Enterprise Portfolio Manager

Enterprise Portfolio Manager
Job Number: 25-04244

 
Want to be part of the Energy Industry? ECLARO is looking for an Enterprise Portfolio Manager for our client in White Plains, NY. 
 
ECLARO's Client is America's largest state power organization and is a national leader in energy efficiency and clean energy technology. If you’re up to the challenge, then take a chance at this rewarding opportunity!
 
Project Overview:

• The Enterprise Portfolio Management Office has developed a gated decision-making framework for all projects and programs across Client.
• This process provides the company with optimized portfolios of work, in addition to a governed progression of any given proposal across the lifecycle of the asset.
• The Enterprise Portfolio Manager is responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating project and program resources engaged with all initiatives within the selected enterprise portfolio(s).
• This role assumes the overarching responsibility for supporting organizational and leadership in their efforts at overseeing, managing and leveraging the entire life cycle of project and program investments and initiatives to optimally achieve enterprise goals and objectives.

• Assist in reviewing that projects and programs progress from initiation to closeout and review that the investments and initiatives achieve alignment with organizational asset investment strategies, financial targets, and benefits.
• Responsible for overseeing and guiding project/program teams in the comprehensive development of business cases.
• Ensure the adherence to the appropriate governance functions relating to the portfolio and in accordance with the applicable portfolio and project governance guidelines, policies and practices.
• Assist project and program teams navigate the newly implemented enterprise governance process, add consistent methodologies, and enhance communications along the way.
• Prepares portfolio level analysis and reporting of financial control, resource utilization, risk, change management, benefits, unplanned work, etc., compares planned versus actual/forecasted, and examines the impact to the overall business.
• Lead reviews of any significant initiatives, projects or programs that are challenged or out of alignment with assigned portfolio's strategic and/or financial objectives and provide recommendations as to whether it should continue, be significantly changed, placed on hold or discontinued.
• Support the creation and maintenance of a 10-year portfolio plan.
• Responsible for preparing monthly and ad hoc status reports and graphs depicting cost and schedule status/performance and trend analysis. Highlighting issues, conflicts, slippages, accelerations, key milestone movements, etc.
• Conduct continual improvement efforts for the purposes of ensuring portfolio and controls deliverables are accurate, relevant, and useful to key stakeholders.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (MS Word, PowerPoint, Power BI, Excel, and Outlook) is required.
• Financial forecasting and reporting experience required.
• Understanding of GAAP accounting principles and Plant Accounting activity is highly desired.
• Experience with SAP and SharePoint is highly desired.
• Thorough understanding of project/program/portfolio management techniques and methods.
• Adaptive, flexible to change, highly interactive and result-oriented.
• Ability to work as a member of a team and solve complex problems, utilize conflict resolution techniques to assert influence in a continual process improvement environment.
• Ability to work independently, coordinate multiple tasks and exercise time management while meeting non-negotiable deadlines.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas clearly and concisely.
• Possess a customer-centric mindset - extremely responsive to requests.
• Working knowledge of performance evaluation and change management principles.
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level when collaborating with engineers and other technical specialists.
• Ability to make recommendations and inspire change across multiple levels of the organization - from individual engineers and program managers to business unit leaders.
• A "self-starter” approach to tackle a range of issues is essential.

• 401k Retirement Savings Plan administered by Merrill Lynch
• Commuter Check Pretax Commuter Benefits
• Eligibility to purchase Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance through ECLARO