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Job Description About The Role Grade Level (for internal use): 13 The Team Digital Technology Services (DTS) is a part of the Digital Solutions corporate function. Within DTS, the Business Management team is committed to achieving optimal business performance, seamless vendor relationships, maintaining sound financial stewardship, and effectively delivering value to our customers. High-Level Role Description The Cross Functional Initiatives Lead and Portfolio Manager is tasked with driving strategic initiatives across multiple value streams with DTS and supporting the Product Enablement and Assurance technology tower within DTS as their Value Stream Manager. This role requires a keen ability to manage complex dependencies, align initiatives with strategic objectives, and foster collaboration among diverse stakeholders to achieve business goals. Responsibilities And Impact - Lead Strategic Initiatives: Drive the creation, development, governance, and execution of cross-functional initiatives, ensuring they align with strategic Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Escalate, track, and eliminate impediments as needed. Provide overall program governance utilizing agile processes to ensure all activities, risks and scope are managed appropriately. - Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with the Value Stream Owner, Product Management, and other stakeholders to ensure initiatives are well-defined, documented, prioritized, and aligned with business objectives. - Agile Portfolio Lifecycle Management: Lead creation of Epics and MVPs, in collaboration with the Value Stream Owner, Product Manager, and Epic Owners. Guide Epics through the Portfolio Kanban, ensuring transparency and alignment with strategic priorities and objectives. Presents Epics to Lean Portfolio Management stakeholders for Go/No-Go and helps decide when an Epic is done. - Risk Mitigation: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and dependencies across value streams, ensuring seamless execution of initiatives. Escalate risks and issues to the appropriate channels ensuring that stakeholders are proactively informed. - Cross-Functional Coordination: Facilitate collaboration among various teams and stakeholders to ensure cohesive execution of initiatives/epics and effective communication of progress and outcomes. - Health Reporting: Provide regular updates and health reporting on initiatives to senior leadership, highlighting progress, risks, and opportunities for improvement. What We're Looking For Basic Required Qualifications - Diploma or degree in a technical discipline or similar. - Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in leading cross-functional initiatives and managing a technology project portfolio. - Knowledge of Technology Infrastructure and/or the software development life cycle (SDLC); understand other engineering processes and methodologies and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise. - Proven ability to work with and manage cross functional stakeholders up to and including executive leadership. - Ability to see the big picture and guide decisions to align with business goals and outcomes. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex information effectively to senior leadership. - Experience in identifying and mitigating cross-value stream/functional risks and dependencies. - Demonstrated customer focus and ability to deliver value. Additional Preferred Qualifications - Demonstrated experience in agile portfolio management, preferably within the Scaled Agile Framework. - Certification in one or more of the following: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), SAFe Agilist, Certified Agile Portfolio Manager (ICP-APM), SAFe Practitioner, SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager. - Familiarity with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and their application within portfolio management. - Experience in facilitating, leading, influencing, and managing within a large-scale, globally distributed organization. What's In It For You Our Purpose Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technologythe right combination can unlock possibility and change the world. Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress. Our People We're more than 35,000 strong worldwideso we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all. From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We're committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. 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Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision - https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf 10 - Officials or Managers (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH103.2 - Middle Management Tier II (EEO Job Group), SWP Priority Ratings - (Strategic Workforce Planning) Job ID: 318691 Posted On: 2025-10-07 Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India