Title: Portfolio and Reporting Manager

Duration: 6Months contract  to hire

Type: 4D on site and 1 day remote

Location: Denver CO 80202

Pay: $55/hr to $60/hr

Position Overview: 

• As Portfolio and Reporting Manager, you will facilitate collaboration across various cross-functional technical, product, and non-technical agile teams, manage multiple portfolios, administer the PPM tool, and provide reporting support to extract data from Planview.

Daily Activtiy:

• Own and drive end-to-end portfolio management for key verticals.
• Provide support for quarterly planning of portfolios ensuring clear visibility to the new and approved initiatives. 
• Manage and lead IDEA intake process collecting key data elements to enable approval, prioritization, and drive them through the process.
• Drive prioritization of the initiatives with product managers/owners ensuring engineering has clear visibility to the approved initiatives with priorities.
• Partner with the Product team ensuring a large backlog is built.
• Enable visibility to the portfolio health for each portfolio, raising any risks or issues proactively.
• Enable change management so there is clear alignment to the priorities.
• Enable out of the box reporting from the PPM tool, so KPI information is available and can be consumed as needed.
• Partner with engineering leads ensuring resource and capacity planning is done at every sprint and quarterly manner.
• Establish PPM tool guidelines by aligning alignment with broader organizational leaders.
• Manage PPM tool as an administrator ensuring organization is adhering to the guidelines and lead the PPM tool migration to new tool.
• Build required processes, templates, training, and mentorship to the team in partnership with other PMO team members.
• Communicate roll up of project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner for senior leadership consumption, escalating blocking issues risking milestone delivery.

Must Haves: 

• 7-10+ years of proven experience as a Portfolio Manager (Not Project or Program)
• Experience working across Product, Development, and Business Units
• Experience in Quarterly PI Planning
• Executive reporting (Expert PowerPoint)
• Experience driving Process Improvement
• Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical Field
• PPM tool administration
• Jira experience

Plusses:

• Relevant certifications such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or Agile certifications
• Planview experience
• Jira Align and Confluence experience
• Experience in the Media / AdTech industry