PMO Portfolio Lead

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery readiness of new projects (sales handoff, talent fulfillment and onboarding, setup baseline governance).
• Act as the primary owner for identifying, assessing, and managing project-level risks across your assigned portfolio.
• Evaluate delivery health weekly and ensure consistent reporting cadence (client-facing and internal).
• Identify cost, schedule, and value realization risks, support mitigation planning, and rigorously track and update Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) logs.
• Own project financials including revenue, margin, and forecasting.
• Serve as the immediate escalation point for complex project roadblocks, intervening before they impact the broader client relationship, while exercising discretion and independent judgment.
• Design and implement early mitigation strategies for identified risk flags.
• Provide clear, data-driven escalations and status updates to Delivery Managers and the Account team to ensure alignment on project realities.
• Collaborate with and support embedded Project Managers to ensure day-to-day execution meets quality standards (influence without authority).

Qualifications and Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required. Preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience managing multi-project portfolios.
• PMP certification.
• Experience coordinating across client and internal stakeholder groups.
• Excellent understanding of project management, including methodologies and best practices.
• Ability to connect portfolio financials, project execution, and business value realization into clear management reporting.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to synthesize portfolio-level insights from multiple data sources.
• Strong facilitation and virtual collaboration skills.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.