Lean Portfolio Specialist

_VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value and enhancing quality and efficiency across 28 countries, and operating from 6 locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, and the UK.

Over 26,000 highly skilled individuals are dedicated to being Vodafone Group’s partner of choice for talent, technology, and transformation. We deliver the best services across IT, Care, Business Intelligence Services, HR, Finance, Supply Chain, HR Operations, and many more. Established in 2006, _VOIS has evolved into a global, multi-functional organisation, a Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Solutions focused on adding value and delivering business outcomes for Vodafone.

_VOIS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We celebrate differences and we welcome and value diverse people and insights. We believe that being authentically human and inclusive powers our employees’ growth and enables them to create positive impact for themselves and society. We do not discriminate based upon age, colour, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, and national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

• Able to communicate and drive outcomes effectively over multiple seniorities/roles/teams in a large matrix organisation
• Able to constructively challenge and coach
• Deep knowledge the SAFe Framework
• Experience of working in an Agile organisation in a Portfolio mgt. function or Solution Team.
• Able to organise their time over multiple work streams and conflicting priorities
• Self-starter able to work independently and remotely
• Ability to analyse data to see trends and make mitigation recommendations
• Ability to present to senior mgt.
• JIRA and Confluence – advanced understanding of tool features
• MS PowerBI – proficiency in developing and modifying visuals and measures
• Knowledge of Agile frameworks, eg SAFe, Scrum, Kanban
• SAFe, PMP, MSP or Prince2
• Expert in MS Office Suite.

1. Defines and maintains JIRA Portfolio Structure, based on portfolio roadmap from LPM
2. As the portfolio’s LPM SME, ensures portfolio stakeholders correctly apply lean portfolio management methodology and correctly use JIRA and JIRA Tempo:
• Training and coaching of portfolio stakeholders;
• Assurance of RAIDs, governance artefacts and key data points E2E over portfolio flow: analyse data and drive correction, including status report delivery
• Ensures correct execution of portfolio mgt. events (. Portfolio Sync, SI/PI Planning, Demand Review, LPM and delivery daily standups, SOS - scrum of scrums).
• Periodical assessment on overall portfolio delivery KPIs (velocity & efficiency – PowerBI & JIRA) and Capacity and allocation of portfolio resources (Power Bi & JIRA TEMPO) – (contributing to SOS)
3. Drives continuous improvement in the application of methodologies and tools to portfolio governance, shares best practice
4. Being the primary delegated authority of LPM when they are not available
5. Will be flexible in completing these tasks for different portfolios and different maturity stages.

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:

In this pandemic we have 100% work from home for your safety. After this period we have 2 days work from home per week
Medical and dental services
Life insurance
Dedicated employee phone subscription
Special discounts for gyms and retailers
Annual Company Bonus
Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills
You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology
Getting in on the ground floor of and technology changing company
Flexible Vacation – Take time off when you need it, we trust you