Position Summary:

Be a key business partner to support regional Support Function transformation as a primary scope of responsibility. Build and promote the IS project portfolio of a business-related domain for which he / she is accountable of the execution or the regional deployment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Relationship Management

• The primary scope of the relationship management is covering : Human Ressources, Finance, Purchasing, Legal and Communication.

• Act as leader with all IS resources involved in project deliveries by providing guidance and supervisory support to the project ensuring alignment with commitments

• Can act as coach or mentor for other regional portfolio managers or project leaders.

• Participate to project leader staffing.

• Manage functionally and coach the project leaders assigned on the projects he / she is accountable for.

• Establish strong partnership with the internal stakeholders of the related domain in the region.

• Collaborate closely with the global portfolio manager by :

• Contributing to the domain global portfolio definition and execution by providing the regional status and information.

• Distributing global portfolio information having impact or interest for the stakeholders in the region.

• Portfolio definition

• Contribute to define a global portfolio roadmap along with key regional stakeholders: content and ambitions, macro timeline, rough estimates, or budget.

• Accountable to provide project budget inputs to IS Leadership and Executive Sponsors for the regional projects and deployments.

• Contribute to translate and organize the regional part of the defined roadmap into projects plan (timeline, budget, resources)

• Communicate Support the communication of the vision and the portfolio to IS and stakeholders in the region.

• Portfolio execution

• Accountable for portfolio execution from opportunity to end of projects & deployments impacting the region.

• Responsible of scoping phase to define budget & planning estimates and quality targets definition for projects & deployments impacting the region..

• Accountable for making sure the project delivery respects its commitments in terms of scope, deliverables, costs & timing.

• Provide inputs for Capacity Planning and secure staffing with IS Domain Managers and with business stakeholders when appropriate.

• Participate in vendor management (RFP/vendor selection). Follow-up vendor performance.

• Manage Fixed priced resources involved in project.

• Ensure that the user adoption in projects is defined and measured.

  Education, Skills, & Experience:

• Bachelors degree required with 5+ years of experience in program or project management in IT or any Support Function.

• High school diploma/GED with 9+ years of experience in program or project management in IT or any Support Function also accepted

• Experience in a regulated environment preferred but not required

• Experience working in a global environment / organization is preferred

• Solid analytical, organizational, and project management skills and leadership

• Very good interpersonal skills, active listener, organizational awareness and relationship building

• Very good communicator, both verbal and written

• Ability to present projects, challenges, and opportunities to technical and non-technical audiences

• Ability to lead internal cross-cultural and transversal groups in a Worldwide environment

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