Portfolio Manager - Municipal Team

About the role

The Portfolio Manager is a senior technical leader within the Municipal Team responsible for overseeing a portfolio of complex municipal infrastructure projects, developing project managers, and strengthening client relationships. This role focuses on portfolio performance, strategic client advisory, business growth, and technical quality rather than day-to-day project delivery. The Portfolio Manager partners with public agencies and internal teams to drive successful outcomes, grow the municipal practice, and support the development of future leaders.

Responsibilities

• Technical Delivery & Discipline Expertise: Apply technical expertise in a review and advisory capacity; validate technical approaches and QA/QC frameworks across the portfolio. Personal technical execution is reduced to approximately 25% or less — primary value is judgment and oversight, not production. Identify technical risks across the portfolio and direct corrective action.
• Project Scope & Schedule Management: Oversee scope and schedule performance across a portfolio of concurrent projects. Identify systemic schedule or scope risks and intervene at the project level when needed. Ensure PMs within the portfolio are developing, maintaining, and executing project plans.
• Financial & Commercial Management: Manage area-level financial performance across the portfolio: margin, revenue, write-offs, and contract compliance. Ensure Technical PMs within the portfolio are managing finances effectively and escalate systemic issues. Contribute to annual revenue planning, backlog management, and growth targets.
• Client & Stakeholder Management: Lead strategic client relationships for key accounts or high-value clients in the portfolio. Support Technical PMs in client escalations and relationship development. Identify opportunities for expanded scope and cross-selling in coordination with BD leaders.
• Quality & Risk Management: Establish and enforce QA/QC standards across the portfolio. Identify portfolio-level technical, financial, and client risks and develop mitigation strategies. Drive lessons-learned integration across projects.
• Business Development: Lead or co-lead pursuit strategy for major opportunities in the area or discipline. Build strategic client relationships that generate repeat business and expanded scope.
• People & Team Development: Develop Technical PM capability across the portfolio; coach PMs on project management skills, financial management, and client relationships. Contribute to staffing, hiring, and succession planning.

Requirements

• Technical Discipline Expertise
• Financial Management
• Client Relationship Management
• Risk Management
• QA/QC Oversight
• Business Development
• AI-Enabled Decision Support
• A Bachelor's degree is preferred. A PE or discipline-specific certification is preferred (varies by discipline).

Benefits

• Flexible Work Environment
• Paid Parental Leave
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Paid Time Off + Holidays

Pay

Salary Range $172,000k/yr - $222,000k/yr