Director, Lean Portfolio Management Lead

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This role helps align strategy and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. Supports the prioritization of work and financial accountability for the products and solutions in a portfolio. Coordinate, sustain, and improve value streams. Plan and monitor IT budgets to ensure alignment with strategic initiatives and or objectives. Forecast future budget needs, measure portfolio performance, and coordinate required compliance activities.

Financial Accountabilities Financial Operations: 
-Primary contact for department financials, including outlook locks, op planning, monthly reserving, capitalization, financial reporting supporting the CIO and business as needed, and various related items e.g. expense approver. 
-Vendor management, including contracts, Purchase Orders, MBM, invoice approvals. 
-Champion for finance evolution to Agile funding value streams, product vs. project mindset, Agile estimation Responsible for annual portfolio spend of 20M plus. 

Workforce Accountabilities: 

-Develop and maintain a workforce strategy, inclusive of vendor partners, such that the ratios of employee and or vendor, onshore and or offshore, HIG offices, etc. are considered to achieve an optimum balance. 
-Data capture, metrics, measurement, ratios, projections around work force. Understanding current and target team compositions, and path forward via hiring and other levers. 
-When needed, brings IT leads together to ensure consistency in various areas i.e. role clarity, job titles.
-Coordination of required or needed training, continuous learning activities Portfolio Accountabilities Owns the Lean Portfolio Management Function Participate in the identification and definition of development value streams across the portfolio and alignment to CIO areas technology roadmap. 
-Portfolio Kanban partner closely with business owners and or stakeholders, ensure phase gate deliverables are complete Portfolio Kanban partner with business to establish the investment prioritization process is transparent and collaborative.
-Establish portfolio flow to visualize and limit Work in Process WIP, reduce batch sizes of work, and control the length of longer-term development queues. 
-Establish and maintain and overall CIO portfolio view. 
-Ensure the investment prioritization process is transparent and collaborative. 
-Point for portfolio health reviews, scorecards, MOR meetings. Oversee portfolio performance and coordinate the reporting of key portfolio metrics e.g., employee engagement, customer satisfaction, productivity, agility, time to market, quality, partner health Review business strategies and initiatives on a periodic basis and consider a long-term planning horizon. 
-Mature a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, adopting OwnIT, Agile and DevOps mindsets, leveraging Harvest, enabling high performance. Coordinate a continuous approach to ensure compliance with audit and regulatory requirements and nondiscretionary initiatives. Rally Support and data management.
-Strong leadership and influencing skills at the senior management level. Strong financial acumen and knowledge of IT financial management practices. 
-Proven ability to develop talent within the team through coaching, opportunities and team growth by fostering an environment that is a destination for talent. 
-Proven ability to create a high performing team that has a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and is focused on business value and outcomes. 
-Proven ability to build commitment and empower others, communicate with clarity, courage and timeliness. 
-Effective Communication Skills Written, Verbal, Presentation. Strong understanding of Agile and Scaled Agile. 
-Strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand team needs includes fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
 
-Five to Seven years of portfolio management experience or equivalent leadership experience. 
-Five years of industry experience preferred. 
Experience with Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc. SAFe LPM certification a plus. 
-Depends on organization, could require management of a small team.

This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office (Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).

Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:

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