Senior Manager, Project/Portfolio Management

VSP Vision is a company focused on providing vision care solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Manager for their Project/Portfolio Management team. The role involves managing the Portfolio Solutions project management team, overseeing operations and initiatives, and ensuring successful project delivery through collaboration with various business units and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Demonstrated organizational change management experience