Description:
- Responsible for shepherding projects from ideation to funding
- Review incoming requests/new demand
- Define project scope with business and technology partners
- Elicit high-level business outcomes and deliverables
- Collect and document project budget estimates using supplied templates
- Partner with Technology Sourcing and Procurement to conduct RFP/RFI in support of solution and estimates for initiatives
- Work with Finance to create funding documentation (Pro forma, CAR, capitalization)
- Prepare executive-facing status reports in collaboration with multiple team leads responsible for conducting strategic planning with partners
- Create integrated business and technology roadmap for assigned area
- Engage with a diverse set of stakeholders and executive business partners to gain a strong understanding of business strategies and align with technology solutions
- Gather business demand and interpret demand into prioritized and valued business outcomes
- Engage with technology and digital partners to align their projects and demand to roadmap responsible for supporting business analysis and project coordination efforts, as needed
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in any of these roles/areas is a preferred: Portfolio Management, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Business Relationship Management, and Strategic Planning
Basic Qualifications:
- Very strong soft skills: leadership, facilitation, stakeholder management
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Highly skilled at collaborating with business partners and translating technical terms into business language
- Ability to work effectively with business and technology stakeholders and executive management
- Ability to build positive, mutually-beneficial relationships
- Information gathering methods, requirements documentation, and process modeling
- Interviewing, elicitation and facilitation of IT requirement from non-technical business personnel
- Ability to recognize value drivers and create outcome-based roadmaps to deliver against the value
- Ability to quickly learn new business areas and understand strategy
- Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities
- Must be technically savvy enough to collaborate in developer terminology, and to translate complex system interactions into business objectives
- Advanced proficiency with the following tools: Excel, Google Drive, SharePoint, Version One (preferred), Clarity PPM (preferred)
- Must be outcome and results-oriented
- Must be an independent, self-motivated professional with experience in a large corporate environment
- Must be flexible and adaptable to dynamic environment; Self-aware of personal styles and benefits of adjusting communication approaches to achieve joint objectives
- Ability to work independently and in a fast-paced, multiple-priority environment
- Results-driven with acute attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience with project initiation and funding processes
- Scope, High level estimates, RFI/RFP/RFQ, value statement creation
- Experience with documenting project budgets (in collaboration with various resources) and working with teams to refine and adjust
- Must understand differences between Operating Expense, Investment Expense, and Capital
- Experience creating technology and business roadmaps
- At least 5 years of experience developing IT Business Cases in a cross-functional/multi-departmental environment
- At least 3 years of experience working with or for a Portfolio and Planning team
Preferred Education:
- Masters degree in Business or IT related field