Portfolio Manager

Job Title: Portfolio Manager
Location:Remote

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a portfolio of complex programs and projects, ensuring alignment with organizational and client strategic objectives.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and coaching to Program Managers and Project Managers to build a high-performing delivery organization.
• Establish and maintain portfolio governance, project management standards, and best practices.
• Prioritize projects based on business value, resource availability, and organizational priorities.
• Oversee project planning, scheduling, budgeting, resource allocation, and execution across multiple initiatives.
• Monitor portfolio performance, project health, risks, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
• Develop and implement mitigation strategies to address project risks, issues, and escalations.
• Manage portfolio financials, including budgeting, revenue forecasting, utilization, backlog management, profitability, and margin improvement.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with executive stakeholders, clients, business partners, engineering teams, and cross-functional organizations.
• Facilitate portfolio reviews, governance meetings, financial reviews, and executive status reporting.
• Create executive dashboards and performance reports that provide visibility into portfolio health, financial performance, resource utilization, and project delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project delivery processes, governance, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
• Ensure effective communication across all levels of the organization and provide regular updates to executive leadership and clients.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• MBA or other advanced degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of Program or Project Management experience.
• 5+ years managing large, complex, cross-functional IT or infrastructure programs within a Professional Services or Managed Services environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams of Program Managers and Project Managers.
• Strong experience managing multimillion-dollar budgets, financial forecasting, revenue planning, and portfolio performance.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent programs while balancing competing priorities.
• Excellent leadership, organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong knowledge of project governance, portfolio management, risk management, and delivery methodologies.