Love's Travel Stops
IT Project Portfolio Manager
Love's Travel Stops, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73116
BASIC PURPOSE : The basic purpose of the IT Project Portfolio Manager is to manage business unit portfolio(s) of IT projects through a team of project managers, ensuring an effective and consistent experience in support of project intake and delivery. This position oversees multiple technology projects varying in size and complexity and is the conduit between project teams and business units.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Serve as an ongoing steward of a defined work intake and work portfolio management process, ensuring the project lifecycle follows consistent, repeatable patterns from intake to closure.
Uphold, tune, and mature an intake process and portfolio management pipeline that meets the needs of business unit and IT leadership.
Define projects, identify expected outcomes, establish timelines, and assign project staff.
Drive early collaboration of multi-disciplinary teams in the intake, evaluation, and initiation of projects.
Coordinate the sequencing and timing of projects based on intra-team and cross-functional resource constraints and dependencies.
Serve as an advocate and educator of Portfolio Management as a strategic discipline to business leaders and IT.
Maintain in-depth understanding of project and portfolio data and translate that information into actionable insights for senior leadership.
Plan and facilitate monthly, quarterly, and annual key IT Portfolio status overviews and deep dive sessions.
Monitor performance of projects within the portfolio and report on portfolio objectives.
Gather various elements of project performance data and routinely aggregate, tune, and report such to the portfolio owners, stakeholders, and leadership.
Foster adoption of new processes, frameworks, and tools supporting IT Portfolios.
Perform ongoing application and product portfolio assessment alongside technical and business leads to define and prioritize opportunities for portfolio improvement.
Ensure projects are completed on time and within quality standards.
Other duties as assigned, which may include Project Management and resource/capacity planning.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Education:
Typically requires a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years experience.
Experience:
8+ years of project management in waterfall or agile frameworks. Minimum of 3 years of experience managing IT project portfolios in blended Agile and traditional PPM environments delivering strategic and complex programs in a fast-paced environment. Strong experience managing multiple parallel efforts and delivering quality deliverables on schedule. Project scheduling, decision making, and management skills with the ability to mentor others. Experience with Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools and Product road-mapping tools. Project Management and Agile certifications preferred, but not required: PMP, PMI, ITIL 4 Foundations, CSM, CSPO, SAFe, etc.
SKILLS AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Skills:
Strong soft skills and executive presence to communicate up to executive leadership and across the organization. Analytical skill set to analyze project and portfolio data as well as develop reports, dashboards, and analytics to support. Proven ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships across IT and Business leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. Skilled in coaching and mentoring program and project managers. Ability to work effectively across multiple stakeholder groups and build team cohesiveness. Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
Typical Physical Demands:
Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping. Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds. Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator. Requires normal range of hearing and vision.
Job Function(s):
Information Technology Loves Travel Stops & Country Stores is the industry-leading travel stop network in the United States. For more than 55 years, weve provided customers with highway hospitality and Clean Places, Friendly Faces. Were passionate about serving drivers with clean, modern facilities stocked with fuel, food, and supplies. We offer meals from popular restaurant chains, trucking supplies, showers, and everything needed to get back on the road quickly. About the company
Since 1964, Loves has been known for Clean Places, Friendly Faces, and we strive to find employees who will help us continue to uphold our standards. With our store team, you have a great opportunity. Start on the front line. Grow to the top. Join a team of great people who care. The Love family understands the hard work a job like this requires. They built this company from the ground up, and they did so from the same shoes our store teams are standing in. It takes hard work, integrity, and customer focus. If you excel in all three, there is no limit to what you can achieve on our team. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Typically requires a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years experience.
Experience:
8+ years of project management in waterfall or agile frameworks. Minimum of 3 years of experience managing IT project portfolios in blended Agile and traditional PPM environments delivering strategic and complex programs in a fast-paced environment. Strong experience managing multiple parallel efforts and delivering quality deliverables on schedule. Project scheduling, decision making, and management skills with the ability to mentor others. Experience with Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools and Product road-mapping tools. Project Management and Agile certifications preferred, but not required: PMP, PMI, ITIL 4 Foundations, CSM, CSPO, SAFe, etc.
SKILLS AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Skills:
Strong soft skills and executive presence to communicate up to executive leadership and across the organization. Analytical skill set to analyze project and portfolio data as well as develop reports, dashboards, and analytics to support. Proven ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships across IT and Business leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. Skilled in coaching and mentoring program and project managers. Ability to work effectively across multiple stakeholder groups and build team cohesiveness. Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
Typical Physical Demands:
Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping. Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds. Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator. Requires normal range of hearing and vision.
Job Function(s):
Information Technology Loves Travel Stops & Country Stores is the industry-leading travel stop network in the United States. For more than 55 years, weve provided customers with highway hospitality and Clean Places, Friendly Faces. Were passionate about serving drivers with clean, modern facilities stocked with fuel, food, and supplies. We offer meals from popular restaurant chains, trucking supplies, showers, and everything needed to get back on the road quickly. About the company
Since 1964, Loves has been known for Clean Places, Friendly Faces, and we strive to find employees who will help us continue to uphold our standards. With our store team, you have a great opportunity. Start on the front line. Grow to the top. Join a team of great people who care. The Love family understands the hard work a job like this requires. They built this company from the ground up, and they did so from the same shoes our store teams are standing in. It takes hard work, integrity, and customer focus. If you excel in all three, there is no limit to what you can achieve on our team. #J-18808-Ljbffr