Senior Manager, Project/Portfolio Management

VSP Vision is seeking a Senior Manager for their Portfolio Solutions project management team. The role involves managing stakeholder relationships, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and providing leadership in project planning and execution to ensure successful delivery of projects.

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