Portfolio Program Manager

Position Summary

The role will report to the Reprocessing PMO Senior Director and is responsible for the Project Portfolio management and Project Management operational excellence across Reprocessing.

• Owns the Reprocessing Project Portfolio
• Owns the PMO Scorecard
• Owns PMO processes, Leads PMO continuous improvement.

What You'll Do As A Portfolio Program Manager

• Establishes the Project Portfolio Plan
• Defines and owns the portfolio management process – intake, prioritization, optimization, governance.
• Collaborates with Marketing team on business case justification and product roadmap alignment.
• Develops criteria for evaluation portfolio and proposals and creates rules for making portfolio decisions
• Plans and facilitates monthly, quarterly, annual key Portfolio status overviews and deep dive sessions, as needed.
• Compiles and communicates portfolio information, status reports, dashboards with pertinent analytics.
• Analyzes trends; monitors portfolio components; coordinates with project teams to identify issues, risks, and opportunities for improvement; and designs strategies to mitigate or avoid future risks within the portfolio.
• Leverage knowledge and experience to deliver end-to-end solutions on PPM Platforms including interfacing with solution vendors
• Leads and owns Resource Management process, including capacity planning and utilization.
• Leads and coordinates Sponsor Gate Reviews, Project Execution Scorecard, Health Reports
• Fosters and evangelizes adoption of new processes, frameworks, tools which improve PMO operating rhythm
• Acts as the primary leader for PMO product development processes. Ensures strong guardrail management with effective PMO processes, and delivery of useful metrics.
• Identifies PM best practices and standardizes operational processes across sites.
• Defines / gathers metrics for PMO scorecard.
• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement by evaluating project outcomes, tracking key performance indicators, identifying areas for optimization and implementing process improvements.
• Travels up to 10%.

The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is required.
• 5+ years’ experience in project portfolio management development 
• Prior knowledge with different PPM methodologies and tools
• Demonstrated proficiency in project / program management, including ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong planning and organization skills required.
• Requires knowledge of PMO metrics and analytics to enable data driven decision making.
• Demonstrated leadership skills including timely communication, conflict resolution, assertiveness, negotiation and driving results.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound data driven business decisions
• Ability to communicate and collaborate within a team-based matrixed organization across all business functions, levels and cultures.  
• Excellent interpersonal and influence management skills including executive buy-in and decision making.
• Strong attention to detail, follow-through skills and experience to check behind the scenes to ensure surprises are minimized.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills at executive level.

Preferred:

• Requires knowledge of regulatory environment.
• Project Portfolio Management (PPM) in a medical device or a regulated industry preferred
• Knowledge of Lean Portfolio Management
• PMI PFMP or PMP
• Experience successfully managing program through medical device PDP process.
• Passion to explore / deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches to automate PM tasks.

What STERIS Offers:

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being and financial future.
 

Here is a brief overview of what we offer: 

•  Market Competitive Pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off and (9) added Holidays
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Long/Short Term Disability Coverage
• 401(k) with a company match
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement and continued education programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career.

 
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