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Land O'Lakes Venture37 · 1 day ago

Senior Portfolio Manager

Arden Hills, MN (USA)

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$108K/yr - $162K/yr

6+ years exp

Land O'Lakes Venture37 is a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. The Sr. Portfolio Manager is responsible for managing the overall portfolio of growth initiatives, facilitating meeting governance, strategic planning, and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.

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Responsibilities

Develops and implements detailed project plans for portfolio management processes, process improvements, and key portfolio initiatives; builds team ownership and commitment to project plan

In collaboration with key stakeholders, ensures all processes, activities, and deliverables are managed appropriately to meet organization milestones and portfolio reviews. Plans and aligns key stakeholders to the detailed schedule to ensure a successful outcome

With the business leads, the portfolio manager will facilitate the development, updating, and maintenance of resourcing models for specific business areas utilizing data predictors; present resourcing models and other data analysis to operational and business partners on a routine basis

Develop and implement governance standards and templates to drive consistent reporting and updates for projects across meetings structures. Work closely with project teams to ensure content is developed ahead of key reviews

Establish guidance and expectations for initiative communication and portfolio impact assessment

Responsible for team and cross-functional budget and schedule related communications. Informs and presents project progress to plan and known risks to leadership. Communicates and influences resolution of cross-functional budget or capacity issues

Establishes effective, collaborative working relationships with internal stakeholders to maximize portfolio efficiency, responsiveness and resource allocation. Maintains a servant leadership mentality

Uses internal systems to update project milestones, and key project data; creates new portfolio budget and resource reports to support management of projects and works collaboratively to update, enhance, and create new portfolio management reports to increase effectiveness of portfolio management

Identifies and communicates portfolio risks and issues as well as develops and recommends mitigation strategies with portfolio stakeholders. Maintains ongoing understanding of initiative strategy and key milestones to ensure recommendations are aligned with overall business strategy

Drives the management of portfolio and project financials including budgeting, forecasting, actuals tracking. Participates in budget development and evaluating how portfolio and project plan changes impact cost and schedule. Provides reporting to key stakeholder areas as needed or requested. Responsible for management of overall financial plan accuracy through collaboration with project leadership

Qualification

Portfolio ManagementFinancial ManagementProject ManagementStakeholder InteractionAnalytical SkillsServant LeadershipData ManagementResource ManagementCommunication SkillsProblem Solving