Your day to day:

A key supporting role to ensure delivery is aligned with strategy and to optimise the flow of value through the portfolio over the short and longer term. The role holder will work with the Portfolio Management team to establish portfolio flow, balance funding allocation, and employ dynamic forecasting and prioritisation to optimise time to market for a portfolio.  
The LPS role is a key part of the management structure of a product portfolio.  It facilitates the governance of the portfolio and ensures that the governance is completed according to LPM principles best practice.  It is the portfolio subject matter expert (SME) for Lean Portfolio Mgt., and thus ensuring the correct implementation of best practice of governance processes, portfolio ceremonies, the use of tooling and the definition of the portfolio data.  The role may lead the implementation of LPM and will monitor and coach on the above topics to ensure full adoption and maintenance of the portfolio mgt.  standards. The role owns all of the assurance of the portfolio artefacts, issues and data and drive correction where necessary. 

With these activities you will have a great impact on our business:

1.    Defines and maintains JIRA Portfolio Structure, based on portfolio roadmap from LPM
2.    As the portfolio’s LPM SME, ensures portfolio stakeholders correctly apply lean portfolio management methodology and correctly use JIRA:
•    Training and coaching of portfolio stakeholders;
•    Assurance of RAIDs, governance artefacts and key data points E2E over portfolio flow: analyse data and drive correction, including status report delivery
•    Ensures correct execution of portfolio mgt. events (e.g. Portfolio Sync, SI/PI Planning, Demand Review, LPM and delivery daily stand-ups, SOS - scrum of scrums). 
•    Periodical assessment on overall portfolio delivery KPIs (velocity & efficiency – PowerBI & JIRA)
3.    Drives continuous improvement in the application of methodologies and tools to portfolio governance, shares best practice
4.    Being the primary delegated authority of LPM when they are not available
5.    Will be flexible in completing these tasks for different portfolios and different maturity stages.

With these skills you are a great candidate:

•    Able to communicate and drive outcomes effectively over multiple seniorities/roles/teams in a large matrix organisation
•    Able to constructively challenge and coach
•    Deep knowledge the SAFe Framework
•    Experience of working in an Agile organisation in a Portfolio mgt. function or Solution Team. 
•    Able to organise their time over multiple work streams and conflicting priorities
•    Self-starter able to work independently and remotely 
•    Ability to analyse data to see trends and make mitigation recommendations
•    Ability to present to senior mgt.

Must have technical /professional qualifications: 
•    JIRA and Confluence – advanced understanding of tool features
•    MS PowerBI – proficiency in developing and modifying visuals and measures 
•    Knowledge of Agile frameworks, eg SAFe, Scrum, Kanban 
•    SAFe, PMP, MSP or Prince2 
•    Expert in MS Office Suite

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:

•    Hybrid way of working
•    Medical and dental services 
•    Life and hospitalization insurance 
•    Dedicated employee phone subscription 
•    Special discounts for gyms and retailers 
•    Annual Company Bonus 
•    Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills  
•    You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology 
•    Getting in on the ground floor of a technology changing company 
•    Flexible Vacation – Take time off when you need it, we trust you  
•    Special Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave

 

We recognize and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workplace so that we are as diverse as the customers and communities we serve. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, color, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social or marital status. 

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? We are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job advert, we encourage you to apply as you may be just the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help see how your skills fit in.  
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