Avp, Portfolio Management

**Job Description**:
We are looking for an**_ AVP, Portfolio Management & Governance_**

Our Infrastructure & Operations Technology group (I&O) is looking to hire an Assistant Vice-President, Portfolio Management & Governance (PM&G) who will report to the SVP & CTO.

Through progressively developing highly effective and sustainable program and project strategies, resource management capabilities, work management and ways of working techniques and methodologies, this role will enable and drive continuous improvement for I&O’s services and products fulfilment capability.

In leading a team of professionals, championing modern ways of working and collaborating closely with other leaders, this role ensures ongoing visibility and management of work effort, priorities, and backlog for I&O across all program and initiative types.

**What you will do**
- _ Planning_
- Lead the annual I&O planning process for all externally and internally identified needs, resulting in annually published upcoming and multi-year plans for all initiative, BAU and Capital Program work items.
- Establish project dependencies, funding requirements, resource requirements and business impact assessments.
- Support all I&O areas in the development and ongoing maintenance of technology and service roadmaps, to be used as input into the annual I&O planning process.
- _ Intake and Demand Management_
- Establish I&O intake methods, working with other IT areas, and business areas as applicable, ensuring all externally driven work enters I&O in a structured manner.
- Facilitate the prioritization of new work items and rebalance the portfolio of work as required to adjust for new unplanned work that has a high priority
- Ensure effective cross I&O resource management by establishing active work management methods and reporting, providing support to resource managers, and ensuring the sustainment of ongoing work management practices.
- _ Delivery Leadership and Oversight_
- Direct the portfolios of I&O annual delivery work in alignment with Canada Technology strategies, goals and objectives.
- Ensure delivery of programs and projects in accordance with approved budgets, scope, schedule, benefits, and quality measures.
- Ensure regular reporting of work progress and status, including return to green plans for projects that are deviating from approved baseline.
- Articulately present program and project material required for stakeholder decision making.
- Manage the overall delivery budget and provide detailed spend / expense data for the purpose of tracking, prioritization, and decision making.
- Facilitate proper prioritization, issue escalation and stakeholder decision making, through leadership of the Steering Committee(s).
- _ Methods_
- Lead the development, adoption, and support of modern work methods including Scrum and Kanban across I&O and in I&O’s interaction with other areas driving continual fulfilment improvements.
- Ensure alignment and adherence to Company provided delivery methodologies and initiative governance through adoption into I&O practices and ways of working. Support all I&O areas in adhering to such provided methods, including the development of stage gate deliverables, business cases, establishing work priorities, securing funding, providing progress reports and aligning work based on demand / capacity.
- Partner with the Office of the CIO to ensure that the methodology is known and understood and executed by all practitioners.
- Establish methodologies required by I&O for successful execution of its mandate where Company provided delivery methodologies are not
- Serve as process owner, control owner and / or operator as required.
- _ Unit leadership_
- Provide people management to the Portfolio Management & Governance team.
- Establish and manage the annual operating budget for the Portfolio Management & Governance team and adhere to appropriate cost optimization and expense management practices

**Experience Required**:

- A post-secondary degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- 10+ years of experience working in a large, complex enterprise organization.
- Demonstrated experience utilizing agile ways of working including Scrum and Kanban considered an asset
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with IT infrastructure including on-premise and cloud environments, modern architecture, product models and Dev Ops considered an asset
- Demonstrated experience with IT financial management practicing including Technology Business Management considered an asset

**Capabilities**:

- Demonstrated high level of innovation and the ability to utilize and implement best practices, as well as creating new ways of working
- Demonstrated ability to lead changes brought about by the implementation of new technologies and the impact on the organization and its people and processes
- Finding the right balance between building relationships and driving necessary change
- Creative problem solver with