Portfolio Partner, Career Milestones

About the role

The Portfolio Partner supports the day-to-day management and execution of an assigned learning portfolio, working closely with the Portfolio Lead to help maintain portfolio quality, consistency, and operational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support portfolio strategy for an individual portfolio, identifying gaps, overlaps, and retirement opportunities and providing performance insights and recommendations.
• Bring deep SME leadership; interpret business developments and turn them into portfolio implications; facilitate learning interventions in respective SME topic.
• Maintain rigorous oversight of portfolio content integrity and quality standards, ensuring all learning offerings meet the compliance, accuracy, and documentation requirements of a highly regulated life sciences environment.
• Maintain portfolio metadata and tagging integrity to support accurate mapping, searchability, reporting, and day-to-day data quality.
• Escalate portfolio-level risks, quality concerns, or issues that require resolution, cross-portfolio coordination, or leadership attention beyond established portfolio processes.
• Represent the portfolio in working sessions, governance discussions, and cross-functional planning forums as needed to support alignment, decisions, and follow-through on actions.
• Serve as an important operational partner to the Portfolio Lead, helping ensure the portfolio remains current, usable, and aligned to learner and business needs.
• Support time-sensitive business and leadership requests, including urgent updates, launch support, rapid response efforts, and post-implementation reviews within the portfolio.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of portfolio management practices by providing input on standards, templates, governance processes, taxonomy application, and ways of working.
• Support team effectiveness through knowledge sharing, onboarding, and peer collaboration, helping promote consistency and operational continuity across portfolios.

Core Competencies / Personal Attributes

• Portfolio Management & Execution: Effectively manages portfolio performance, risks, dependencies, gaps, overlaps, and lifecycle actions.
• Prioritization & Judgment: Evaluates demand, value, and constraints to make informed recommendations on enhancements, sequencing, and retirements.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Builds and maintains strong relationships across business stakeholders, SMEs, and cross-functional partners.
• Communication & Influence: Clearly communicates portfolio priorities, changes, and recommendations to drive alignment and action.
• Collaboration & Coordination: Works effectively across portfolios and partner teams to address dependencies and reduce friction.
• Strategy Translation: Converts category direction into actionable portfolio plans, curriculum updates, and governance activities.
• Business & Domain Expertise: Applies strong subject-matter knowledge to evolving business needs and learning priorities.
• Curriculum & Pathway Management: Maintains sound judgment on curriculum structure, progression, and learning pathways.
• Governance & Metadata Management: Ensures adherence to governance, taxonomy, and quality standards for optimal reporting and usability.
• Planning & Coordination: Manages day-to-day portfolio activities, timelines, inputs, and partner coordination.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Life Sciences, or a related field (BA/BS or equivalent).
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience with a demonstrated track record in pharmaceutical sales, marketing, or a related field.

Preferred Skills

• Coaching
• Content Evaluation
• Cultural Competence
• Developing Others
• Facilitation
• HR Strategic Management
• Inclusive Leadership
• Instructional Design
• Instructional Development
• Leadership
• Learning and Development (L&D)
• Learning Content Design
• Learning Culture
• Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
• Quality Assurance (QA)
• Talent Management
• Team Management
• Training Delivery Methods
• Training Needs Analysis (TNA)