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Dick's Sporting Goods Senior Portfolio Manager (REMOTE) in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.
If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!
OVERVIEW:
At Dick’s Sporting Goods, the Sr. Portfolio Manager role is critical in delivering success for our athletes and teammates and will help to enable and deliver next generation retail technology! This role can be focused on a number of exciting and innovative areas including Ecommerce, Marketing, Omni-channel, Merchandising and Pricing, Supply Chain, Corporate Systems, Security and Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Architecture, and others! If you love to inspire and innovate, please join us!
The Sr. Portfolio Manager leads the planning, oversight, and coordination of all portfolios within or across multiple domain area and facilitates cross domain alignment and coordination as needed. Partners with product managers and others on intake and demand planning. Engages all disciplines across the technology team to facilitate capacity planning and alignment of capacity to demand through planning, prioritization, sequencing of work, and dependency mapping. Utilizes defined practices, tools, and deliverables to track and report on the overall health and progress of delivery against portfolio plans and goals. Ownership for maturing multiple practices, deliverables and/or tools within the portfolio practice. Also acts as a mentor and coach to portfolio managers.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
Portfolio Management
Lead the production and approval and management of portfolio plans to ensure integration of activities across portfolios and domains, appropriately organized to deliver on defined objectives, comply with the organization's approved methodologies, frameworks, and standards and compliance with the organization's wider governance structure and processes.
Drive and mature the activation of annual, quarterly and continuous planning activities across multiple portfolios including managing intake, dependency mapping, prioritization, sequencing of work, and WIP limits.
Act as a strategic though leader by bringing actionable insights and trends as opposed to after the fact reporting.
Specify and lead the delivery of the portfolio review processes to ensure that stakeholders can evaluate progress against plans and agree on change at appropriate points.
Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at portfolio and domain levels. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of commitments within the portfolio, develop and agree recovery plans.
Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across multiple portfolios and domains to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice across assigned portfolio(s).
Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined within portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
Use structured change management methodologies to drive acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.
Interpret business needs and identify solution recommendations to business problems.
Act as SME in portfolio management discipline and develop own and more junior team member capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation where relevant to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
Talent Development
Identify organizational needs and recruit for open positions
Build the Agile practices practice and continuously evolve team process standards to drive quality and efficiencies
Set clear performance standards for teammates
Coach and ensure all teammates are getting the training and education needed to develop professionally
Ongoing Learning and Development:
- Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
Continuous Improvement:
- Review existing operations in own area of work and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure continuous improvements are delivered.
Culture of Innovation
- Define the execution plan to disseminate innovative capabilities across the businesses, helping people develop these competencies and enabling them to innovate through solutions such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's Degree
7-10 years of relevant work experience , with 2-4 years experience in a retail and eCommerce environment.
Experience translating ideas, approaches, and dependencies between technical and functional team members
2-4 years of experience with agile development and deployment practices, agile-based tools and practices
Experience communicating program status, risks, issues, and needs to senior leaders, and managing up
Experience and knowledge in portfolio management best practices, principles, methodologies and tools
Proficient in mentoring and coaching growing team members in a professional setting
Experience managing alignment across programs, projects or product teams in an enterprise environment
Strong communication and presentation skills
Experience managing strategic vendor relationships or acting as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships
Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
Proficient in the planning and execution of programs and projects and risk mitigation strategies
Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
Proficient in program management execution in a modern software environment via multiple methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc)
Strong Experience using Microsoft Office tools (Project, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project)
Experience with lean portfolio management
Strong partnering skills by building effective relationships with business leaders along with the ability to deliver executive-level presentations, briefings, and summaries.
Experience working in or with a product and design teams
Preferred experience with planning/road mapping tools like Aha and Monday.com and Jira Align
Desired Skills:
Good Knowledge of Retail E-Commerce Domain
PMP Certification
Exposure to a CI/CD toolchain
Degree in Organizational Development, Organizational Behavior, or Industrial/Organizational Psychology;
Understanding of modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies
OCM or Change Management Professional Certification
Experience with Agile Development and knowledge on Agile Deployment practices
Good Knowledge of Retail E-Commerce Domain
PMP Certification
Exposure to a CI/CD toolchain
Degree in Organizational Development, Organizational Behavior, or Industrial/Organizational Psychology;
Understanding of modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies
OCM or Change Management Professional Certification
Experience with Agile Development and knowledge on Agile Deployment practices
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Targeted Pay Range: $95,200 - $158,800. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that could include other components such as: incentive, equity and benefits. Individual pay is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and equitable pay. We also offer a generous suite of benefits. To learn more, visit www.benefityourliferesources.com.
Bachelor's Degree
7-10 years of relevant work experience , with 2-4 years experience in a retail and eCommerce environment.
Experience translating ideas, approaches, and dependencies between technical and functional team members
2-4 years of experience with agile development and deployment practices, agile-based tools and practices
Experience communicating program status, risks, issues, and needs to senior leaders, and managing up
Experience and knowledge in portfolio management best practices, principles, methodologies and tools
Proficient in mentoring and coaching growing team members in a professional setting
Experience managing alignment across programs, projects or product teams in an enterprise environment
Strong communication and presentation skills
Experience managing strategic vendor relationships or acting as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships
Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
Proficient in the planning and execution of programs and projects and risk mitigation strategies
Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
Proficient in program management execution in a modern software environment via multiple methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc)
Strong Experience using Microsoft Office tools (Project, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project)
Experience with lean portfolio management
Strong partnering skills by building effective relationships with business leaders along with the ability to deliver executive-level presentations, briefings, and summaries.
Experience working in or with a product and design teams
Preferred experience with planning/road mapping tools like Aha and Monday.com and Jira Align
Desired Skills:
Good Knowledge of Retail E-Commerce Domain
PMP Certification
Exposure to a CI/CD toolchain
Degree in Organizational Development, Organizational Behavior, or Industrial/Organizational Psychology;
Understanding of modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies
OCM or Change Management Professional Certification
Experience with Agile Development and knowledge on Agile Deployment practices
Good Knowledge of Retail E-Commerce Domain
PMP Certification
Exposure to a CI/CD toolchain
Degree in Organizational Development, Organizational Behavior, or Industrial/Organizational Psychology;
Understanding of modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies
OCM or Change Management Professional Certification
Experience with Agile Development and knowledge on Agile Deployment practices
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