Director of Enterprise Portfolio Management

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Position Summary

The Director of Enterprise Portfolio Management is accountable for providing oversight for strategic change management across the enterprise. Specific responsibilities include strategic initiative intake, enterprise demand management, portfolio visibility, and governance of in‑flight initiatives. The role enables executive‑level strategic decision‑making, ensures disciplined due diligence and execution of strategically prioritized initiatives, and establishes standardized workflows, reporting, and transparency in support of enterprise change management and portfolio governance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise leadership for Strategic Initiative Alignment, collaborating with Executive Management and business unit leaders to translate business strategy into prioritized initiatives, programs, and projects, ensuring investment alignment with Simmons Bank’s strategic objectives.

• Partner with business unit representatives to establish and maintain enterprise prioritization of key programs, portfolio dashboards, KPIs, and performance metrics. Monitor portfolio activity, support escalation and issue resolution, and communicate directives and insights between executives and key stakeholders to ensure clarity of direction and visibility into portfolio health.

• Enable timely decision‑making and issue resolution by ensuring efficient information flow across the organization, providing rapid triage of critical portfolio issues, and engaging appropriate stakeholders through resolution and closure.

• Establish and maintain the enterprise governance cadence, including Executive and Senior Leadership forums, to support strategy, prioritization, and investment decisions related to demand management; this includes the creation and facilitation of a Strategy and Investment governance committee as appropriate.

• Management of Enterprise Portfolio Execution, defining standards, processes, tools, training, and communication supporting execution of strategic initiatives; ensure visibility of portfolio processes to executives, governance bodies, and business partners.

• Promote a culture of value realization and benefits delivery, ensuring strategic initiatives deliver expected business outcomes and accelerating benefits realization where feasible.

• Evaluate, adopt, and champion effective enterprise “ways of working” (e.g., agile and hybrid delivery models) to ensure efficient execution and translation of strategic vision into measurable outcomes.

• Leverage business intelligence and analytics to identify portfolio risks and performance gaps, collaborate on solution development, and recommend initiatives to improve operational and strategic outcomes.

• Ensure all portfolio‑related activities, documentation, and practices comply with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures, including completion of required compliance training.

• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Skills

• Executive presence with the ability to establish credibility and influence with Directors, Executive Leadership, regulators, shareholders, and teams; serves as a confident and persuasive voice in strategic, executive‑level discussions.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, demonstrating professionalism, sound judgment, and the ability to clearly convey complex information to diverse audiences.

• Proven ability to exercise discretion and sound judgment when handling highly confidential and sensitive information.

• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to build productive relationships and work effectively across diverse teams and stakeholders.

• Advanced organizational, planning, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to prioritize effectively in a dynamic, enterprise environment.

• Willingness to represent Simmons Bank through engagement in community and external events, as appropriate.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or related fields.

• 8-10 years of project management experience

• 8-10 years of leadership experience     

Computer Skills 

• Microsoft Platform, with proficiency in Excel and PowerApps

• Office 365

• Smartsheet

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• PMP strongly preferred

Other

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.  Activities, duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.    

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