IT Portfolio Manager

Description: Remote Our client seeks an experienced Product Manager - Portfolio Management to transform how a large enterprise plans, prioritizes, funds, and executes work across the organization. The role operates at the intersection of strategy, planning, operations, and execution, treating portfolio management as a product requiring redesign, alignment, adoption, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate brings a background in portfolio management, product management, strategic planning, and operational excellence, and will partner with leaders to create a more effective and predictable planning and delivery model.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and facilitate annual portfolio planning and budgeting activities.
• Drive quarterly planning cycles and establish repeatable planning processes.
• Define planning frameworks that align investments, resources, priorities, and organizational objectives.
• Establish portfolio governance structures, decision-making processes, and success metrics.
• Partner with finance and business leaders to align budgets, capacity, and strategic priorities.
• Develop structured approaches for evaluating, prioritizing, and sequencing initiatives.
• Facilitate trade-off discussions across competing priorities and limited resources.
• Establish clear criteria for investment decisions and portfolio commitments.
• Ensure business outcomes, strategic objectives, and resource allocations remain aligned.
• Assess organizational capacity against portfolio demand.
• Identify resource gaps, constraints, and investment opportunities.
• Create forecasting and capacity planning models that provide visibility into staffing, funding, and delivery risk.
• Analyze budget versus capacity deltas and provide recommendations for optimization.
• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of current portfolio management practices, tooling, governance, planning processes, and organizational alignment.
• Challenge existing assumptions and identify opportunities to simplify, modernize, and improve portfolio operations.
• Design and socialize a future-state operating model focused on accountability, transparency, and execution excellence.
• Develop roadmaps and recommendations for implementation.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of quarterly planning, portfolio review, and execution cadences.
• Define the purpose, outcomes, and value of portfolio review and commitment activities.
• Create mechanisms that increase accountability, predictability, and execution success.
• Establish portfolio metrics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks.
• Assess current portfolio management tools and processes across teams.
• Evaluate platforms such as Dragonboat, Jira Align, Aha!, Planview, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, and related solutions.
• Recommend standardized tooling approaches to improve visibility, alignment, prioritization, and reporting.
• Partner with stakeholders to drive adoption of recommended tools and practices.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership teams, portfolio owners, and delivery organizations.
• Facilitate alignment across cross-functional teams, including Product, Technology, Operations, Finance, HR, Workplace, and Corporate Services.
• Drive consensus among stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Communicate portfolio health, risks, recommendations, and outcomes to senior leadership.

Experience Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Portfolio Management, Strategic Planning, Program Management, or related disciplines.
• Proven experience leading enterprise portfolio planning and prioritization processes.
• Strong understanding of annual planning, budgeting, quarterly planning, and investment governance.
• Experience with resource planning, capacity management, forecasting, and financial alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives and drive organizational alignment.
• Experience assessing and improving portfolio management operating models.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

Preferred:

• Experience within large-scale technology organizations.
• Experience supporting enterprise shared services functions such as HR, Workplace, IT, Employee Experience, or Corporate Services.
• Knowledge of Agile Portfolio Management and Lean Portfolio Management principles.
• Expertise with portfolio management solutions such as Dragonboat, Planview, Jira Align, Aha!, ServiceNow SPM, or similar platforms.
• Experience driving organizational change and operating model transformations.
• MBA or equivalent business strategy experience.

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