Product Manager – Portfolio Management
Eliassen Group · Chicago, IL · 1 wk ago
Marketing$75–$90/hrContract
Remote role transforming how a large enterprise plans, prioritizes, funds, and executes work across the organization. The position operates at the intersection of strategy, planning, operations, and execution, treating portfolio management as a product requiring redesign, alignment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead and facilitate annual portfolio planning and budgeting activities.
- Drive quarterly planning cycles and establish repeatable planning processes.
- Define planning frameworks that align investments, resources, priorities, and organizational objectives.
- Establish portfolio governance structures, decision-making processes, and success metrics.
- Partner with finance and business leaders to align budgets, capacity, and strategic priorities.
- Develop structured approaches for evaluating, prioritizing, and sequencing initiatives.
- Facilitate trade-off discussions across competing priorities and limited resources.
- Establish clear criteria for investment decisions and portfolio commitments.
- Ensure business outcomes, strategic objectives, and resource allocations remain aligned.
- Assess organizational capacity against portfolio demand.
- Identify resource gaps, constraints, and investment opportunities.
- Create forecasting and capacity planning models that provide visibility into staffing, funding, and delivery risk.
- Analyze budget versus capacity deltas and provide recommendations for optimization.
- Conduct a comprehensive assessment of current portfolio management practices, tooling, governance, planning processes, and organizational alignment.
- Challenge existing assumptions and identify opportunities to simplify, modernize, and improve portfolio operations.
- Design and socialize a future-state operating model focused on accountability, transparency, and execution excellence.
- Develop roadmaps and recommendations for implementation.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of quarterly planning, portfolio review, and execution cadences.
- Define the purpose, outcomes, and value of portfolio review and commitment activities.
- Create mechanisms that increase accountability, predictability, and execution success.
- Establish portfolio metrics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks.
- Assess current portfolio management tools and processes across teams.
- Evaluate platforms such as Dragonboat, Jira Align, Aha!, Planview, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, and related solutions.
- Recommend standardized tooling approaches to improve visibility, alignment, prioritization, and reporting.
- Partner with stakeholders to drive adoption of recommended tools and practices.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership teams, portfolio owners, and delivery organizations.
- Facilitate alignment across cross-functional teams, including Product, Technology, Operations, Finance, HR, Workplace, and Corporate Services.
- Drive consensus among stakeholders with competing priorities.
- Communicate portfolio health, risks, recommendations, and outcomes to senior leadership.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Portfolio Management, Strategic Planning, Program Management, or related disciplines.
- Proven experience leading enterprise portfolio planning and prioritization processes.
- Strong understanding of annual planning, budgeting, quarterly planning, and investment governance.
- Experience with resource planning, capacity management, forecasting, and financial alignment.
- Demonstrated ability to influence executives and drive organizational alignment.
- Experience assessing and improving portfolio management operating models.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within large-scale technology organizations.
- Experience supporting enterprise shared services functions such as HR, Workplace, IT, Employee Experience, or Corporate Services.
- Knowledge of Agile Portfolio Management and Lean Portfolio Management principles.
- Expertise with portfolio management solutions such as Dragonboat, Planview, Jira Align, Aha!, ServiceNow SPM, or similar platforms.
- Experience driving organizational change and operating model transformations.
- MBA or equivalent business strategy experience.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
- 401k with company matching.
- Life insurance.
Pay
$75.00 to $90.00/hr (W2 basis).