Portfolio Manager

Job Description

ROLE SUMMARY


The Intersect Group is seeking an IT Portfolio Manager to lead a pillar portfolio of enterprise technology initiatives and serve as a trusted advisor to senior IT leadership. This role operates at the portfolio level, turning delivery complexity into decision ready insights, clear recommendations, and actionable outcomes that protect executive time and drive follow through.


In this role, you will own portfolio shaping, prioritization, financial stewardship, and executive decision enablement. Success is achieved through influence rather than authority, orchestrating work across PMO and non PMO efforts, translating execution into clarity for leadership, and ensuring commitments result in delivered value.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Own and manage a pillar level portfolio of enterprise initiatives from intake through outcomes, maintaining a single executive ready source of truth
• Prepare concise executive pre reads and decision packets with clear recommendations, options, risks, tradeoffs, and decision requirements
• Serve as a day to day portfolio advisor to senior IT leadership, running portfolio cadences and decision agendas
• Drive intake discipline by ensuring initiatives are defined with outcomes, sponsors, business cases, costs, capacity assumptions, and approvals
• Facilitate prioritization and sequencing based on value, strategic alignment, dependencies, fiscal timing, and capacity
• Identify and manage cross initiative dependencies, risks, and resource constraints, escalating with mitigation and decision options
• Translate portfolio, financial, and delivery data into plain language insights leaders can act on quickly
• Track value delivery and benefits realization, recommending course corrections, de scopes, or stops when value is at risk


KEY REQUIREMENTS
• 8 to 12 years of experience in IT portfolio management, PMO leadership, or enterprise program environments
• Proven experience supporting VP and CIO level leaders with executive decision packets and governance cadences
• Strong expertise in portfolio prioritization, sequencing, dependency management, and capacity based planning
• Demonstrated financial stewardship including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and funding tradeoffs
• Experience working across infrastructure, applications, security, data, and vendor led initiatives
• Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex detail into clear recommendations
• Strong influence skills and the ability to operate effectively without direct authority
• Highly organized, disciplined, and proactive with strong stakeholder management capabilities


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• PMP, PgMP, or PfMP certification
• Experience building and operating executive facing portfolio dashboards and KPI frameworks
• Background in large scale enterprise or matrixed environments
• Track record of improving portfolio processes, simplifying governance, and increasing adoption