IT Portfolio Manager

Job description / Role

IT Portfolio Manager, Prince 2, PMP, Banking, PMO. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Salary - TBC

Our client who are a significant member of the Middle Eastern banking community have asked us to assist in the hire of an IT portfolio Manager.

Purpose/Overview:
The IT Portfolio Managers role is to manage the IT elements of large, strategic, multi-project Strategic Initiates or Programmes. Therefore, the IT Portfolio Manager is a key role in managing initiatives that directly impact customer experience, sectors revenue stream; and/or projects initiated to mitigate major risks. This role requires communications with senior management including division and section heads; as well as with other PMOs and programme managers to collectively use resources among critical programmes. The IT Portfolio Manager is empowered to deliver major IT initiatives, and therefore, is accountable to Sector steering committees as well as the IT senior management team

Key Accountabilities:
Financial/Monetary: (Revenue/Cost): Manage the programme budget both CAPEX and OPEX Manage vendor contract payments Accountable to ensure the overall programme budget (CAPEX and OPEX) is spent as planned and report any variances to the programme board and steering committees

Customer/Client: (Internal/External): Acts as primary customer contact for programme activities, leading programme review sessions with customers to discuss cost, schedule, and technical performance Consolidate an overall programme plan based on each projects programme Create an overall programme management plan including (risk, resources, time, scope, cost, etc) plans Planning strategic programmes and proactively monitoring the overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate; Manage programme interdependencies in terms of resources and milestones

Suppliers/Vendors: (Regulators/Others): Leads the negotiation of contract and contract changes. Coordinates the preparation of proposals including financial terms/conditions of contract. Leads project team as well as vendors Monitors the vendor performance and takes corrective actions as required

People/Employee: (Unit/Bank wide): Manage/lead a team of project managers and project team (cross-functional and cross-organizational )who are assigned to his/her during the programme life cycle; Conducts programme review session with his/her project managers to align the overall programme and reports the results to ITPMO, senior management, and key stakeholders Reports directly to programme steering Proactively provide feedback on the programme teams performance and resolve any issues/conflicts Negotiate internally to obtain the HR resources required to achieve the programme goals Performs team assessments and communicate with functional managers for that purpose.

Requirements

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or any suitable degree
- A post-graduate qualification from an internationally recognized business school is preferred
- International project management certification, e.g. PMP, PMI
- Minimum Experience:
- 10-12 years of relevant experience across multiple support areas including BT operations, Technical Support, project management, and application maintenance and support, of which at least 3 years in project management within a Banking environment
- Language:
- English: Advanced

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AREAS:
- Excellent knowledge of banking BT systems and applications
- Very good knowledge of the banking operations and requirements
- Excellent project management skills
- Significant experience in translating the business needs in BT systems and operations
- Excellent knowledge of BT project management tools and systems, e.g. Prince 2 [SDLC]

About the Company

Deerfoot IT was established in 1997 as a dedicated IT recruitment consultancy. Deerfoot's core discipline is candidate search and selection covering all IT disciplines and technologies. We hold the ISO9001:2008 quality accreditation and are a corporate and specialist technology member of the R.E.C (The Recruitment & Employment Confederation), our industry's trade body.

Our client portfolio includes organisations operating in most industry sectors including: Banking, Insurance, Retail, IT Software, Govt. and Public Sector, Information Management and the Charity sector. Our client base is located throughout the UK.

Our aim is to simply achieve best practice within our chosen discipline as IT Recruiters. Ensuring we always deliver a best value service in an open, honest, responsible and ethical manner.