Job Location: Hershey, PA

Summary:
Responsible for managing Commercial Governance for product development projects and advancing Portfolio Analytics to support business prioritization and decision making.

Role Responsibilities:

Portfolio Governance & Process
• Supports Commercial Governance Meetings and Process including confirming agendas, attendees, and material readiness
• Leads CPR PLT Assessment working with BCOs and Acting PMs to ensure project readiness
• Acts as Subject Matter Expert and provides stage gate process guidance within Commercial Governance
• Advises on Process needs and helps to design and implement process improvements
• Supports Accolade project management tool continuous improvement

Portfolio Analytics
• Creates and maintains Decision-Making Analysis and process metrics for Governance meetings
• Owns data gathering process; collaborate with other data owners to connect into enterprise data sources
• Lead development of dashboards and analytical suite for project portfolio and executive review
• Generate insights on portfolio performance, trends, risks, areas for improvement, etc.
• Conduct Ad hoc analysis; develop hypothesis, aggregate findings, and determine recommendations
• Leads data accuracy for project portfolio data in Accolade
• Maintains single source of truth information for all projects

  Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Technical area required
• 2-3+ years work experience in an analytical and/or strategic role involving business processes
• Knowledge of stage-gate process
• Strong data & analytics skills.  Able to collect, transform, and display data using various tools (Excel, Power BI, Alteryx, etc.)
• Portfolio Project Management knowledge
• Attention to detail but capable of broad strategic overview
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Strong ability to influence and persuade decision making at higher levels
• Multifunctional business acumen – marketing, R&D, finance, supply chain.  Experience working across several business functions and with upper management preferred.
• Capable of gaining trust and buy in from peers and leaders.  Mediator and conflict resolver
• Able to communicate with PowerPoint

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