Senior Manager Portfolio Governance

Job Overview

Keurig Dr Pepper is seeking a Senior Manager Portfolio Governance who can provide oversight and support for an IT portfolio of products, services, and solutions and is a trusted business partner to consult and manage the portfolio from original concept through successful change management and delivery of value. As a Senior Manager Portfolio Governance, you may provide indirect leadership to junior portfolio governance analysts and financial analysts supporting the portfolio. The Senior Manager Portfolio Governance interacts with leaders, product teams, platform teams and stakeholders in IT, Finance and across business functional teams to provide portfolio consultation, guidance, and thought leadership.

What you will do

• Provide lean portfolio strategy and management, helping execute vision and roadmap based on business priorities.
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings and decision making with key portfolio stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Portfolio Manager, Product Managers, and Leaders to communicate finance and budget matters pertaining to portfolio.
• Facilitate the agile activation of the portfolio, supporting Portfolio Delivery leads and working with Agile Coaches.
• Manage and oversee the IT financial budgets and forecasting for assigned portfolio(s) and ensure accuracy in financial analyses, data entry and reporting.
• Monitor and govern the execution of initiatives, including investment and funding management and value capture, delivering against outcomes, managing change, driving IT excellence, and providing superior customer support.
• Administer standard processes and tools across the portfolio ensuring consistent implementation of practices and documentation, working with Portfolio Tooling teams to constantly improve processes.
• Analyze, summarize, and present portfolio data and generate insights for decision support to evolve portfolio, including financial trends and identification of IT cost-optimization opportunities to yield cost-savings.
• Conduct periodic assessment of portfolio resource and capacity allocation and suggest adjustments if necessary.
• Identify, evaluate, and roll out new tools to enhance the portfolio’s product teams’ performance and improve processes for scalability.
• Discover and track dependencies across the portfolio’s products, assets, and/or stakeholders and ensure they are socialized and managed to minimize impact.

Total Rewards

• Benefits, subject to election and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Paid Time Off (including paid parental leave, vacation, and sick time), 401k with company match, Tuition Reimbursement, and Mileage Reimbursement
• Annual bonus based on performance and eligibility

Requirements

Who you are:

• Expert knowledge of lean portfolio management principles, methodologies, and practices (e.g., defining strategy, vision, plan, improvements, and roadmaps).
• Expert level of financial acumen, understanding of investment strategies around capital and expense, and demonstratable excellence in understanding portfolio management principles.
• Expert knowledge IT financial management processes for to track, monitoring, and analyzing portfolio financials.
• Expert skills in measuring and tracking metrics to assess performance, ensuring agreed-upon metrics and/or service-level agreements meet expectations and the necessary actions are taken to address issues.
• Expert skills in collecting and analyzing data using statistical analysis or data modeling to generate insights, trends, and patterns and visually present information in diagrams, graphs, reports, and/or dashboard.
• Expert skills in competitive analysis to benchmark against best in class and being aware of business needs and matching best solutions based on industry trends.
• Expert skills in maintaining good relationships with the IT and the business who have the most impact and influence on products, services, solutions, managing the expectations and impacts of the technology work on the business and IT stakeholders.
• Expert ability to develop, manage, and maintain financial budgets and forecasts, performing financial calculations.
• Proven ability to make sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions.
• Proven ability to vary styles of interaction to match the needs of a variety of business and technical audiences.
• Proven ability to work effectively with all levels of employees including senior leadership.

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance/Economics/Accounting, Business Administration, etc.) or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Typically, 7 – 10+ years of experience in finance, technology investment analysis, portfolio management, or related roles.
• Demonstratable financial acumen and understanding of investment strategies around capital and expense, risk management, and portfolio management.
• Experience in working in multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Experience in lean portfolio management and agile ways of working (preferred).
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

Company Overview

Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with a portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partner brands and powerful distribution capabilities to provide a beverage for every need, anytime, anywhere. We operate with a differentiated business model and world-class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values. We work with big, exciting beverage brands and the #1 single-serve coffee brewing system in North America at KDP, and we have fun doing it!

Together, we have built a leading beverage company in North America offering hot and cold beverages together at scale. Whatever your area of expertise, at KDP you can be a part of a team that’s proud of its brands, partnerships, innovation, and growth. Will you join us?

We strive to be an employer of choice, providing a culture and opportunities that empower our team of ~29,000 employees to grow and develop. We offer robust benefits to support your health and wellness as well as your personal and financial well-being. We also provide employee programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development, while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated at work.

Keurig Dr Pepper is an equal opportunity employer and recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability or association with a person with a disability, medical condition, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.