Principal Portfolio Manager – Supply Chain & Planning Technology [AQ-15310]

About the role

Are you a visionary leader passionate about shaping strategic outcomes through meticulous planning and execution? This is your chance to join a pivotal team at the heart of our client’s technology portfolio, where you will enable confident, strategically aligned decisions across a complex technology landscape. You will strengthen discipline, transparency, and integrated planning, making a tangible difference by connecting strategy, investment, capacity, execution, and measurable outcomes within a highly matrixed environment. If you thrive on bringing structure to ambiguity and influencing critical decisions, this role offers an exciting platform to drive impactful change and see your contributions shape the future of extensive global operations.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and continuously improve core portfolio operating mechanisms, including monthly business reviews, annual operating planning, quarterly planning, and actuals-versus-forecast reviews.
• Clarify inputs, ownership, decisions, outputs, and follow-through to ensure each rhythm drives action.
• Synthesize status, outcomes, risks, dependencies, investment signals, and decisions into a clear portfolio narrative.
• Evolve meaningful KPIs and portfolio metrics that help leaders assess health, act quickly, build trust, and make informed trade-offs.
• Partner across business and technology portfolio teams to align priorities, sequencing, capacity, and expected outcomes.
• Facilitate transparent prioritization and scenario discussions that surface constraints and support enterprise-value decisions.
• Design and govern planning processes across quarterly, annual, and longer-range horizons.
• Create end-to-end clarity from pre-planning inputs and prioritization through decision forums, committed plans, and post-planning readouts.
• Establish and operationalize consistent portfolio intake practices, including entry and exit criteria, decision rights, roles, flow, and governance.
• Align approaches across various sub-domains and cross-functional partners to create a scalable, transparent model.
• Serve as a connection point between the team and broader global technology portfolio teams.
• Translate enterprise expectations into practical mechanisms, represent context and needs, and promote transparency and coordination across organizational boundaries.
• Assess current practices, identify friction or gaps, and implement improvements that simplify work, strengthen accountability, increase decision quality, and improve speed.
• Lead adoption through clear communication, stakeholder engagement, and practical change management.
• Advance portfolio tooling and reporting to improve data quality, accessibility, scenario analysis, and scalable decision support.
• Use automation and AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate to reduce manual effort and strengthen consistency.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technology portfolio management, strategic planning, technical program management, business operations, or a related discipline, including experience operating at enterprise scale.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
• Demonstrated experience leading portfolio planning, governance, prioritization, executive reporting, and cross-functional decision forums.
• Advanced analytical skills and the ability to work with financial, capacity, delivery, and outcome data to develop insights and recommendations.
• Experience transforming ambiguous business questions into structured analyses, options, and executive-ready decisions.
• Strong proficiency with portfolio and work-management tools, reporting platforms, and presentation or collaboration tools.
• Strategic portfolio leadership experience in a large, matrixed technology organization.
• Demonstrated ability to connect strategy, investment, prioritization, capacity, execution, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into concise narratives, recommendations, and decision points.
• Experience designing and leading annual, quarterly, and continuous planning processes and portfolio governance rhythms.
• Expertise with portfolio health reporting, KPIs, risk and dependency management, scenario analysis, and investment or forecast views.
• Proven ability to influence across product, engineering, program, finance, business, and portfolio stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
• Strong facilitation and change leadership skills, with a record of improving portfolio practices and driving adoption.
• Comfort working across geographies, cultures, and time zones with a collaborative, low-ego approach.
• Curiosity and practical experience using automation, AI-enabled tools, or modern reporting capabilities to improve speed, accuracy, and insight.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with supply chain, planning, retail, or enterprise technology portfolios.
• Aptitude with various custom and common portfolio planning, execution and financial applications, including standard office suites and project management tools.

About the Client

Global leader in athletic footwear, apparel, and equipment. Our client focuses on innovation, performance, and marketing, partnering with top athletes and teams. The company emphasizes sustainability and digital advancements to enhance the sports experience.