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CoBank · 3 hours ago

Lean Portfolio Manager

Greenwood Village, CO

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$131K/yr - $161K/yr

8+ years exp

CoBank is a cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The Lean Portfolio Manager is responsible for driving the efficient execution of enterprise portfolio management practices, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, and managing risks and communications within the portfolio.

Banking

No H1B

Responsibilities

Refines and operates LPM practices, including portfolio kanban, funding models, and reporting

Accountable for governance, compliance, and outcome of work being performed in the enterprise portfolio; drives the alignment of Outcomes/Strategic Themes to the Epics and Feature sets within the enterprise portfolio

Leads portfolio ceremonies and decision-making forums, ensuring enterprise alignment and transparency

Responsible for enterprise portfolio operations and communications to diverse stakeholders and audiences

Creates, implements and socializes LPM/enterprise portfolio level metrics. Reports portfolio-level progress toward outcomes, investment decisions, and performance targets

Manages enterprise portfolio kanban

Proactively manages, escalates and resolves enterprise portfolio-level obstacles, risks, issues, impediments and dependencies impacting multiple teams/groups. Facilitates the identification of enterprise portfolio-level issues and risks through Scrum of Scrum of Scrums (S3) and ensures processes are effective

Builds and maintains rapport and strong relationships with Product, Business Owners, Executive Management team, team members and other Stakeholders using a variety of techniques

Partners with executives, business owners, and finance to prioritize investments and manage portfolio dependencies

Organizes and facilitates all LPM events and meetings

Qualification

Lean Portfolio ManagementSAFe certificationAgile Management toolsCI/CD pipelinesAgile methodologiesOrganizational change managementCommunication skillsFacilitation skillsStrategic thinking

Required

Bachelor's Degree required

SAFe certified RTE, POPM, SPC or SPCP required

8 years of experience serving as RTE or Lean Portfolio Manager, orchestrating work across a multi-team environments/portfolios required

6 years of experience working with medium to large complexity initiatives required

6 years of experience demonstrating proficiency with Agile Management tools (i.e. AHA!, Jira, ADO), required

Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and implementations

Experience operating within various Agile frameworks and implementation of Agile methodologies to multiple teams in large-scale enterprise change programs

Experience in managing enterprise portfolios of work through Lean Portfolio Management practices

Experience in managing Agile environments using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Experience leading and/or partnering closely with distributed/virtual teams

Experience with modern software engineering techniques such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, test-driven development and other automated acceptance testing techniques

Ability to work effectively in a rapidly changing, fluid and dynamic environment

Excellent communication, organizational change management and facilitation skills

Demonstrates growth mindset, learning mindset, strategic thinking