Grainger

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grainger is a leading broad line distributor serving millions of customers worldwide. They are seeking a Senior Manager of Portfolio Management to oversee IT investments and programs, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and improving customer experience across digital channels. Responsibilities • Orchestrate portfolio management processes throughout the lifecycle, including demand management, resource management, execution, and financial management. There is heavy emphasis on identifying and quantifying the impact of decisions required to accommodate new demand • Understand the project ask, gather requirements and definitions, and dive into root cause of the problem being solved including processes and potential business improvements and ensure all initial stages of project are met (requirements, design, funding) • Ensure project delivery, including coordination of ceremonies and issue resolution. Manage communication to all groups including your team, peripheral teams, and executive sponsors • Accomplish financial goals by getting approvals from business and IT partners through building a business case, describing value creation, submitting accurate monthly forecasts, managing the budget through forecasting requirements, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective action • Work with global, senior level leaders to help translate business strategies into technical project execution - operating at both the strategic and tactical level to manage team member expectations and perceptions • Interpret our challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, or services • Lead others to identify creative solutions • Capture and voice the IT Portfolio Roadmap. Identify dependencies and conflicts and resolve them • Provide consolidated list of requirements to engineering teams • Describe value of the project via creation of a financial business case or other mediums and highlight tracking to ensure value was captured upon project completion • Contribute towards achievement of customer, operational, project or service goals; work is guided by functional policies Skills • Bachelor's Degree BA/BS in Computer Science or similar subject or equivalent experience required • 7+ years 8+ years in IT product or portfolio management or project management required • Experience managing large IT bodies of work from ideation through delivery • Experience operating in an agile/scrum context • Solid ability to translate technical verbiage into easily understandable language for non-technical audiences • Ability to communicate difficult concepts and encourage others to adopt a different point of view • Oversee dependencies across the programs within the portfolio; identify and reduce risks or promote the escalation of such Benefits • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing. • 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year. • 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required. • Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools. • Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents. Company Overview • As a leading business-to-business organization, more than 4.5 million customers worldwide rely on Grainger for products in categories such as safety, material handling and metalworking, along with services like inventory management and technical support. It was founded in 1927, and is headquartered in Savannah, Georgia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.grainger.com.