Genesis10 is seeking an Senior Portfolio Project Manager Consultant, Global IT Group for a 6+ month contract position with a reinsurance company located in New York, NY. This is a hybrid position and requires being onsite 3 days per week.
Portfolio Project Manager focused on all projects in IT concurrently, now needs organizing and prioritization. This role works in conjunction with IT Portfolio Mgr.
- Help produce quarterly project prioritization, create system to promote org change
- Work with Agile Team (Note: SAFe certification a plus)
- Guide best practices, KPIs, adherence to business pillars
- Need to be business savvy, diplomatic, able to deal with challenging personalities, comfortable conduction presentations, self-starter, collaborative, confident but flexible
- Tool used is Align – part of Jira – experience with it a plus
- Experience in FinTech and Tech field, insurance not required
- 6-8 years experience in hands-on planning, change management, product and/or project/program management
Summary:
This is a strategic and high visibility role where you will be responsible for intake, prioritization and planning for both horizontal and vertical requirements, including initiatives across different pillars/teams/businesses within the Global IT Group. You will also play a key role in guiding/coaching and recommending best-practice to ensure business efficiency, productivity, value and delivery.
To be successful in this role, you will need to be an effective communicator, highly detailed and organized, have an analytical and logistical mindset and successfully bring Agile Release Train members together and have a shared understanding of Product strategy, vision, and needs and jointly plan for the upcoming quarter.
Role:
- Lead technology pillar leads at both the Vertical (product) and Horizontal (Data, Operations, Platforms) through intake, prioritization processes to ensure requirements are well defined, resources allocated, and deliverables are transparent/tracked.
- Coach teams through making prioritization decisions based on business needs/value, requirement readiness, effort and resource allocations.
- Work through allocations for balancing maintenance/tech debt with business prioritized initiatives with potentially unplanned work for a value-add increment that is right sized based on team-size, needs and confidence to delivery.
- Manage monthly increment check-ins, retros and reporting of progress, blockers, risks/challenges
- Requirements:
- Increment plans, reporting (ongoing)
- Priority Decisions, Transparency
- Reporting, Managing Initiatives through to a Program level through Align/JIRA
- Providing coaching and tracking on areas for improvement, refinement
Required Skills/Expertise:
- Increment Planning Experience/skills
- Increment Planning Coaching
- Agile/SAFe Product Delivery, Cross-Functional Prioritization
- Cross-Team intake processes
- Enterprise Solution Delivery, Reporting
- Product Increment Planning Hard Skills
- Deep experience with JIRA (Epics, Stories/Tasks), Align (Program Management) and Miro (Increment Planning/Intake)
Genesis10:
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
