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.

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

Skills

• Portfolio Management & Execution
• Stakeholder Relationship Management
• Communication & Influence
• Collaboration & Coordination
• Strategy Translation
• Business & Domain Expertise
• Curriculum & Pathway Management
• Governance & Metadata Management
• Planning & Coordination

Benefits

• Consolidated Retirement Plan (pension)
• Savings Plan (401(k))
• Long-term Incentive Program
• Vacation – 120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time – 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado – 48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – 56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – 13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time – up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year