Portfolio Management Lead - Remote Canada

At NTT DATA, we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees have been key factors in our company's growth and market presence. By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, we ensure a bright future for NTT DATA and for the people who work here.

For more than 25 years, NTT DATA Services have focused on impacting the core of your business operations with industry-leading outsourcing services and automation. With our industry-specific platforms, we deliver continuous value addition, and innovation that will improve your business outcomes. Outsourcing is not just a method of gaining a one-time cost advantage, but an effective strategy for gaining and maintaining competitive advantages when executed as part of an overall sourcing strategy.

NTT DATA Services currently seeks a Portfolio Management Lead to join our team for REMOTE position in Canada

The individual will be responsible for serving as a portfolio lead supporting Cybersecurity and Contact Center Portfolio. The individual in this role will need to be able to operate within a high level of ambiguity, remain calm under pressure and help establish structure and focus.

List Key Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio intake process and prioritization meetings with cross functional partners and influence across teams to ensure alignment with the strategy and achieve business goals.
• Lead and facilitate creation of baseline financials for new initiatives in partnership with service managers, ensuring clarity and alignment with key stakeholders.
• Monitor and track the portfolio health, progress, and interdependencies with other teams, and identifies impacts and recommends sequencing of the work.
• Lead connectivity between delivery teams, finance partners and other portfolio leads, influencing decisions to achieve successful business outcomes.
• Understand capacity constraints across the delivery teams, drive visibility and facilitate alignment of priorities and trade-offs needed.
• Establish and facilitate regular portfolio reviews to ensure visibility to execution progress, financials, capacity challenges, project risks and outcomes/value.
• Analyzes data on projects, resources, and workloads and derives actionable insights for the service managers and the senior leadership. Ensure quality and accuracy of portfolio data within the portfolio tool.
• A critical element is executive communication. You will be expected to flex between tactical project level conversations and strategic portfolio conversations and adapt communication to the audience.
• Drive adoption of the portfolio tool with assigned teams, by providing communication and support on processes and expectations.
• Provide aggregate reporting on portfolio health and prepare information for executive presentations in a digestible and crisp format.
• Establish clarity and connect the dots across multiple teams, while employing standard ways of working with other portfolio leads.

Required Skills and Experience

• Requires at least 5+ years of program and/or portfolio management experience within a technology focused area (digital transformation, application development, data analytics, infrastructure, etc.)
• Experience with PPM tools (Planview, Microsoft PPM, Clarity, etc.)

About NTT DATA Services:

NTT DATA Services is a recognized leader in IT and business services, including cloud, data and applications, headquartered in Texas. As part of NTT DATA, a $30 billion trusted global innovator with a combined global reach of over 80 countries, we help clients transform through business and technology consulting, industry and digital solutions, applications development and management, managed edge-to-cloud infrastructure services, BPO, systems integration and global data centers. We are committed to our clients' long-term success. Visit nttdata.com or LinkedIn to learn more.

NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regarding to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter so that we may connect you with the appropriate team.

Where required by law, NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for specific roles. The starting hourly range for this remote role is $78/hour. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on several factors, including the candidate's actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

This position is eligible for company benefits that will depend on the nature of the role offered. Company benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, life, and AD&D insurance, short-and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally required benefits.
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