- The Senior Manager IT Portfolio Governance and Resource Mgmt plays a crucial, strategic role in ensuring that an organization's investments in IT projects and initiatives are aligned with its overall business goals and deliver maximum value.

- This role is centered on establishing and maintaining the structure, policies, and processes (governance framework) that guide and oversee the entire collection, or portfolio, of IT investments.

The role requires: The core role is to serve as the bridge between IT execution and executive business strategy.

They ensure:

- Strategic Alignment: Every IT investment (project or program) directly supports and moves the organization closer to its strategic objectives.

- Value Maximization: The overall portfolio is optimized to deliver the highest possible business value and return on investment (ROI).

- Oversight and Control: Consistent standards, decision-making processes, and performance monitoring are applied across all initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Governance Framework and Standards:

- Establish and Maintain: Develop, implement, and enforce the formal governance framework, standards, policies, and procedures for IT portfolio management.

- Define Decision-Making: Define the roles, responsibilities, and decision rights for various governance bodies (Portfolio Governance Committee).

- Ensure Compliance: Monitor the portfolio to ensure all initiatives comply with organizational standards, methodologies (like Agile or Waterfall), and regulatory requirements

Portfolio Planning and Prioritization:

- Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with senior leadership and business unit heads to define portfolio goals that align with the corporate strategy.

- Collaborating with IS portfolio managers across IT department to understand priority of projects, creating roadmap for each portfolio that will be consolidated into an integrated IT roadmap

- Intake and Evaluation: Centralize and manage the intake process for new project proposals, evaluating them based on strategic fit, business value, risk, and resource requirements.

- Collaborate with the Transformation Program Team to integrate IT governance with the broader Hershey's Integrated Prioritization System to manage project intake.

- Prioritization: Drive the prioritization and sequencing of projects, often facilitating a governing body to make data-driven decisions on which projects to fund, defer, or stop (Portfolio Balancing).

Monitoring, Reporting, and Risk Management:

- Performance Monitoring: Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics for the overall portfolio and its constituent projects/programs.

- Reporting: Prepare and deliver regular, transparent reports to senior management and stakeholders on portfolio health, progress, financial status, and strategic achievement.

- Risk Management: Identify, analyze, and manage risks and dependencies that span across multiple projects or threaten the portfolio's overall success.

Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement of the portfolio management process, adopting best practices and tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

IT Resource Management:

- Manage and optimize the allocation of critical resources (people, systems, funding) across competing projects to prevent overallocation and ensure the highest priority projects are adequately staffed.

- Collaborating with the GCC organization to create end-to-end process from demand intake to resource allocation that will give visibility across Grow (enhancement) and project work.

Required Skills and experience:

MBA (preferred):

- 5-10 years of experience in IT Portfolio Governance roles with hands-on strategic planning, business case development and prioritization methodologies responsibilities

- Experience designing, implementing, and enforcing standardized portfolio and project management methodologies ( PMBOK, PRINCE2, Agile Portfolio Management).

- Hands-on experience with Portfolio Management applications such as Clarity, ServiceNow, Microsoft Azure DevOps.

- Advanced presentation, public speaking skills and ability to drive C-suite/senior leadership level discussions