Job Description

Overview

West Creek 7 (12077), United States of America, Richmond, VirginiaDirector, Platform Excellence Portfolio Leader

The Director Portfolio Leader for the Platform Excellence Technology and Retail Consumer Engineering Team on the Technical Excellence Delivery team provides a considerable opportunity for delivering strategic value across a large Technology Portfolio’s. The ideal candidate will work with senior leaders to deliver results across a broad portfolio of initiatives and is comfortable thinking strategically and diving deep.  This leader will  identify opportunities and leverage the team to translate them into live solutions.

In this role you will bring together key stakeholders across product, tech and lines of business together to drive strategy and execute on high priority initiatives.  You will be able to deliver outsized and measurable outcomes by defining and guiding objectives, roadmaps, cross organization collaboration, progress and technical requirements for our Teams. This will require a strong technical background, managing strategic initiatives and OKR planning with a deep focus on execution and follow-through, accountability and results.  

Director Responsibilities:

Leads high performing product and business reviews of capacity, prioritization and delivery performance.

Establishes and maintains the list of strategic initiatives, OKRs, TT and ETBs.

Leads tower OKR planning and performance processes in partnership with product and business leadership (as appropriate).

Leads planning and delivery Operating Model alignment with product partners (as appropriate).

Partners with tech, product and business leaders to align on capacity, planning to enable prioritization.

Responsible for quality of agenda, content and organization of Platform Excellence Portfolio routine events and optimization.

Lead and develop a team of direct reports.

Excellent problem solving, influencing skills and an organizational change agent.

A quantitative approach to problem solving and a collaborative implementer to holistic solutions; a systems thinker.

Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity.

Exceptional cross-team collaboration; able to work across different functions, organizations, and reporting boundaries to get the job done.

Highly tuned emotional intelligence, good listener, and deep seated empathy for teams and partners.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree

At least 5 years of people management experience 

At least 5 years of process management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's Degree

5+ years of people management experience 

5+ years of product or application development experience in a leadership role

CSM, PMP, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification