Director of Agile Portfolio Management

16 hours ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States CNA Insurance Full time
Job Summary

CNA Insurance is seeking an experienced Agile Portfolio Management professional to join our team as a Director of Agile Portfolio Management. In this role, you will be responsible for aligning strategy and execution by applying the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to Agile portfolio governance for one or more portfolios.

Key Responsibilities
  • Influence stakeholders towards the SAFe mindset and behaviors
  • Support the establishment of strategy and investment funding, and own ongoing maintenance and reporting
  • Manage relationships and act as liaison between one or more portfolios, client organizations, and other stakeholders from roadmap through benefits realization
  • Collaborate with business, portfolio, and program leaders to manage spending, audit and compliance, forecasting expenses, and measurement for one or more portfolios
  • Promote scaled agility within the team, ensuring adherence to Lean Agile Portfolio Management using the SAFe model for desired outcomes
  • Establish and enforce governance standards, facilitating and consolidating key processes like estimation, forecasting, and planning to enhance the overall delivery model
  • Coordinate and communicate performance and compliance across programs, portfolio leadership, executives, and C-suite leaders
  • Oversee portfolio-level outcomes, initiative lifecycles, and communicate overall portfolio performance, including financials and decision indicators
  • Provide leadership and mentoring on Agile portfolio management best practices, ensuring clarity on responsibilities, authorities, and accountability for all portfolio staff
Requirements
  • Typically reports to PMO Delivery Manager, Director or Above
  • In-depth knowledge of business unit's functions and systems
  • Extensive experience managing across sets of complex programs and functions to create and maintain portfolio-level standards and outcomes, with budgets in excess of $25 million per year
  • Proven experience coaching and mentoring staff in a matrixed organization and providing performance feedback
  • Proven experience successfully managing a portfolio of business and technical resources to ensure alignment
  • Ability to exercise professional judgement and assume responsibility for decisions which have an impact on people, quality of service, and costs
  • Ability to present and contextualize information and data that can be consumed by senior leaders and C-Suite executives
  • Strong experience and understanding of financial management and accounting principles and practice, including Forecasting, Accruals, Reconciliation, Amortization, and Capitalization
  • Understands complex financial concepts and has ability to generate data driven insights to support decision making
  • Proficient knowledge of Agile/DevOps/Program Management Lifecycle Methodologies & Standards
  • Experience understanding, interpreting and executing on an enterprise's financial, technical, and business contexts
  • Senior-level knowledge of technology compliance requirements and financial management practices
  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree with Master's Degree (preferred), in Computer Science, Information Technology, business, or equivalent work experience
  • Typically, a minimum of 10 years' experience managing information systems portfolios or multiple information systems programs
  • Typically, a minimum of five years' experience in an agile / scrum environment with large enterprise standards
  • PMP and/or SAFe LPM certifications preferred but not required with related hands on delivery experience
  • Knowledge and experience using Jira, Confluence, Planview, LucidSpark/Mural and the Microsoft Office suite
  • Typically, a minimum of 10 years' experience in managing portfolio, product and project financial management and accounting principles, including Forecasting, Accruals, Reconciliation, Amortization, and Capitalization
What We Offer

CNA Insurance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the recruitment process.

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