GCS Portfolio Manager – Support & Maintenance Jobs at IFS in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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The Global Services Portfolio Manager drives the services growth of IFS by combining domain expertise, commercial acumen, and leadership, in the definition of services to drive customer value.

A Global Portfolio Manager has a clearly defined section of our Services Portfolio under their direction and is tasked with the definition, packaging, and effective release of the Services in our Portfolio. A Global Portfolio Manager proactively drives the transition to a primarily recurring revenue model in Services and is expected to demonstrate hands-on leadership in sales cases as well as being a key interface to the global delivery organization.

This vacancy is for ownership of the “Support & Maintenance” Portfolio area across IFS core products. The Portfolio Manager is a key partner for sales, delivery, and product leadership.

This is an opportunity to get exposure to senior leadership and stakeholders and have an impact on driving the growth of the assigned portfolio offering.

Essential Duties and Accountabilities

The Global Services Portfolio Manager will take full responsibility for their section of the Portfolio, which requires:

• Capable of leading and directing services sales cases, with hands-on solutions and commercial decision-making
• Bring to market world-class offerings that unlock clear, specific, and measurable value for our Customers
• Proactively publishing and maintaining a strategy and release plan (with clear timelines and deliverables as per the Portfolio release cadence)
• Own definition and execution for specific Portfolio topics
• Ensure that all Portfolio items are fully documented as per global standards
• Collaborate with other Portfolio Managers and the wider GCS org to ensure that all offerings are cohesive and fulfill the lifecycle strategy that we are executing
• Provide simple and clear content to effectively enable the sales and delivery organizations including marketing collateral
• Must solicit and incorporate feedback from all key internal and external stakeholders
• Work closely with the Product Directors (GCS Offering Portfolio) to refine and adapt the plan to evolving business needs and market conditions

Overall Required Competence 

Global Service Portfolio Managers are deep experts in their assigned fields operating at the Senior level or above within a Customer value generating role.

​​​​​They must be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the following areas:

• Legacy, Gold, and Platinum support offerings and their differences
• E2e support process executed with the IFS Service Portal and the different resolver groups supporting the customer case resolution

Additional skills and experience:

• Commercial awareness/attitude
• Confidence and competence when working in a matrix organization
• Being proactive and able to deliver results independently as well as collaboratively
• Knowledge of Support Policy, Operations Guide, and Support Catalog and its dependencies of the respective Terms for the support offerings (Gold, Platinum, and IFS Cloud).
• Quality of the deliverables and attention to detail
• Live the IFS Values
• Being aware of the business context and the Customer value through the lifecycle

Essential:

• Direct experience (>5 years) in the applicable Portfolio area
• Relevant Customer facing (delivery or support) and preferably commercial experience in the enterprise software industry

Desirable:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Overall experience >10 years
• Relevant ERP qualifications
• Experience “solutioning” services for customers

Interviews and selections are being made continuously. If you are interested, apply as soon as possible.

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.

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