Vice President, IT Portfolio and Project Management Office

Description

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Qualifications

The Vice President, IT Portfolio and Project Services is a key member of the IT Business Partnership and Planning leadership team and is responsible for the effectiveness and delivery of demand management, portfolio management, project management, governance and quality management of IT projects for a portfolio exceeding $200M annually across the enterprise. This position functions as the strategic business leader of this area and will directly provide leadership to teams responsible for engaging stakeholders to prioritize IT demand, create and maintain a portfolio metrics, establish, implement, and maintain enterprise project management methodologies, and establish, implement and maintain a quality assurance program for the IT portfolio. This organization provides project management oversight for the IT organization to facilitate the delivery of all IT initiatives within established budgets and timeframes. .

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

• Fifteen or more years’ experience in the IT and/or consulting industry, demonstrating progressive career growth and a pattern of exceptional performance, as well as the ability to lead and manage teams steeped in portfolio and project management.
• Experience leading successful, complex, cross-discipline initiatives required
• 4 year degree from an accredited university in Business Administration or related major.

Preferred Experience:

• Expertise and proven track record in managing complex, multifunctional initiatives
• Experience in providing direction and performing responsibilities via influence ability
• Proven success in introducing major change to complex organizations
• Exceptional project/program management competence and skills
• Ability to distribute, assign and ensure completion of work throughout various teams without direct management authority
• Ability to influence others, including those at senior organizational levels
• Strong analytical skills for planning, estimating, budgeting and monitoring program/project work
• Ability to form and foster high performing teams
• Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships and effective controls
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy to understand business terms
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Graduate/post graduate degree
  
  CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
  
  Leading Teams to Deliver Projects and Programs
• Leads the IT Portfolio and Project Services to create and manage an effective initiative prioritization process across the stakeholder landscape.
• Develops and leads a highly functioning team that leverages project management expertise, best practices and analytics to deliver strategic initiatives on-time and on-budget. Serves as the final review for key initiatives to ensure alignment with broader portfolio and to identify potential conflicts/barriers/risks to implementation
• Participates in high-profile, cross-discipline project teams responsible for ongoing development of discipline IT roadmaps to inform demand management and project prioritization
• Provides leadership to the enterprise’s internal project management team
• Develops IT’s PM center of excellence including identifying and linking existing project management resources within the organization, establishing and communicating best practices, and coordinating project management resources to ensure optimal deployment against priorities.
• Partners with senior executives to assess project management effectiveness and to foster integration and adoption of new tools and processes
• Provides expertise on the creation of a centralized PMO, Governance, and Quality function, utilizing best-practices and tools, and leveraging existing forums (e.g. PM Community of Practices) and establishing new forums as necessary
• Supervises all aspects of department performance. Determines the priorities, goals, plans and resources to ensure delivery of effective project and portfolio management function. Sets goals and expectations for direct reports using the performance review process.
• Makes and executes the necessary decisions to keep moving forward toward achievement of goals.
• Creates a synergistic leadership team and environment that consistently delivers positive results and continuously strives to improve these results. Provides targeted and timely communication of results, achievements and challenges to direct reports, peers, and leaders.
• Inspires and motivates team to achieve operational excellence. Communicates a clear and consistent message regarding goals to produce desired results.
• Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates the quality of the teams’ operations to ensure a flexible and scalable organization aimed at providing “best in class” business consultancy and project management to support the BMSC Corporate and Continent initiatives globally.
  
  Develops and Enables Project Management Capabilities
• Defines and implements an enterprise Project Management methodology to facilitate seamless delivery of IT initiatives. Evolves methodologies to meet changing delivery landscapes and priorities.
• Leads the development and implementation of tools and processes to manage:
  • Project risks and interdependences
  • Benefits realization
  • Project estimates and costs
  • Resources and metrics
• Leads the effort to design a risk management approach; and establishes processes to manage adherence to risk management processes.
• Works with teams facilitate the development of actionable work plans, deployment models, and resource allocations to achieve operational priorities; partners with leaders to ensure project teams are deployed effectively to support the execution of projects and portfolios.
• Promotes and supports the PM community of practices
• Establishes and implements process to communicate project and MBO performance
• Defines project management roles and the related refinement and management of SDLC waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Identifies key drivers of success and keeps the team focused on those that are critical to achieve results.
• Reviews goals and strategies to ensure alignment with the discipline IT roadmaps.
• Develops and implements strategies that enable IT to deliver products and services to meet or exceed the needs and expectations of the business and employees and provides a profitable return on investment to the company.
  
  Managing Quality & Governance
• Establishes and leads Quality Assurance COE/practice for the IT organization that is responsible for:
• Defining and leading the configuration management efforts to ensure a consistent approach across the enterprise
• Developing and implementing approaches and processes for test and user documentation
• Leading the effort and implementing standard requirements specifications
• Establishes appropriate IT Governance Forums to enable IT effectiveness and process compliance
• Leads the overall IT effectiveness effort
• Ensures that the appropriate metrics and analyses are conducted and that communications protocols are established to keep discipline and IT stakeholders informed
  
  Managing and Conducting Human Resources Activities
• Continuously improves department, program, team, and job structures and ensures clear leadership accountabilities are in place.
• Hires, develops, and retains diverse talent that makes a strong, positive impact on the organization. Anticipates future talent needs.
• Holds leaders accountable for building teams with the appropriate mix of talent and skills to drive innovation and performance. Identifies talents of direct reports and their teams, and assists with their growth and development plans.
• Ensures organizational structures, systems, and processes support business performance and innovation.
• Facilitates regular, ongoing communication in department (e.g., staff meetings).
• Sets goals and expectations for direct reports using the performance review process and holds staff accountable for performance goals.
• Utilizes an “open door policy” and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns.
• Promotes adherence to policies consistently, follows disciplinary procedures and documents items according to internal HR processes.
• Performs other reasonable duties as required for the position.

Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. Marriott International does not discriminate on the basis of disability, veteran status or any other basis protected under federal, state or local laws.