Manager Transmission Portfolio Management - Portfolio Management - Akron FirstEnergy Headquarters

About The Opportunity

The Manager, Transmission Portfolio Strategy & Execution leads a team responsible for planning, governing, and managing FirstEnergy's Transmission Capital Portfolio, including the development of the five-year capital plan (approximately $3B annually) while overseeing the technical review, financial approval, and execution release of the annual portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of portfolio management professionals.
• Foster an environment that promotes employee engagement, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate and lead discussions with stakeholder groups to evaluate, prioritize, and onboard projects into the long-term capital plan.
• Ensure portfolio investments align with long-term strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and asset management plans.
• Balance portfolio priorities to support evolving business needs while maintaining alignment with approved long-range plans.
• Cook up and execute projects from initiation to project design and construction.
• Establish and maintain portfolio controls, analytics, performance metrics, and reporting for the Transmission Capital Portfolio.
• Support forecasting of investments, labor, contractor, equipment, and material requirements.
• Ensure effective project change management is followed, documented, properly incorporated into the transmission portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in project, program, engineering, or portfolio management; equivalent experience will be considered.
• Previous leadership or supervisory experience preferred.
• Engineering design, project scoping & estimating, transmission planning, or project management experience is preferred.
• Strong project management, forecasting, and analytical skills.
• Experience with Primavera, EcoSys, Oracle OPPM / Unifier, MS PowerBI or similar portfolio management tools preferred.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership capabilities.