Senior Director, Portfolio Management - Technology

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McKesson Technology (MT) has Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) which is a centralized function to 1) enable consistent portfolio management 2) build and mature project and program management capabilities and 3) drive project management rigor and standards to enable value realization from investments.

This role will be a key member of the EPMO leadership team. The individual will be responsible for leading a team of portfolio leads and serve as an overall portfolio lead for MT Acceleration Program. The individual in this role will need to be able to operate within a high level of ambiguity, remain calm under pressure and help establish structure and focus.

What You'll Do:

• Drive portfolio intake process and prioritization meetings with cross functional partners and influence across teams to ensure alignment with the strategy and achieve business goals.
• Lead and facilitate creation of baseline financials for new initiatives in partnership with service managers, ensuring clarity and alignment with key stakeholders.
• Monitor and track the portfolio health, progress, and interdependencies with other teams, and identifies impacts and recommends sequencing of the work.
• Drive connectivity between delivery teams, finance partners and other portfolio leads, influencing decisions to achieve successful business outcomes.
• Understand capacity constraints across the delivery teams, drive visibility and facilitate alignment of priorities and trade-offs needed.
• Establish and facilitate regular portfolio reviews to ensure visibility to execution progress, financials, capacity challenges, project risks and outcomes/value.
• Analyzes data on projects, resources, and workloads and derives actionable insights for the service managers and the senior leadership. Ensure quality and accuracy of portfolio data within the portfolio tool.
• A critical element is executive communication. You will be expected to flex between tactical project level conversations and strategic portfolio conversations and adapt communication to the audience.
• Drive adoption of the portfolio tool with assigned teams, by providing communication and support on processes and expectations.
• Provide aggregate reporting on portfolio health and prepare information for executive presentations in a digestible and crisp format.
• Establish structure, clarity and connect the dots across multiple teams, while employing standard ways of working with other portfolio leads.

What We're Looking For:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 13+ years of related experience, with at least 6 years of people leadership experience.

Critical Skills/Experience:

• Experience:
  • Typically requires 13 + years of experience, with 6+ years of people leadership experience.
  • Requires at least 5+ years of program and/or portfolio management experience.
  • Requires at least 3+ years of experience within a technology focused area (digital transformation, application development, data analytics, infrastructure, etc.)

• Critical Skills & Experiences:
  • Program management leadership experience, both directly leading large programs (not project management) and program/project managers.
  • Experience working with a vendor, establishing governance, process & SLAs/KPIs.
  • Experience overseeing large portfolios and driving strategic alignment, prioritization, managing their investments & value realization, preferably within technology space, but general technology experience coupled with business portfolio management is acceptable.
  • Experience delivering results by collaborating and influencing business and technology delivery teams in a highly matrixed organization.
  • Exceptional executive presentation, communication, and influence management skills.
  • Proven stakeholder management skills & building credibility with executive leadership.
  • Ability to intentionally flex between strategy and detail and adapt style to different levels of the organization.
  • Experience driving organizational transformation and change management.
  • Ability to make complex concepts simple and convey it laymen's terms.
  • Demonstrated ability to establish collaborative relationships and move with speed while bringing people along.
  • High degree of emotional maturity and ability to remain calm and focused under pressure.

• Additional Knowledge & Skills desired but not required
  • Experience working in large matrixed organizations is highly desirable.
  • Experience working with portfolio tools (Planview, etc.) is desirable.
  • Experience in a highly regulated industry is desirable.
  • Certification(s) in SAFe Agile, Prince2 / APM, PMP and/or Lean Six Sigma desirable.

• Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, pleaseclick here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

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