Product Manager - Portfolio Management

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Skills

  • Collaboration
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Operational Excellence
  • Life Insurance
  • Investments
  • Decision-making
  • Optimization
  • Roadmaps
  • Accountability
  • Dashboard
  • Reporting
  • IT Operations
  • Leadership
  • Product Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Program Management
  • Budget
  • Resource Planning
  • Capacity Management
  • Forecasting
  • Finance
  • Facilitation
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Analytical Skill
  • Problem Solving
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Shared Services
  • Agile
  • Lean Methodology
  • Portfolio Management
  • Planview
  • JIRA
  • ServiceNow
  • SPM
  • Organizational Change Management
  • MBA
  • Business Strategy
  • Screening
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Recruiting
  • Taxes
  • Insurance
  • Law
  • Communication
  • Gmail
  • Routing
  • Management Consulting
  • Life Sciences
  • SAP BASIS
  • Military

Summary

Description:
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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.

Rate: $75.00 to $90.00/hr. w2

JN -41

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


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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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About Eliassen Group

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company that provides business and IT services for our clients as they seek to transform and execute strategies that will drive exceptional outcomes. Leveraging over 30 years of success, we focus on professional services, talent solutions, and life sciences. Eliassen Group offers local community presence and deep networks. We are committed to positively impacting the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which we operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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