Portfolio Manager at Momentum

Role Purpose    

• The Agile Portfolio Manager will provide oversight to portfolio level value-driven governance for agile product deliveries across Momentum Insure. The position will play a crucial role in ensuring that all initiatives are aligned to the Momentum Insure’s business strategy and meet short/long term business needs and value expectations.
• This person will also drive portfolio-level information delivery and provide value risk oversight by partnering with product owners, product managers and project managers to define, analyze, and report on portfolio-level initiatives and business risks, metrics, and information related to value delivery

Requirements    
Experience and Qualifications

Qualifications

• Relevant B-degree or Diploma (essential)
• Relevant M-degree (desirable)
• Relevant Project Management Certification (desirable)
• Knowledge of relevant Project Management software and tools
• Knowledge of Project Management lifecycle, from conception to close-out
• Knowledge of agile methodology
• Knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Knowledge of products administered by the business unit will be an advantage

Experience

• 7+ years’ experience in a dedicated project management position (essential)
• Experience with managing large-scale programmes from conceptualization to close-out (essential)
• Experience with managing a portfolio of work
• 3 – 5 years in a senior management position (desirable)
• Business experience – understanding of business and business processes
• Proficient understanding of the Insurance industry

Duties & Responsibilities    
Portfolio management

• Ensure that the organization’s business and financial objectives and strategic goals are clearly articulated and accessible.
• Investigate the feasibility of initiatives in support of business strategy and objectives
• Facilitate, with the business executive team, initiative selection/approval and strategic prioritization to ensure maximum value to the business and prioritization of risk and compliance initiative.
• Maintain the overall business portfolio, with timeous inclusion of initiatives being implemented in the product/agile delivery teams.
• Ensure cross-product dependencies are managed
• Establish and implement metrics to measure the effectiveness of initiatives in line with  goals and key performance indicators
• Ensuring the portfolio is meeting the stated goals and objectives and delivering on the expected return on investment
• When needed, highlight initiatives that could be terminated/stopped that are no longer contributing to the overall business strategy and objectives
• Creating reporting documentation to communicate progress and other portfolio metrics.
• Resource Management: Collaborate with line managers to ensure the team is properly staffed with the right capacity and competencies to deliver on initiatives and when needed facilitate the (re-)allocating of resources throughout the life cycle of the portfolio.
• Oversee the achievement and risk “blockers” related to product deliveries
• Partner with product teams to review lean business cases, linking business benefits to investments for funding and allocation requests
• Ensure agile principles and practices are applied consistently
• Oversee the creation and review of key metrics, outcomes, and reporting related to key milestones and objectives
• Assess and report the health of product deliveries with objectivity, accuracy, and transparency
• Ensure that appropriate stakeholders are engaged in risk identification and mitigation
• Predict and identify risks/opportunities from interdependencies of product deliveries
• Support the identification/removal of barriers to delivery
• Promote the pace and energy within the team and leading by example
• Strong commitment and support for the success of the team and is outcomes

Agile delivery

• Develop agile delivery best practices and collaborate with project managers and business stakeholders to maintaining standards for project management and embed good agile delivery principles
• Key stakeholder engagement with areas in Momentum Metropolitan to align on delivery of initiatives
• to evaluate delivery processes and practices to find and support the best ways of delivery for the business

People goals

• Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with diverse leaders
• Proven experience managing effective programmes in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and/or other agile delivery
• Strong ability to design and implement dashboards; ability to analyze data and present it in a way that tells a story
• Comfortable with ambiguity, can handle the unexpected with flexibility
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to work with a collaborative approach and build trust with others

Competencies    

• Actively live the company values
• Analytical thinker
• Self-Starter
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Customer/ Stakeholder commitment
• Drive for results
• Collaboration
• Impact and Influence
• Exploring possibilities
• Making decisions
• Managing tasks
• Developing strategies
• Resolving conflict
• Articulating information
• Meeting timelines
• Negotiation skills
• Analytical skills
• Microsoft Office skills
• Communication skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Planning and organizing skills
• Conflict management skills

Closing Date    
2023/02/28