Portfolio Manager Job Centurion area,South Africa,Management

Closing Date
2023/03/31

Reference NumberMMH
221101-2

Job Title Portfolio Manager Position Type Permanent Role Family Operations Cluster Momentum Insure Company Limited Remote Opportunity Some of the time Location - Country South Africa Location - Province Gauteng Location - Town / City Centurion Introduction

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilising new platforms Momentum Metropolitan provides practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses. Visit us at

Role Purpose

The Agile Portfolio Manager will provide oversight to portfolio level value-driven governance for agile product deliveries across Momentum Insure. The position will play a crucial role in ensuring that all initiatives are aligned to the Momentum Insure’s business strategy and meet short/long term business needs and value expectations.

This person will also drive portfolio-level information delivery and provide value risk oversight by partnering with product owners, product managers and project managers to define, analyze, and report on portfolio-level initiatives and business risks, metrics, and information related to value delivery

Requirements

Experience and Qualifications

Qualifications

Relevant B-degree or Diploma (essential)

Relevant M-degree (desirable)

Relevant Project Management Certification (desirable)

Knowledge of relevant Project Management software and tools

Knowledge of Project Management lifecycle, from conception to close-out

Knowledge of agile methodology

Knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)

Knowledge of products administered by the business unit will be an advantage

Experience

7+ years’ experience in a dedicated project management position (essential)

Experience with managing large-scale programmes from conceptualization to close-out (essential)

Experience with managing a portfolio of work

3 – 5 years in a senior management position (desirable)

Business experience – understanding of business and business processes

Proficient understanding of the Insurance industry

Duties & Responsibilities

Portfolio management

Ensure that the organization’s business and financial objectives and strategic goals are clearly articulated and accessible.

Investigate the feasibility of initiatives in support of business strategy and objectives

Facilitate, with the business executive team, initiative selection/approval and strategic prioritization to ensure maximum value to the business and prioritization of risk and compliance initiative.

Maintain the overall business portfolio, with timeous inclusion of initiatives being implemented in the product/agile delivery teams.

Ensure cross-product dependencies are managed

Establish and implement metrics to measure the effectiveness of initiatives in line with goals and key performance indicators

Ensuring the portfolio is meeting the stated goals and objectives and delivering on the expected return on investment

When needed, highlight initiatives that could be terminated/stopped that are no longer contributing to the overall business strategy and objectives

Creating reporting documentation to communicate progress and other portfolio metrics.

Resource Management:
Collaborate with line managers to ensure the team is properly staffed with the right capacity and competencies to deliver on initiatives and when needed facilitate the (re-)allocating of resources throughout the life cycle of the portfolio.

Oversee the achievement and risk “blockers” related to product deliveries

Partner with product teams to review lean business cases, linking business benefits to investments for funding and allocation requests

Ensure agile principles and practices are applied consistently

Oversee the…


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