Senior Manager, Project/Portfolio Management
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Senior Manager overseeing project management for the Portfolio Solutions team at VSP Vision. Leading operations, managing stakeholders, and driving strategic initiatives while providing project direction.
Responsibilities:
- Provide management for the Portfolio Solutions project management team
- Set the direction for operations and change-the-business initiatives
- Manage changing business needs, resource capacity constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies
- Provide strategic direction and management in maintaining a complex portfolio
- Manage stakeholder relationships with senior-level management across various functions
- Collaborate with cross-functional business units around project planning, resourcing, and delivery
- Collaborate with IT teams and/or external consultants to ensure successful delivery of projects
- Provide leadership in constructing project teams, charters, project plans, contingencies, success metrics, and ROI measurements
- Guide project managers and analysts to ensure project quality and standards are followed
- Regularly interact with sponsors, stakeholders, and executive leadership to meet or exceed project deliverables
- Establish and monitor value metrics to inform decisions that maximize returns across enterprise projects and programs
- Drive business value across all program activities
- Plan, implement, and continuously improve project management best practices
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 1 additional year of experience related to functional area
- Minimum of 3 years of management experience with responsibilities for hiring, training, assigning work, and managing performance of direct reports
- Project-related experience working on multiple concurrent simple to highly complex projects (project manager, business analyst, etc)
- Experience with various project management methodologies, standard concepts, practices, procedures, tools, and/or software packages
- Demonstrates ability to be a decision-maker, showing balanced consideration of business issues
- Ability to influence teams in various divisions toward common goals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Benefits:
- Eligible bonuses and commissions



















