Pathward
VP, Enterprise Portfolio Management
Job Summary
This role involves managing and transforming enterprise portfolio projects and programs, ensuring alignment with business objectives and governance standards. The candidate will oversee project lifecycle, facilitate communication with senior leadership, and optimize resource allocation to maximize value. Qualifications include extensive experience in program and portfolio management, with a preference for familiarity with Agile, SAFe, and financial industry regulations. The position emphasizes leadership, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills in a complex banking and fintech environment.
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Job Description
We are a hybrid, remote-office company dedicated to growing our talent anywhere!
We have onsite locations in: Sioux Falls, SD, Scottsdale, AZ, Louisville, KY, Troy, MI, Franklin, TN, Easton, PA.
At Pathward, we take tremendous pride in our purpose to create financial inclusion for all™. We are a financial empowerment company that works with innovators to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all. We strive to remove barriers that traditional institutions put in the way of financial access, and promote economic mobility by providing responsible, secure, high quality financial products.
We are a team of problem solvers and innovators who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger and well-positioned for success. We celebrate, and embrace, our team members through our *HUMBLE*HUNGRY*SMART approach, and we believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.
About the Role:
Manage and transform enterprise portfolio projects, programs, and structured work efforts. Collaborate with the business portfolio to ensure IT portfolio alignment. Oversee enterprise portfolio governance and facilitation of community of practice and manage the project portfolio for shared services and information technology projects.
What You Will Do:
- Oversee and manage the entire life cycle of investments and initiatives to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Act as a primary resource for the investment council, steering committee, and senior executives for communications and reporting the state and performance of initiatives within the portfolio.
- Ensure the intake process, prioritization, and investment decisions align with customer and business objectives. Provide and escalate data on achieving an optimized mix among project investments, making the best possible use of all resources and delivering the maximum value and benefits from projects and programs within the portfolio.
- Create an adaptive culture to ensure that resources can support changing customer needs. Track key performance indicators based on customer expectations. Put benefit realization in place, including continuous feedback to future prioritization decisions and business case assumptions.
- Ensure adherence to the appropriate governance functions related to the portfolio on behalf of the enterprise portfolio management objectives and in accordance with the organization’s guidelines, policies, and practices.
- Direct the development and maintenance of communications and reporting regarding project portfolios, their contents, and the performance of individual initiatives to stakeholders and governance council(s), the steering committee, and senior executives.
- Oversee and manage dependencies across the initiatives in the portfolio and resolve conflicts. Evaluate and balance the availability of the required skills and competencies across project and program teams within the project portfolio, as mandated and resourced by leadership.
- Other duties as assigned
What You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, a related field, or equivalent education and work experience.
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Certification(s) within at least one delivery methodology or framework such as Agile, SAFe, PMI Standards, etc.
- Typically, 12+ years with bachelor’s or equivalent in program and portfolio management within information technology, fintech, or financial service industry.
- 10+ years in leadership role with responsibilities across major projects and programs.
- Direct SAFe Portfolio Management implementation experience.
- Financial industry regulatory experience (FDIC, OCC, SOC, SOX, etc.) preferred.
- Experienced in transformational initiatives within complex banking environments using Organizational Change Management (OCM) techniques in combination with agile program delivery and strategic portfolio management.
- Hands-on experience establishing strategic execution functions to drive innovation and adopt emerging capabilities to enhance customer value creation and revenue generation.
- Experience with planning tools such as Service Now Portfolio Management or Atlassian.
- Demonstrated leadership leading diverse teams.
- The ability to engage and collaborate across all levels within an organization including senior executive interface.
- Excellent analytical, strategic planning, and execution skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate program objectives, inspire and motivate staff, and maintain alignment with the business strategy.
- High degree of political sensitivity and the ability to influence others to overcome obstacles and achieve program success.
The responsibilities listed above are not all inclusive and may be changed at any time.
Salary range: $151,672.07 – $250,258.92
The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for a new hire in this role. Individual pay within the range will be determined by multiple factors which can include but are not limited to a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your location during the hiring process. Ranges may be modified in the future.
This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity. Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, paid time off, and more.
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Don’t have everything listed under qualifications? If you’re excited about this role but your experiences don’t match exactly to everything in the posting, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other Pathward roles. Pathward is an equal employment opportunity employer and considers candidates for roles without regard to their race, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability or any other category protected by law.
Who we are:
Our commitment to inclusion is woven into our DNA. We believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, pregnancy, national origin, age (age 40 and over), disability, genetic information, marital status, hair texture or hairstyle, ancestry, service in the uniformed services, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence or any other class protected by federal, state and local laws.
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