For over 75 years, Allstate has been helping protect homes, cars and families across the country.

As the nation's largest publicly held personal lines insurance company, our success is built on an environment where the talents and contributions of every person are supported, respected and encouraged.

IT PORTFOLIO MANAGER - Consultant Senior-Level Opportunity

As an IT Portfolio Manager - Consultant, you will be responsible for maintaining a portfolio of projects in support of Distribution, Marketing & Enterprise Applications - Sales and Customer Service Roadmap.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Developing/maintaining a broad understanding of the business with an in-depth understanding of technology opportunities/issues that impact the business.
• Assists technology and client business leaders in developing, executing and communicating the mission and goals for the portfolio, program or project.
• Works with senior leaders, delivery leads, project and program managers to translate portfolio decision to appropriate plans for and execution of the projects.
• Recommending resource balancing and implementation plans across the all projects, programs and opportunities.
• Monitors and forecasts overall resource supply and utilization and resource constraints.
• Collaborating with business and technology groups to develop portfolio/program health reports and implement improvements.
• Collaborates with technology finance partners on budget planning and reconciliation.
• Leading governance activities for IT and business client management.
• Partnering with the business to establish project prioritization criteria and monitoring portfolio alignment with the business strategy.
• Assessing project tracking activities and reviewing the portfolio/project pipeline with business and technology clients.
• Maintaining the overall issues log, portfolio/program progress reporting, and collaborating with technology managers to resolve complex issues/problems.
• Partnering with business client leaders to develop/track portfolio ROI and publish ROI project/program summaries.
• Reviews reports and communications representing portfolio information prior to sharing with the business client.
• Leading efforts to implement new and/or revised portfolio/program management best practices.

Qualification

• Creativity - Consistently demonstrates a willingness and acumen to generate thoughtful, creative approaches to work.
• Facilitation - Demonstrates mastery of facilitation in challenging situations of a difficult nature.
• Influencing - Demonstrates ability to build consensus and influence clients through leadership, enthusiasm and effective communications.
• Project Quality Assurance - Demonstrates ability to lead a group through quality management tasks resulting in measurable improvements for challenging and complex projects.
• Business Analysis - Grasps and applies advanced analysis concepts to solving difficult problems. Synthesizes and communicates disparate and complex information effectively
• Project Oversight - Demonstrates capability to provide project oversight for large or complex projects and is experienced with project management.