Company DescriptionRalph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands. At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position OverviewThe Portfolio Manager will bring a mixture of business process / solutions understanding, project management competence and experience within RL to the team. The role will be to manage the activities of the project management team as they capture the artefacts required. It will also be responsible for setting up the project management processes and standards across the team, working closely with the technology, business and consulting partners to ensure consistency across the program. This role will take responsibility for activities defined below.
- Manage day-to-day leadership decisions by securing and comparing information from multiple sources to identify issues.
- Identify focus areas, provide escalation management, negotiation skills, and balance the business needs and the technical constraints.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for technology decisions and prioritization.
- Lead portfolio planning processes for the workstreams which align business and IT strategies and drive focus and prioritization within the organization.
- Create yearly and quarterly roadmap, track progress against established baseline, and manage communication with Business, product, executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Lead Project Managers who will work with Technology & Business stakeholders to manage critical projects.
- Inspire and create engagement by developing and motivating and guiding the team to achieve results together.
- Coach and mentor project managers to develop a great team and achieve success.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities- Work with all the necessary teams across IT, business and vendor to ensure the scope is in alignment, roles and responsibilities are clear, a plan exists, and everyone is aware of their milestones.
- Ensure that the project celebrates success.
- Create a program management framework that can be adopted to ensure that the program objectives are met. This will include agreed review points for all activities.
- Develop and manage project plans, including timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
- Coordinate and lead project meetings, ensuring all stakeholders are informed and engaged.
- Monitor project progress and adjust as needed to ensure successful completion.
- Identify and mitigate project risks and issues.
- Communicate project status, updates, and changes to stakeholders and senior management.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project alignment with organizational goals.
- Manage project budgets and resources, ensuring efficient use of company assets.
- Conduct post-project evaluations to identify areas for improvement and share lessons learned.
- Ensure that processes exist for the reporting of the project activities, budget, risks, issues and that this is coordinated across the teams and meets the expectations of all stakeholders.
- Foster an open approach to reporting, ensuring that the status is clear, the tools are easy to use and there is an open culture to report on the project status.
- Align program management techniques and reporting across all the external parties that will be part of the program, with the intent to create a common reporting approach. Ensure that a program PMO exists that coordinates all reporting across all parties.
- Provide timely escalation of issues and risks to ensure that appropriate remediation can take place.
- Ensure that any external reporting required for operating committees, steering committees and financial reporting are completed to the agreed schedule.
- Maintain the budget of the program, ensuring that this is aligned with the RL finance teams and that all streams are aware of any additional responsibilities as a result.
- Ensure that the correct documentation controls are in place, in the correct repository and that this enables an easy method of sharing information and enables communication to be effective and timely.
- Ensure that the ownership (business and IT) is clear across the various business and system areas and that an approach for the creation of an interim state is clear as well as the migration and ongoing cutover. This will all be factored into the plan.
- Prepare the various teams as much as possible for the upcoming phases. Use the engagement to educate, but also to listen and absorb and represent back the findings of the teams.
- Assist in identifying training needs to facilitate knowledge required by the teams.
- Develop and maintain the overall integrated project plans, including scope, objectives and milestones, deliverables, risks and issues.
- The creation of the plan must include the additional phases post the financial approval of the program, enabling the design phase to be ready to start in Q4 FY25.
- Agree an overall approach for the capturing of business requirements, documentation, testing criteria in an efficient manner that will allow for a more agile approach to managing change going forward.
Experience, Skills & Knowledge- Project Management, or a related field.
- Proven experience as a Program Manager or similar role.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Proficiency in project management software (e.g., Microsoft Project, Asana, Trello).
- PMP or other relevant certification is a plus.
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