pipeline planning decisions

* Contributes to strategic planning meetings and provides guidance and expertise on options, risks, cost vs. benefits, and impacts on departmental processes. Partners effectively with IT, Finance, and Business stakeholders to support capital expense planning, to build strong lean business cases for product and project funding / budgets, backlog management, pre-project planning, cost estimation, investment management, and business relationship management activities. Evaluate investment performance of the portfolio against stated goals, objectives, and key results in partnership with IT and Business partners.

* Support the implementation and administration of the project portfolio management solution across the IT organization with the goal of ensuring alignment across IT and its partners, focuses on prioritization, program & project tracking, resource alignment across all IT initiatives, and improving the successful execution of IT initiatives. Creates mechanisms for regular process reviews and continuous process improvements to support Delivery Leads, Program and Project Managers within the portfolio to ensure adherence to Delivery Team governance and methodology.

* Drive agility and improvement by managing risks and dependencies, escalates impediments to ensure portfolio delivery. Proactively and consistently communicates with the team, business owners, and leaders to ensure all impacted stakeholders understand risks, issues, and activities related to the portfolio. Manages and improves the flow of value through the portfolio by assessing and optimizing the practices associated with the team (DevOps, Product Management, Security, Architecture, etc.) in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Advanced Agile Certifications

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.