Vp Enterprise Portfolio Enablement

**VP Enterprise Portfolio Enablement**

As a seasoned leader, you’re known for leading and operating with a thoughtful, collaborative approach. You’re a relationship builder who works effectively with people at all levels. Setting up and working with cross-functional teams to develop solutions-oriented decisions and dynamic strategies is part of your expertise. Communicating potentially complex thoughts, ideas, and material effectively to staff and stakeholders alike comes easily to you.

You can shift from big picture to detail effortlessly and use your planning and organizational skills to achieve multiple objectives in a logical sequence. Highly analytical, you’re able to understand your audiences to work at the enterprise level with senior technical and business leaders and stakeholders across the company to enable business outcomes. You can lead through change with operational rigor and build and execute our integrated technical roadmap. A strategic thought leader with highly effective business planning leadership, you lead key strategic initiatives and facilitate the execution of projects.

**About Vancity**

Vancity is a member-owned credit union built on the principles of inclusion and social justice. A relentless commitment to their values has helped them challenge the status quo and break down barriers since day one in 1946. They have bold commitments to make Vancity net-zero by 2040 across all mortgages and loans and are pursuing strategies on Indigenous banking and to improve the financial resilience of their members.

**About the workplace**

This role will enjoy hybrid working arrangements which can be fulfilled primarily from the Vancity head office location and your Lower Mainland based home office. Periodically, you’ll be required to attend in-person activities or events.

**A typical day would involve**:

- Develops, maintains, and optimizes the strategic business technology roadmap for the organization in collaboration with other senior leaders based on organizational direction and strategy.
- Leads the organization in the development of new strategies to optimize the way we work between business, product, and technology to improve value realization.
- Develops and implements appropriate agile value realization and delivery governance processes, including efficient engagement models, planning and prioritization processes.
- Provides thought leadership in portfolio planning and efficiency improvements.
- Partners with Finance to develop an annual Technology operating and investment plan including funding envelopes for the organization that will meet current and future business goals.
- Leads the financial reporting, forecasting and optimization of technology spend by collaborating with senior leaders within the organization, and in close partnership with Finance leaders.
- Reviews current processes across demand management, EPMO and ITS financial management and establishes a portfolio driven IT management framework to manage ITS as a business.
- Develops and implements an insight driven framework built on the premise of ‘Balanced Scorecard’ across metrics, dashboards to demonstrate business problems, solutions, benefits, and accurate decisions.
- Conducts business service reviews with IT functional leaders to identify areas of improvement and establish plans for continuous improvement.
- Leads the PMO team to ensure timely execution and delivery of Initiatives while implementing best in class project management & Agile concepts and processes to improve efficiency.
- Manages and oversees cross-functional projects and initiatives related to product/technology exploration and acceleration while ensuring technology effectiveness across business units.
- Develops and maintains the Agile operating model, including objectives and key results (OKRs) and critical metrics, and matures the Agile mindset and capability of the organization by mobilizing and expanding the Agile operating model.
- Acts as a trusted advisor and builds and maintains relationships with other leaders and executives to develop a clear understanding of business needs; ensures cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs and can respond with agility to changing industry priorities.
- Acts as a change agent and ensure best practices and improvements through the product lifecycle.
- Develops and manages both internal and external CTIO Office communications in a way that demonstrates a deep understanding of message content and impact on the intended audience.
- Collaborates with the CTIO to set the mission and vision for the department to foster a business-first service oriented high-performance culture.
- Optimizes efficiency across the organization by setting up and leading a cross functional CoE for digitization and automation, including progress tracking, with the objective of removing barriers to work.

**You have**:

- Completion of a university degree in the field of business, project management or