Portfolio Management Consultant

Portfolio Management Consultant

Duration: 6 months with likely extension to 1 year or beyond. Potential conversion to consulting employee for HumanXP

Location:

Westside (bw8 and i10). Global client, some travel. Mostly remote work from home with some in office time required. Houston candidates preferred. Focus: IT Finance planning and tracking

• Provide for the implementation and continuous improvement of IT project and portfolio management.
• Collaborate and coordinate with business partners and all IT resource managers.
• Plan and direct the activities of employees who perform project management and/or business analysis functions.
• Create and refine project management methodology for a specific functional area in alignment with the overall IT organizational project management methodology and Project Management Organization ("PMO") practices.
• Manage an IT portfolio for the functional organization and facilitate IT project initiation and IT portfolio analysis and planning.
• Work with the IT PMO to triage project evaluation requests and drive the adjusted funds from operations impact of the overall project portfolio.
• Gather information needed to create and balance the portfolio, make recommendations based on analysis, and report progress to business partners at all levels.
• Lead a team that facilitates the project initiation or projection prioritization and portfolio review meetings for internal triage within the functional group and report outcomes back to the PMO.
• Develop and maintain measurements of project success and impact. Collect and analyze measurements with a view towards reporting these to management.
• Plan, manage, and monitor efforts to remedy customer dissatisfaction, on both a proactive and reactive basis.
• Promote IT capabilities, services, and tools to business partners.