Portfolio Manager - 6 months Contract

Please note this role is for 6 months Contract with our MNC Client.

About the client:
Our client is a MNC

Responsibilities:

Portfolio & Delivery Management

• Monitor delivery performance across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Establish appropriate governance, reporting, and performance measures at portfolio level.
• Identify delivery risks, bottlenecks, dependencies, and areas requiring management intervention.
• Work with Technical Delivery Leads and Project Managers to improve delivery planning and execution.

Ensure delivery teams have appropriate processes and information to track progress effectively.

Jira & Delivery Data Management

• Drive consistent use of Jira across technology delivery teams.
• Establish standards for Jira usage, data quality, workflows, and reporting.
• Improve the accuracy and reliability of delivery data to provide better visibility of project status and performance.

Develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms to provide meaningful insights to management. Identify trends and issues through delivery data and recommend corrective actions.

Management Reporting & Performance Insights

• Develop portfolio and programme-level reporting for senior management.
• Define and monitor key delivery metrics and performance indicators.
• Provide analysis of delivery trends, risks, resource utilisation, dependencies, and milestones.
• Improve transparency of technology delivery across distributed teams.
• Mentor Technical Delivery Leads on effective reporting and performance management practices.

Role Purpose

• Drive value-adding, organisation-wide agile initiatives by coaching leaders and squads, removing systemic impediments, and elevating ways of working across projects and programs. Own pragmatic standards for Jira/Confluence and delivery reporting as supporting enablers—kept lean, governed and data-reliable.

Key Outcomes (Strategic Focus)

• Visible uplift in delivery health and value: improved predictability, shorter cycle/lead times, and clearer dependencies across programs.
• Adoption of consistent, outcome‑oriented agile practices across teams and tribes; demonstrable rise in agile maturity.
• Lean, standardised tooling and reporting that reduce manual effort and reinforce agreed ways of working.

Core Responsibilities

A. Strategic Initiatives & Ways of Working

• Coach and drive squads and key stakeholders to comply with the organisation’s agile systems development methodology and ways of working; advocate agile/lean values and best practices to shift mindset and behaviours.
• Identify organisational impediments and cross‑team dependencies restricting productivity and value delivery; propose balanced initiatives with clear execution plans, owners and success metrics backed by real examples and data.
• Promote continuous improvement: set strategic goals and milestones for squads, projects and programs; measure outcomes and take corrective actions to raise agile maturity.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, project managers, system analysts, technical delivery managers, tribe leads and chapter leads to improve delivery health, quality and value.
• Design and lead targeted enablement—role playbooks, workshops and training—followed by action tracking to ensure lasting impact.

Skills & Capabilities

• Strategic coaching and facilitation across teams, projects and programs; ability to remove systemic impediments and drive measurable improvement.
• Exceptional stakeholder management; clear, concise and professional communication with both functional and technical stakeholders.
• Creation of engaging training materials and delivery of impactful workshops with tracked follow‑through actions.
• Jira and Confluence administration knowledge sufficient to govern standards and data quality (supporting).
• Data & automation (supporting): JQL and Automation for Jira; advanced Excel for analysis (e.g., lookups, pivots, Power Query/Power Pivot); Python or SQL for repeatable data tasks; BI tooling as needed.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Interested candidates, who wish to apply for the above position, please send in your resume to [email protected]

EA License No. 01C4394
EA Personnel Reg.No. R1327254 (Meshram Megha)

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