Principal PPM (Enterprise Program and Portfolio)

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OVERVIEW:

OVERVIEW:

Accountable for setting and leading program management framework across multiple highly complex and interdependent programs to ensure the successful delivery of defined value and outcomes. In all cases has ownership for maturing and tailoring multiple practices, deliverables and/or tools to work across DSG’s Teammate, Athlete, Foundations, and Data domains. Acts as a mentor and coach to junior team members. Is equally comfortable setting up theoretical program management frameworks and process flows as rolling up their sleeves and managing the nuances of interdependent work on a day-to-day basis. While this is an individual contributor role, an ability to influence stakeholders within and outside of a program and function will be essential ingredients to success.

Leads the planning, oversight, and coordination of all portfolios across multiple

domain areas and facilitates cross domain alignment and coordination. Partners with product managers and others on intake and demand planning. Engages all disciplines across the technology team to facilitate capacity planning and alignment of capacity to demand through planning, prioritization, sequencing of work, and dependency mapping. Utilizes defined practices, tools, and deliverables to track and report on the overall health and progress of delivery against portfolio plans and goals.

• Portfolio Management: Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of portfolio outcomes within a broad area of responsibility, using appropriate portfolio management methodologies to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved.

• Leadership and Direction: Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.

• Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across multiple programs and/or portfolios and domains to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice across assigned programs and/or portfolio(s) and domains.

• Enterprise Business Analysis: Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level. Lead the improvement efforts that are within span of control at this level.

• Culture of Innovation: Lead the planning and dissemination of innovative capabilities across the businesses, helping people develop these competencies and enabling them to innovate through solutions such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons

• Transformational Change Management: Lead the design of transformational change activities, and manage the delivery of initiatives within broader change programs, ensuring integration with related programs ; use structured change management methodologies to drive acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.

• Portfolio Risk and Issue Management: Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at portfolio and domain levels. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the portfolio, develop and agree recovery plans.

• Ongoing Learning and Development: Act as subject matter expert in a broad area of program and portfolio technology, and operational management for the team. Develop and maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media

• Program/Portfolio Planning: Lead the production and approval and management of program and/or portfolio plans to ensure integration of activities across portfolios and domains, appropriately organized to deliver on defined objectives, comply with the organization's approved methodologies, frameworks, and standards and compliance with the organization's wider governance structure and processes.

• Reporting and Review: Lead the delivery of the portfolio and/or program reviews to ensure that stakeholders are able to evaluate progress and agree on change at appropriate points.

• Continuous Improvement: Assess existing operations in area of responsibility, generate and implement new innovation processes to ensure continuous improvements are delivered. Mentors junior team members.

• Program Assurance: Lead the design and delivery of program and/or portfolio level assurance reviews, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to resolve any issues identified to give senior stakeholders confidence that the program can deliver to time, budget, and quality

• Resource Management: Lead the negotiation and deployment of annual and longer-term program and/or portfolio resources and budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization across programs and/or portfolios and domains

• Benefit Realization: Lead the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure that intended business benefits are realized across multiple programs and/or portfolios and domains. Proactively identifies incremental benefit generation opportunity areas.

• Program Governance: Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined within technology programs, and ensure compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes

• Budgeting: Plan and manage budget for assigned activities within work area

• Program Risk and Issue Management: Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with one or more complex programs or initiatives, escalating these where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these

• Information and Business Advice: Provide authoritative specialist advice to leadership on the implementation of policy pertaining to the design and implementation of programs and/or portfolios as well as change initiatives

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred

• General Experience: Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (Over 10 years to 15 years )

• Managerial Experience: Experience of interpreting strategy and policy in order to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames (Over 10 years to 15 years)

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VIRTUAL REQUIREMENTS:

At DICK’S, we thrive on innovation and authenticity. That said, to protect the integrity and security of our hiring process, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (like ChatGPT or others) during interviews or assessments.

To ensure a smooth and secure experience, please note the following:

• Cameras must be on during all virtual interviews.

• AI tools are not permitted to be used by the candidate during any part of the interview process.

• Offers are contingent upon a satisfactory background check which may include ID verification.

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