Portfolio Manager
Company: Cognizant
Location: Teaneck
Posted on: June 23, 2022
Job Description:
In healthcare, meeting next-generation consumer expectations
means delivering whole-person care and creating unified
experiences, across physical, digital and stakeholder silos. To
achieve success, Cognizant helps organizations modernize
foundational IT infrastructure and move to an ecosystem-based
operating model that prioritizes collaboration, agility and
resilience while delivering the care experiences that consumers
demand - anytime, anywhere.Our Healthcare team is looking for an
Enterprise Project Management Office Lead for Strategic Portfolio
Planning, Portfolio Performance Metrics, Portfolio Risk Management,
and overall PMO Operations Excellence. Job Description
- Lead portfolio planning and tracking of projects/programs
across IT organization under Business Process as a Service (BPaaS)
covering multiple functional towers (infra, application, security,
telecom and business operations)
- Develop and maintain the portfolio structure and roadmap
including business case/effort/cost/capacity plans considering
budgets/return on investment
- Track and report on portfolio/program progress,
actuals/forecast versus planned performance metrics/ROI; and track
and manage risks
- Establishes & report on continuous improvements to enhance the
PMO and Portfolio management practices/processes and
standards.
- Lead and provide guidance to other PMO constituents leading
programs/projects Roles & Responsibilities
- Undertake portfolio planning to align project, program and
portfolio activities with strategic objectives and business
outcomes and maintain portfolio roadmap
- Provide guidance, governance, prioritization criteria,
standardized processes, and project portfolio management best
practices, standards, tools and techniques
- Establish the standards and governance for portfolio plans,
effort/cost estimates/ ROI, budgets/forecast, financial analysis
and capacity/resource management
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of the consolidated
portfolio components in order to balance the portfolio; and
reporting on progress towards the achievement of strategic
objectives
- Undertakes identification and management of portfolio risk and
facilitates decision making
- Establishes and carries out communication with stakeholders;
gathers stakeholder expectations; issue/risk management and
establish overall program/portfolio reporting summary for
leadership and detail reports/tracking with program/project team
membersSkills:
- Solid project management & Agile methodology skills
- Budget/Financial Analysis, Capacity Planning & Resource
Management skills
- Knowledge/experience of Tools such as Jira, Clarity, Innotas,
HP PPM , MS Project, MS Excel
- Two or years experience in PMO / EPMO organization with similar
portfolio management roles
- Experience preferred in Healthcare Payer programs/portfolio;
knowledge of Medicare/Medicaid domains and
claims/enrollment/fulfillment/billing functional areas and
platforms such as Facets
- Superb communication - written and verbal, presentation skills
and stakeholder management skillsCognizant will only consider
applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in
the United States without requiring company sponsorship now or at
any time in the future.
Keywords: Cognizant, Paterson , Portfolio Manager, Executive , Teaneck, New Jersey
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