Portfolio Manager (eCom)
adidas · Portland, OR · Today
On-siteFinanceFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- MANAGE DIGITAL DEMAN INTAKE
- Manage the digital demand intake process from idea submission through prioritization, business case support, and funding approval coordination.
- Partner with requestors to ensure submissions are complete, clearly articulated, and supported by appropriate business rationale, scope, benefits, dependencies, timing, and investment assumptions.
- Coordinate review and sign-off routines with business, Finance, Technology, and leadership stakeholders to support timely evaluation and decision-making.
- Serve as the primary point of coordination for new digital requests, technology needs, strategic initiatives, and improvement opportunities.
- Coordinate review and sign-off routines with business, Finance, Technology, and leadership stakeholders to support timely evaluation and decision-making.
- Partner with requestors to ensure submissions are complete, clearly articulated, and supported by appropriate business rationale, scope, benefits, dependencies, timing, and investment assumptions.
- Manage the digital demand intake process from idea submission through prioritization, business case support, and funding approval coordination.
- MANTAIN PORTFOLIO VISIBILITY ACROSS INITIATIVES & PROJECTS
- Maintain a consolidated view of the digital initiative and project portfolio, including active, approved, proposed, and pipeline work.
- Provide portfolio-level visibility into priorities, investments, resources, risks, dependencies, timing, and delivery status.
- Monitor portfolio health and identify issues, risks, decision needs, or trade-offs requiring leadership attention.
- Prepare portfolio reporting, dashboards, summaries, and leadership-ready insights to support quarterly planning, leadership reviews, funding discussions, and operational governance.
- Partner with project managers and business owners to ensure projects remain aligned to approved scope, strategic objectives, funding decisions, and expected value outcomes.
- Maintain a consolidated view of the digital initiative and project portfolio, including active, approved, proposed, and pipeline work.
- MAINTAIN PORTFOLIO DATA QUALITY & PROJECT METADATA
- Serve as the steward of portfolio data quality, ensuring initiative and project metadata is accurate, complete, current, and consistently maintained across portfolio management tools.
- MANAGE PORTFOLIO GOVERNANCE
- Coordinate and facilitate portfolio governance routines, including intake reviews, portfolio health reviews, status checkpoints, decision forums, and leadership readouts.
- Prepare governance materials, portfolio summaries, decision packages, and meeting outputs for leadership review.
- Document and communicate portfolio decisions, approvals, escalations, action items, risks, and dependencies.
- Support accountability for timely project status updates, intake progression, decision follow-through, and governance compliance.
- Continuously improve governance cadences to ensure they support clear decision-making, prioritization, transparency, and execution discipline without creating unnecessary process burden.
- Coordinate and facilitate portfolio governance routines, including intake reviews, portfolio health reviews, status checkpoints, decision forums, and leadership readouts.
- MANTAIN PORTFOLIO TOOLS, TEMPLATES & PROCESS DOCUMENTATION
- Maintain the tools, templates, documentation, and guidance that support demand intake, portfolio management, governance, and reporting processes.
- Develop and improve intake forms, project metadata standards, business case templates, governance readouts, portfolio dashboards, process playbooks, and training materials.
- Ensure portfolio tools and templates are easy to access, clearly documented, and adopted consistently across stakeholder groups.
- Facilitate onboarding, training, and stakeholder coaching on demand intake, portfolio governance, reporting expectations, and tool usage.
- PARTNER WITH BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAMS TO SIMPLIFY WAYS OF WORKING, REDUCE MANUAL EFFORT, AND INCREASE PROCESS ADOPTION.
- Maintain the tools, templates, documentation, and guidance that support demand intake, portfolio management, governance, and reporting processes.
- Build trusted partnerships with Digital leadership, Global Digital teams, functional teams, Finance, Technology, and project delivery stakeholders.
- Support prioritization discussions and provide structured input on portfolio trade-offs, intake readiness, business case quality, and governance expectations.
- Translate portfolio information into clear, concise, leadership-ready narratives that support planning conversations, resource discussions, and investment decision-making.
- Communicate portfolio priorities, governance decisions, process changes, and reporting expectations across stakeholder groups.
Requirements
- SOFT-SKILLS
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to create structure out of ambiguity and translate complex information into clear, practical recommendations.
- High attention to detail and commitment to data quality, process discipline, and follow-through.
- Ability to influence without authority and support accountability across cross-functional teams.
- Strong prioritization skills and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Comfortable working with leadership stakeholders and preparing concise, leadership-ready materials.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
Education & Experience
- 4-6 years of experience in portfolio management, project management, PMO, business operations, strategy execution, demand management, or related fields.