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Address: USA-MA-Quincy-1385 Hancock Street Store Code: Customer Facing Retail and Fue (2762188)
Retail Business Services is the services company of leading grocery retail group Ahold Delhaize USA, providing services to five East Coast grocery brands: Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Retail Business Services leverages the size and scale of the local brands to and provides industry-leading expertise, insights and analytics to local brands to support their strategies. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we foster a community of belonging where everyone is valued.For more information, visit https:// www.retailbusinessservices.com . Directs lifecycle activities including selection, implementation, and upgrade of a collection of solutions in an assigned portfolio. Oversee the effectiveness of the assigned portfolio against the business strategy and roadmap. Responsible for budget and total cost of owership of assigned portfolio. Provides leadership in the planning, development, implementation and operational support processes of new Retail Business Services business solutions and enhancements of existing application software/infrastructure in the assigned Retail Business Services portfolio. 1. Maintain strategic alignment Work collaboratively with Global portfolio management and business analysis peers to maintain the strategic IT project portfolio alignment with Business and IT strategy- Manages the investment portfolio and ensure that all planned investments are aligned with the business and IT stakeholders and have executive stakeholder commitment
- Continuously evaluate, p rioritize and optimize IT investment portfolio based on strategic value, business needs, cost/benefits and critical risk across all regions. The portfolio manager ensures that Investment evaluation process meets Retail Business Services's investment standards and criteria and has the proper authorization level.
- Continuously review the project investment portfolio to identify and exploit synergies, eliminate duplication across all regions and between individuals programs .
- Reviews and asse s s strategic project initiation deliverables such b usiness c ases on strategic justification and risk.
- Manages resources to support demand. Ensure that the "solution teams" efforts are properly scheduled and staffed, that all staff are properly allocated to ensure that commitments are met as scheduled and within budget. Organize and direct the "solution team" and third-party providers in the planning, development, implementation and operations support of systems to support the assigned portfolio in alignment with the IM strategic roadmap
- Scheduling of projects based on financial and strategic justifications in close cooperation with business and IT stakeholders
- Identification of direct and indirect dependencies
- Updates and maintain the integrated portfolio roadmap based on latest changes on project and program level
- Facilitates integrated planning sessions across domains
- Communication of a multi-layered portfolio plan
- Coordinates with Project Managers, vendors and Business Relationship Managers to allocate resources to areas within the portfolio in need of most improvement. Balance the resources across projects and operating units to optimize benefits delivery to the business
- Responsible for cost consequence within portfolio. Study, analyze, and define the impact of business needs on the system components and its interfaces to provide maximum benefits from each system and drive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
- Continuously monitor and track the full RBS IT project portfolio, its progress and performance and the successful development of the required business and IT capabilities
- Tracking, mitigation of critical and portfolio-wide risks and issues and escalation to the appropriate IT leadership meetings. Monitor overall risk profile of project portfolio
- Co-ordination critical project interdependencies in order to safeguard the coherent and integrated definition, planning and delivery of the portfolio
- Provides senior IT and business leadership with accurate view of the project/investment portfolio based on appropriate performance targets allowing them to make rapid and effective decisions
- Ensures life cycle assessment for selected portfolio components occurs, determining remaining useful life of hardware/software components based on business functionality, technical architecture, vendor strategies, competitor activities, and package alternatives
- Benefits tracking: initiate the process to monitor actual benefit realization in the business after project implementation
- Evaluates if business benefits significantly deviate from expected benefits, escalate issues to the appropriate party and implement lessons learned in the portfolio prioritization process.
- Relevant Bachelor/Master degree (e.g. Business Administration, IT Management)
- 8-10 years
- 3 or more years progressively responsible management experience in IT
- Fluent English (word and writing);
- Analytical skills;
- Strong facilitator skills in improvement processes
- Strong in strategic topics, adding value to vision and strategy
- This role must have knowledge of retail grocery and the technology that supports that environment.
- Maintain awareness of state of the art technologies in the IM discipline. They should have demonstrated knowledge of current and emerging technology and trends.
- Proficiency in using structured sytems development methods and techniques. Process knowlege/ thinking (General Architect).
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