
Director IT Strategy & Portfolio Management - Customer Solutions
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leading and developing the team: Foster a collaborative, high-performing culture focused on outcomes, learning, and accountability.
- Driving strategic alignment: Define and guide portfolio priorities in partnership with Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, and GTS leaders — with a focus on enabling the Technology Leader and their team to deliver impactful, customer-facing solutions.
- Leading integrated planning: Drive the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Program Increment (PI) planning for the Customer Solutions portfolio, ensuring alignment of funding, capacity, and business needs.
- Enhancing the operating model: Establish governance, delivery rhythms, and ways of working that enable consistent, scalable, and efficient execution across product, technology, and commercial teams.
- Guiding investment decisions: Provide portfolio insights and decision support to ensure trade-offs and prioritization reflect business impact and strategic value.
- Managing risks and dependencies: Anticipate and resolve cross-program risks, ensuring continuity of delivery across the commercial and customer landscape.
- Running Quarterly Portfolio Reviews (QPRs): Lead transparent performance tracking and realignment to maximize outcomes and impact.
- Partnering across functions: Collaborate with GTS Solution Leads, Technical Program Managers, Architects, and Business Partners to align discovery and delivery and ensure shared ownership for success.
- Evolving practices: Embed fit-for-purpose frameworks and tools that elevate our portfolio and program management maturity.
- Leading change: Support smooth execution of business transformation, capability enablement, and experience-led innovation within the portfolio.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business Administration, Information Technology or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in IT/Business Systems, with a focus on strategy, portfolio management, and program management.
- 5+ years of experience in a leadership role, managing cross-functional teams and leading strategic initiatives.
- Experience supporting customer solutions (Marketing, Sales Operations, Customer Service...)
- Ability to see the big picture, think long-term, and align portfolio decisions with business objectives.
- Expertise in prioritizing and optimizing resource allocation across multiple projects and initiatives to maximize impact and efficiency.
- You operate as a trusted advisor and force multiplier for senior technology leaders, helping drive strategic clarity, execution discipline, and enterprise-wide alignment across complex portfolios.
- Skills in managing risks, managing change, and ensuring smooth transitions with minimal disruption to ongoing projects and operations.
- Capability to oversee effective program management practices, lead and mentor teams and ensure successful delivery of business outcomes.