IT PM, Portfolio & Governance

What We Provide

• Referral bonus opportunities
• Generous paid time off (PTO), starting at 30 days of paid time offand 9 company holidays
• Health insurance plan for you and your loved ones, Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability
• Employer-matched retirement saving funds
• Personal and financial wellness programs
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for healthcare and dependent care
• Generous tuition reimbursement for qualifying degrees
• Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement
• Internal mobility, generous tuition reimbursement, CEU credits, and advancement opportunities

What You Will Do:

• Manages project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and communications across assigned initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and stakeholder accountability.
• Translates financial, vendor, and inventory data into actionable insights and develops repeatable processes, templates, and documentation that strengthen governance and continuous improvement.
• Supports process improvement efforts that improve project delivery, portfolio visibility, financial tracking, vendor oversight, and operational consistency across assigned initiatives.
• Coordinates IT sourcing and procurement initiatives in partnership with Procurement, from requirements definition and vendor evaluation through purchase orders, contracting, renewals, and closeout.
• Partners with Procurement on RFI/RFP activities, bid analysis, commercial negotiations, and sourcing recommendations, ensuring business, technical, financial, and compliance requirements are documented.
• Maintains the IT contract and renewal calendar, tracking notice periods, pricing, licensing terms, service levels, obligations, amendments, and approvals.
• Coordinates with Legal, as needed, on contract terms and risk questions.
• Serves as the primary coordinator for assigned IT vendor relationships, governance meetings, escalations, and action-item tracking.
• Develops vendor scorecards and key performance indicators covering service levels, quality, responsiveness, delivery, risk, and financial performance.
• Leads periodic business reviews, follows up on corrective action plans, and supports vendor consolidation, benchmarking, and cost-optimization opportunities.
• Partners with Finance/FP&A and IT leaders to develop budgets, forecasts, accruals, and variance analyses for vendor, software, infrastructure, and labor expenses.
• Tracks actuals against budget and forecast and reconciles contract, purchase order, invoice, general ledger, and forecast data to improve financial accuracy.
• Identifies financial risks, commitments, savings, and cost-avoidance opportunities and provides clear explanations of trends and variances.
• Supports monthly and year-end close, annual planning, and business-case tracking, ensuring assumptions, benefits, and cost allocations are documented.
• Supports governance and ongoing maintenance of the IT application inventory, including business and technical ownership, vendor, contract, lifecycle, criticality, cost, risk, and disposition data.
• Establishes standards, controls, review cadences, and data-quality measures to keep the inventory complete, current, and audit-ready.
• Coordinates with application owners, Architecture, Security, Procurement, and Finance to validate inventory data and support rationalization, lifecycle, and decommissioning decisions.
• Builds and maintains IT expense dashboards and leadership reporting for vendors, systems and applications, software and licenses, infrastructure, and internal and contract labor.
• Highlights spend trends, forecast risks, renewals, savings, and vendor performance through reporting and analysis.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain/Procurement, Information Technology, a related discipline, or equivalent related experience required

Work Experience:

• Minimum five years of progressively responsible experience in project management, technology project delivery, IT governance, vendor management, technology financial management, or a related function required, including demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives required.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects through the full project lifecycle, including project initiation, planning, execution, risk and issue management, stakeholder communication, implementation, and closeout required.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional technology initiatives involving IT teams, business stakeholders, external vendors, and corporate functions required.
• Demonstrated experience managing vendor relationships, contracts, renewals, sourcing activities, service levels, and vendor performance required.
• Strong financial acumen with experience in budgeting, forecasting, accruals, variance analysis, cost tracking, and collaboration with Finance/FP&A required.
• Strong project management, communication, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills required, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and influence across organizational boundaries required.
• Experience with application or technology portfolio governance, data quality, dashboards, and leadership reporting preferred.
• Project Management Professional certification or a related project management, procurement, or contract management certification preferred.