Microsoft Data Center Regional Portfolio Business Program Manager 

Ireland, Dublin 

713478960

Required Qualifications:

• Significant experience as a Senior Portfolio Manager / Senior Business Change Manager within an enterprise scale environment
• Excellent communications skills, including proven experience of executive level briefings and experience of influencing decisions at a senior level
• Demonstrated ability as an effective stakeholder manager, mentor and coach.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge and balance multiple priorities at enterprise scale
• Passion for leveraging processes, approaches and technology to drive significant business value

Background Check Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Desirable Experience:

• Prior experience in working with both Waterfall and Agile project delivery methodologies
• Experience in Operations Management
• Data Centre Experience
• Experience in scale up organisations balancing stability and growth

Role Responsibilities:

• Work with Director of Strategy and the EMEA DCOPs Leadership Team to enhance and refine our portfolio management process so that it is aligned to and will deliver the business strategy and that will build a culture and competence around change.
• Develop processes to encourage collaboration and visibility of decisions regarding project prioritisation and strategic alignment
• Develop and manage the Portfolio Roadmap (Backlog, Work In Progress, Delivered)
• Monitor progress and refresh the portfolio on a monthly, quarterly, annual basis
• Ensure appropriate tracking and co-ordination activities are in place to keep project progress visible – reporting regularly to Leadership team and the wider organisation. This to include development of key metrics to reflect the impact of the changes implemented.
• Identification and management of intersections and dependency across the portfolio to ensure 'joined-up' portfolio management and hence strategy execution
• Ensure that DCOPS leverages Microsoft group and other appropriate sources to drive both new customer offers and new ways of working