Director, Portfolio Management

Company Description

Vuori is re-defining what athletic apparel looks like: built to move and sweat in but designed with a casual aesthetic to transition into everyday life. We draw inspiration from an active coastal California lifestyle; an integration of fitness, creative expression, and life. We aim to inspire others to take on all aspects of their lives with clarity, enthusiasm, and purpose…while having a lot of fun along the way. Working at Vuori, our goal is to create something special together. Our foundation and success are made possible thanks to incredible people, thriving culture, and an inspirational community.

Our office continues to be central to collaboration and being in great relationships. As a hybrid-first company, we require an in-office presence for our roles.

Job Description

The Director, Portfolio Management will oversee and drive the execution and delivery for a portfolio of capabilities, products, and complex projects in the technology organization. They will collaborate with technology and business leaders to drive the translation of our strategy and business objectives into our technical roadmaps. As a people leader, this role will provide strategic direction to a team of delivery specialists including Project Managers and Scrum Masters that are responsible for the overall planning, communication, coordination, and delivery of one or many technology initiatives or product areas in the digital (customer-facing), planning, forecasting, and analytics capability areas.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in technology project management, agile delivery methodologies, and team leadership. They will be the key champion for driving operational excellence via standardization and documentation and continuous improvement of our core delivery methodologies, product and software delivery lifecycle. They will establish strategic goals and direction, and collaborate with senior executives and stakeholders to ensure alignment of the portfolio and individual project objectives and product capabilities with the business strategy and vision.

The Director, Portfolio Management should be a dynamic leader and strong communicator with an excellent ability to present to and gather feedback from senior stakeholders across the organization. They should contribute meaningfully to creating a culture of delivery excellence to drive our business forward and strengthens our customer relationships.

Qualifications

What you'll get to do:

• Collaborate with technology and business leaders to drive the translation of strategy and business objectives into our technical roadmaps.

• Lead the development, execution, and value delivery of a project and product portfolio, ensuring alignment with the company strategy, goals, and priorities.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of project managers and scrum masters.

• Champion and foster a collaborative and agile work environment, promoting continuous improvement and innovation.

• Align team efforts with the strategic goals and objectives of the Technology department and the broader organization.

• Oversee the delivery of a portfolio of critical technology projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and budget.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, data scientists, and business stakeholders, to deliver high-quality solutions and capabilities.

• Implement and maintain robust delivery methodologies, tools, and best practices.

• Develop and execute a strategic roadmap for the delivery of technology projects in alignment with organizational goals.

• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the success and efficiency of deliveries to regularly review and report on the performance of the portfolio to senior leadership.

• Setting the best-practice example, mentorship, and guidance to team members.

• Establish & maintain a strong relationship with the broader Technology area and business partners including local, remote, and regional staff, supporting ongoing adjustments to ways of working and collaboration methods.

Who you are:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related field.

• 10 years of professional experience managing the delivery of technology initiatives while applying standard methodologies and delivery approaches, including frameworks outlined by PMI, AIPMM, Scrum Alliance, ICAgile, and others.

• 5 years in a leadership role while directly leading and managing people

• Extensive experience working in mainstream collaboration and work management tools like Microsoft Project, JIRA, Confluence, Asana, Azure DevOps, etc and how to apply them practically based on the needs of the team.

• Experience and ability managing projects of varying sizes, complexities, and team structures.

• Proficient in conducting user research, developing user personas, and collecting, analyzing, and leveraging data to drive strategy and decision-making.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to prioritize requirements and initiatives that achieve business objectives.

• Best-practice understanding in the areas of requirement gathering and validation, technical documentation, quality assurance and testing.

• Expert communicator and presenter that is comfortable working with all levels and areas of the organization including senior management, vendors, and consultants.

• An understanding of the relevant market landscape, leading and trending technologies, with experience conducting formal technology market scans and facilitating vendor RFI and RFP exercises.

• Experience and exposure to a range of technical environments including web technologies, infrastructure and cloud services, the software development lifecycle, integrated enterprise applications, data, analytics, and insights reporting.

• An understanding level knowledge of technical architecture, application systems design and integration.

• Experience with Sales Planning, Forecasting, and E-Commerce, B2C strongly preferred.

• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics, Power Platform, and Azure a plus.

• Experience working with large data sets and analytics tools like SPS commerce, Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, etc.

• PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, Six Sigma, or similar certifications a plus.

• Comfortable working within a fast-paced, rapidly growing company.

• Technologist that has a pulse on the latest trends and market landscape and understands the capabilities of the Technology team.

• A change agent who challenges the status quo.

• Results-oriented, detailed, energetic, and focused with a strong desire to learn and succeed.

• Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.

• Builds partnerships and works collaboratively across the organization with others to meet shared objectives.

• Relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions.

Additional Information

Our investment in you:

At Vuori, we're proud to offer the following to our employees;

• Health Insurance

• Savings and Retirement Plan

• Employee Assistance Program

• Generous Vuori Discount & Industry Perks

• Paid Time Off

• Wellness & Fitness benefits

The salary range for this role is $180,000 per year - $210,000 per year.

This role is bonus eligible.

Vuori is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.