IT Strategic Portfolio Platforms Associate Manager

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The IT Associate Manager is a leadership role in an agile environment, responsible for developing a high functioning team and coaching team members to support skills development and career growth. The Associate Manager is responsible for planning and managing all projects and budgets within assigned business areas to deliver business value, driving engagement with vendors, company customers, IT colleagues, and other stakeholders to understand customer requirements and system interfaces, assess available technologies/vendor packages, and present solutions.

What You'll be Doing: 

• Works with scrum team, scrum masters and technical POs within an agile train.
• Responsible for talent development, including active coaching to support team member’s technical and functional skills and career growth.
• Develops resourcing strategies, allocating budget, staff (on-site, off-shore & vendor), tools and specialized support necessary for cost-effective implementation and successful customer rollout.
• Develops and maintains a technology roadmap that supports business objectives.
• Ensure delivery of business value including strategy for support and participation in on-call rotation.
• Manages relationships with business partners and external vendors.
• Assesses project viability and recommends strategies and tactics to satisfy customer needs. Manages the execution and delivery of projects.
• Provides direction to project teams and integrates activities with other IT functions to ensure successful implementation and support of project efforts.
• Facilitates the removal of agile train blockers and impediments.
• Ensures that application systems are developed in a way that complies with security and architectural standards and established methodologies.
• Monitors and reports to IT and user/customer management on the status of multiple, concurrent project efforts.
• Responsible for team member staffing and selection.
• Operationalizes data by loading, validating, and reviewing on a timely basis.
• Integrates relevant data sources into managed IT and financial platforms, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information for cost analysis and decision-making.
• Develops and generates reports to provide insights into IT cost structures, resource utilization, and budget variances. Analyzes data trends and recommend strategic improvements.
• Ensures compliance with organizational policies, data privacy regulations, and industry standards in the management and handling of financial and operational data.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including IT, finance, and business leaders, to understand their requirements and incorporate feedback.
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications): 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience and technical training is required.
• 5 years of experience in business or systems development, including implementation and installation in an online environment.
• Proven experience as an ApptioOne TBM Administrator or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in configuring and administering the ApptioOne platform.
• Experience with data integration, reporting, and analysis.
• Knowledge of IT Services and financial management processes
• ServiceNow and Strategic Portfolio Management experience is preferred
• Demonstrating leadership skills and possessing a track record of managing technical staff (cross-functional experience highly desirable).
• Familiarity managing budgets and understanding impact of financial decisions to P&L.
• Conceptual knowledge of information technologies and methodologies(redundant)
• Experience in the retail industry or in a production/service environment is preferred.
• Experience in which one or more of the following occurred:
  • Demonstrated ability to build and develop teams.
  • Demonstrated strong abilities in relationship management.
  • Exposure to a wide variety of software project management methodologies and frameworks with a deep understanding of agile development methodologies
  • Successfully developed and implemented applications in new computing architecture environments using new and emerging technologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multidiscipline, high-performance work teams and development groups.
  • Demonstrated competency in the execution of multiple projects, including managing resources across multiple projects to meet goals.
  • Developed efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.