IT Portfolio Senior Manager

Leidos' Chief Information Office (CIO) is in search of an IT Portfolio Senior Manager to to join our Project Management Office team. As a core member of the team, you will play a valuable part in leading a comprehensive and collaborative portfolio management practice, as well as overseeing the management and delivery of multiple projects within the CIO Project Management Office. This role is crucial for ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, optimizing organizational resource utilization, maintaining effective stakeholder relationships, and driving the successful execution of projects. The Senior IT Portfolio Manager will lead a team of project managers and other contributing professionals, ensuring alignment with business goals and fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and overall excellence within the PMO team.

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As the global CIO Services organization, we enable the enterprise to execute its mission to grow through innovation, collaboration, and effective use of information and technology. Through our world class talent and technology, we will provide differentiated and agile services, partnering with the enterprise to strategically transform, defend and grow the business, developing and implementing solutions that we can use to support our customers' mission.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Portfolio Oversight: Manage and oversee multiple concurrent IT projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and objectives.
• Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of project managers and other contributing professionals through performance targets, regular reviews, and professional development, ensuring high performance and retention.
• Resource Optimization: Optimize resource allocation across projects to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and execute effective strategies to engage stakeholders at all levels, and maintain effective relationships to ensure thorough management of stakeholder expectations.
• Risk and Issue Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies across projects.
• Performance Monitoring: Maintain, monitor, and regularly report portfolio performance through key performance indicators and metrics.
• Process Improvement: Develop and continually improve toolkits, templates, processes, and governance within the project management methodologies to drive effective and efficient project delivery.
• Budget Management: Oversee the financial aspects of the project portfolio, ensuring projects are delivered within budget.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, or a related field and 8+ years of experience in IT project/portfolio management, with at least 4 years supervising or leading teams or projects.
• Broad experience mentoring, coaching, and developing diverse project delivery talent.
• Strong understanding of portfolio management methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex topics in simple terms with all levels of the organization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• US citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Information Technology, or a related field.
• PMP, PgMP, PfMP or other relevant project management certifications.
• In-depth knowledge of PMI PMBOK and Agile frameworks, including Scrum and SAFe agile, with practical experience operating these frameworks in an enterprise environment.  Additional experience in systems engineering and organizational change management valued.
• Proven experience with ServiceNow, Microsoft Project (and Project Online), SharePoint, and Power Platforms (PowerBI, Power Automate, and Power Apps).

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.