Experienced Portfolio Manager (Hybrid - Des Moines)

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity within the Benefits & Protection Portfolio Office for a Portfolio Manager who can contribute in an outcome focused agile organization. This is a chance to engage with multiple roles and stakeholders across businesses, functions, technology product families, providing project and portfolio management, and enabling support that helps us accomplish business initiatives together.

What You'll Do

• Lead critical initiatives while working across business functions and technology product families to drive outcome-focused solution delivery.
• Operate within a product leadership team to provide project and portfolio management, supporting leaders, product managers, and stakeholders.
• Lead planning, prioritization, risk, dependency, and investment management to bring clarity, organization, and transparency to business-critical work.
• Orchestrate and strengthen delivery execution across product teams, ensuring alignment and coordination across teams and products.
• Optimize delivery health, predictability, and continuous improvement while advancing shared standards, metrics, and ways of working through agile practices.
• Navigate ambiguity and change while building strong relationships, empowering teams, and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and growth.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of project/program/portfolio management, including experience supporting or leading software delivery in Agile environments.
• Demonstrated capability to effectively oversee numerous priorities and manage delivery for complex initiatives involving multiple teams, dependencies, and stakeholders within a fast-paced setting.
• Proficient in leveraging and tailoring portfolio/project management approaches in an agile outcome driven organization.
• Advanced in planning, organization, prioritization, dependencies, problem solving, and stakeholder engagement.
• Able to work independently and in a team orientated environment.
• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, and influencing abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Expertise in agile, product, and dev-ops concepts, with the ability to adapt practices based on context.
• Demonstrated adaptability and results orientation.

Pay

Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Salary range: $110,200 - $171,000 / year, with market-specific compensation based on geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level. Multiple job levels may apply:

• Portfolio Manager 2: $110,200 - $148,200 / year
• Strategic Portfolio Manager I: $127,000 - $171,000 / year

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) for salaried (exempt) employees providing the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness (no set number of days provided)
• Pension eligible

Schedule

This role offers in-office or hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek).