Senior Manager, Project/Portfolio Management

With minimal direction, provide management for the Portfolio Solutions project management team, setting the direction for operations and change-the-business initiatives; manage changing business needs, resource capacity constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies. Provide strategic direction and management in the areas associated with maintaining a complex portfolio.

Manage stakeholder relationships with senior-level management across various functions

Collaborate with cross-functional business units around project planning, resourcing, and delivery

Collaborate with IT technical teams and/or external consultants to ensure successful delivery of projects

Provide leadership in the constructing of project teams, charters, project plans, contingencies, success metrics, and ROI measurements

Guide project managers and analysts to ensure that project quality and project management standards are followed and continually improved

Regularly interact with sponsors, stakeholders, and executive leadership to ensure meeting or exceeding project deliverables

Establish and monitor value metrics to inform decisions that maximize returns across enterprise projects and programs

Drive business value across all program activities

Plan, implement, and continuously improve project management best practices and tool sets to streamline project processes and procedures and maximize operational effectiveness

Job Specifications

Typically has the following skills or abilities:

Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience; Minimum of 1 additional year of experience related to functional area

Minimum of 3 years of management experience with responsibilities for hiring, training, assigning work and managing performance of direct reports

Project-related experience working on multiple concurrent simple to highly complex projects (project manager, business analyst, etc)

Experience with various project management methodologies, standard concepts, practices, procedures, tools, and/or software packages

Demonstrates ability to be a decision-maker, showing balanced consideration of business issues

Ability to influence teams in various divisions toward common goals

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFH)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFH), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment

Compensation range for the role is listed below. Applicable salary ranges may differ across markets.Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses and commissions. For more information regarding VSP Vision benefits, please click here.

Salary Ranges: $88,200.00 - $142,800.00

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