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SalaryDate Posted:
2024-02-16 Country:
United States of America Location:
OTFLH: Florida Home Offices Remote Location, Remote City, FL, 33408 USA Job Title:
Senior Manager, Portfolio Management
Role Overview:
Otis Elevator Company is the world’s largest manufacturer and service provider of people-moving products, including elevators, escalators and moving walkways responsible for moving 2 billion people per day.
We are seeking a highly motivated individual to lead as a Senior Manager, Portfolio Management with a broad responsibility for portfolio strategy, value, project execution and delivery, and innovation in the areas of mechanical, electrical, and software related projects executed across multiple sites. This role is expected to provide regional and global leadership in program Portfolio Management, governance, team leadership, and engineering effectiveness. Individuals are expected to understand and communicate the complexities of development activities, risk management, and escalations within complex programs.
Together, the people of Otis are creating new ideas and opportunities by collaborating across time zones, geographies, and cultures. So just imagine where we can take you!
On a typical day you will:
- Manage the project intake process, which includes adding and terminating projects
- Provide insights concerning the overall Portfolio performance relative to plan and create presentations to highlight the top and bottom contributors along with notable trends; communicate bi-directionally to leadership along with the COE team to prioritize and address areas of opportunity
- Coordinate product roadmaps, requirements, and priorities with cross-functional partners including engineering, product management, sales and marketing, and field personnel
- Lead cross-functional, global team meetings to communicate new design & development program and annual planning objectives, providing leadership and direction focusing on goals, deliverables, and timelines
- Understand, evaluate, and leverage best practices from centers globally to improve program execution and develop materials to support standardization
- Modernize the way in which we do work in engineering, including deployment of communication and collaboration tools
- Manage the PM Competency content and expand to include Otis business-specific, cultural expectations and reporting content
- Support project/gate reviews, & other team/executive communications; and initiatives within the program management team to increase efficiencies, processes, and tools
What You Will Need to be Successful:
- Engineering degree or other relevant experience
- 7+ years of program management experience required, 5+ with advanced degree
- Experience with hands-on program leadership from concept through deployment with multi-functional, global teams
- Exposure managing competing priorities, distributed teams, multi-disciplinary and cross-organizational stakeholders, and complex system trades
- Experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Teams, Project, Word, Excel)
- Ability to effectively resolve issues and conflicts to ensure timely results
- Understanding of the software development process, using both waterfall and agile methodologies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to deliver presentations to large organizations, as well as to executive and upper management teams
- Proficiency in spoken and written English
- Ability to travel up to 10%
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Familiarity with Daptiv or similar program Portfolio Management tools such as Planview
- Ability to mentor, coach and effectively transfer expertise to others
- Understanding of talent development between technical and program roles
- Scrum/Agile certifications
Apply today to join us and build what’s next!
If you live in a city, chances are we will give you a lift or play a role in keeping you moving every day.
Otis is the world’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation, and service company. We move 2 billion people every day and maintain approximately 2.2 million customer units worldwide, the industry's largest Service portfolio.
You may recognize our products in some of the world’s most famous landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Twin Towers! We are 69,000 people strong, including engineers, digital technology experts, sales, and functional specialists, as well as factory and field technicians, all committed to meeting the diverse needs of our customers and passengers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. We are proud to be a diverse, global team with a proven legacy of innovation that continues to be the bedrock of a fast-moving, high-performance company.
When you join Otis, you become part of an innovative global industry leader with a resilient business model. You’ll belong to a diverse, trusted, and caring community where your contributions, and the skills and capabilities you’ll gain working alongside the best and brightest, keep us connected and on the cutting edge.
We provide opportunities, training, and resources, that build leadership and capabilities in Sales, Field, Engineering and Major Projects and our Employee Scholar Program is a notable point of pride, through which Otis sponsors colleagues to pursue degrees or certification programs.
Today, our focus more than ever is on people. As a global, people-powered company, we put people – passengers, customers, and colleagues – at the center of everything we do. We are guided by our values that we call our Three Absolutes – prioritizing Safety, Ethics, Quality in all that we do. If you would like to learn more about environmental, social and governance (ESG) at Otis click
here
. Become a part of the Otis team and help us #Buildwhatsnext!
Otis is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.To request an accommodation in completing an employment application due to a special need or a disability, please contact us at
careers@otis.com
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