Smith & Nephew Looking for Senior Manager, Global IT Portfolio Management at Kharadi, Pune, Maharashtra Full Time

This role, within the IT function, reports into the Director, IT Portfolio & Project Management Office (PPMO), operation optimization and IT Strategy, Portfolio Management Process.

Role focuses in creation and management of IT investment portfolios and the upstream mobilization, creation and assembly of the IT enabled business-IT strategies from which those investment items are generated.

The Strategy Manager will have a history of leading IT strategy processes and crafting associated work you’re doing for multi-million $ investment portfolios spanning international geographies and enterprise capabilities, from R&D, Data Analytics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Marketing and Sales through to Customer Support

Strategic Plan ITSP:
Manage Strategy Process: Working with IT Senior Leadership and IT Business Relationship Managers develop and operate a process to develop the cascade business outcomes, through business strategy & capability, and then to business, IT initiatives required to deliver those outcomes / value. Ensure the strategy process is equally fit-for-purpose for product, waterfall and agile funded initiatives.

Portfolio Management POMG:
Support Strategy Results: Working with the CIO, VP ET IT, Director PPM and other senior IT leaders support and enable the process of IT Strategy definition and documentation, including developing data analysis in support of crafting a practical and investable strategy.

Methods and Tools METL:
Lead the Portfolio Investment Plan: Develop maintain a rolling 3-year portfolio of all IT Capital and Project Operational Investments able to operate with monthly granularity and with formal quarterly re-base lining and both quarter and annual planning views. Maintain risk and opportunity analysis.

Benefits Management BENM:
Value Realisation: Develop and implement processes for value lever identification, value quantification, value measurement (direct / proxy) and post-delivery value realization auditing.

Further detailed responsibilities include:
Develop process documentation and train all required staff.

Measure and implement process alignment.

Build and lead change control for the CAPEX and project OPEX (SAAS) portfolio.

Maintain a quarterly update cadence for the portfolio baseline including change requests and an overall risk / opportunity (R&O) schedule.

Work with PMOs and IT Finance support to deliver accurate forecasts and measure / implement / improve forecast accuracy.

Liaise with IT ‘verticals’ in the creation of area roadmaps and the integration / fit of those into the overall enterprise IT portfolio.

Ensure IT ‘verticals’ drive initiatives down from business outcomes > strategy > capability > initiatives > IT enablement and investments.

Critically test cases.

Collaborating closely with Enterprise Architecture critically test solution investment proposals.

Develop and consolidate ‘vertical’ roadmaps, overall business strategy and IT technology direction into an annually updated IT strategy paper.

Maintain distinct investment analyses for improvement, project, programme and product funding.

Maintain run vs. grow vs. transform investment analysis.

Ensure completeness and accuracy of all investment metadata (e.g. achievements for phase transitions) and maintain a forward schedule of change which can be used to plan activity outside IT (e.g. legal / procurement).

Develop and complete process to bring together realised value and compare to committed targets, including quarterly release cycles.

Operate and lead (product owner) tooling to automate the above process

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate these capabilities:

Internal Relationships Function as regular collaborate with the core and extended IT Leadership Team. Act as point leadership and mentoring for all IT vertical teams and IT Management regardless of area of responsibility.

External Relations: Partner with PMO and inter-dependent functions to ensure process alignment where possible and planning efficiency.

Financial / Value Analysis: For oversight of a portfolio exceeding $80M and as such requires excellent financial skills including spreadsheet and reporting analysis.

Organization Influence: With good interpersonal skills and communication, the job holder must be viewed as a highly trusted leader with business and IT leadership and win the confidence of individuals at all levels within the organization

Requirements

Education: Minimum Bachelor’s degree level, preferably Masters level, in an IT and/or Finance / Business field, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Licenses / Certifications: PMP or other PMI certification preferred

Experience: Ideally candidates should demonstrate significant experience working as a strategy analyst / manager.

Must have experience / capabilities in the following key areas:

Experience handling investment portfolios.

Experience leading strategy processes.

Financial analysis experience.

Superb communication, interpersonal, leadership skill.

Ideally with additional experience in one or more of the following areas:

Experience with teams of various sizes and both co-located and geographically distributed teams.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Upbeat, responsible, organized, and dedicated and able to work with minimal direction.

Experience in building consensus and selling ideas.

Physical Demands: None

Travel Requirements: 10–25%