Job Title: IT Portfolio Manager
Location: Corporate Satellite Office - Availability at St. Louis, MO | Fruitland, ID | Meridian, ID  
Starting Salary: $85,000 - $142,000 (depending on experience)
Employment Type: Full-Time, Salary
Work Environment: Hybrid (4 days in-office, 1 day remote)

Summary of Company Benefits:
* Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
* Health Savings Account (HSA)
* Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
* 401(k) with 3% Employer Match
* Group Term Life Insurance and AD&D
* Employer Paid Long-Term & Short-Term Disability
* Voluntary Supplemental Hospital and Accident Plans
* Employee Assistance Program
* 8 Company Paid Holidays & 1 Floating Holiday
* Progressive Paid Time Off (PTO) Accruals
* Annual Salary Incentive Bonus

About Woodgrain:
Woodgrain is one of the top millwork operations in the world with locations throughout the United States and Chile. With 70 years of quality craftsmanship and service, Woodgrain is a top producer of mouldings, doors, and windows, as well as a premier distributor of specialty building products. Woodgrain Inc. is headquartered in Fruitland, Idaho with six divisions and over 45 manufacturing and warehouse facilities in the United States and South America. Since 1954, Woodgrain is proud to be family owned and operated. 

Job Summary:
The IT Portfolio Manager will be responsible for governing the IT project processes and managing the IT portfolio to ensure a high level of engagement between IT and the business throughout the entire project life cycle. This position will lead a team of Project Managers to develop a comprehensive portfolio for projects that runs from initiation through post project payback evaluation to gauge effectiveness and improve delivery of services. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Define and govern the IT project requests and intake process
• Partner with Business Relationship Managers and Business Process Consultants to develop strategic initiatives and prioritize requests
• Coordinate with other IT teams to ensure dependencies and resourcing are managed effectively
• Integrate risk management and change control into the portfolio governance to proactively address delivery obstacles
• Develop standard templates and processes for estimating work, visualizing progress, and setting key milestone dates
• Suggest methods to capacity plan, calculate ROI, and provide governance metrics
• Build and maintain communication strategies for executive stakeholders, sponsors, and end users throughout the project life cycle
• Ensure process alignment of IT to multiple departments, processes, and objectives
• Manage and support a team of Project Managers within IT to meet the KPIs of the Portfolio department

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical area such as Computer Science, Information Technology, or Business. Equivalent training and experience can be considered in lieu of a degree.
• At least 5 years of related experience working as a Program/Portfolio Manager position or in a similar position. Preference will be given to candidates with SAP experience
• PMP Certiciation is preferred but not required
• Previous experience with large-scale SAP/ERP implementations is required. Preference will be given to candidates with global exposure.
• Must have strong communication skills and experience giving executive level informative style briefings. 

Additional Skills:

• Excellent understanding of project implementation methodologies (waterfall ASAP, agile, etc.)
• Strong experience with ERP related deployments and understanding of the various IT areas that impact the process. 
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty around projects, must be capable of adapting to changing principles.
• Excellent problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience with applying the KISS principle (keep it simple).
• Strong strategic thinking skills and ability to operate under pressure with numerous tasks and responsibilities.
• Excellent analytical skills to interpret complex, cross-functional requirements and challenges.
• Commitment to quality and achieving results that are oriented to detail and task completion. 
• Effective teamwork skills, across different locations both geographically and technologically. 
• Ability to effectively communicate in English, both verbally and in writing. Additional languages preferred. 

Physical Demands:
The physical demands and work environment are representative of a typical office environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds. 

Travel: This position does require travel to other Woodgrain locations, expected travel time is <20%. 

Applications will be accepted until the position has been filled.

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