Strategic Portfolio Manager

Job Duties

• Collaborates with functional leadership to translate strategic priorities into clear, tangible actions and well-defined business cases, defining the portfolio backlog and roadmap.
• Serves as the liaison between business units, FP&A, and technology departments, to ensure initiatives are appropriately broken into milestones and supported by technology solutions.
• Participates in technology solution planning to help ensure technical capabilities align with strategic requirements, business priorities, and investment priorities.
• Identifies patterns and trends across initiatives, bringing people and teams together to collaboratively build lasting, sustainable solutions.
• Effectively builds, develops, and manages relationships across all stakeholders, including senior leaders, to align expectations and support initiative success.
• Maintains oversight and coordinates the execution of multiple strategic initiatives at a portfolio level, tracking progress and escalating risks to leadership.
• Serves in a consultative capacity by supporting teams on deliverables and providing guidance on solution design and execution best practices.
• Detects gaps or weaknesses in plans or execution and proactively propose mitigation strategies to address risks and improve outcomes.
• Works with stakeholders to define business value, tracks progress, and sees initiatives through to completion.
• Analyzes and understands the financial impacts of initiatives, linking project milestones to organizational financial goals.
• Presents regular comprehensive reports on portfolio status, initiative health, risks, and opportunities for executive leadership.
• Supports the ideation and development of strategic initiatives as needed.
• Provides data-driven recommendations to leadership regarding initiative performance — advocating continuation, modification, or discontinuation as appropriate.
• Supports the development and refinement of portfolio governance standards and processes.
• Supports strategy workshops and brainstorming sessions with the leadership teams.
• Manages the research and development of content, and organizes strategic discussions across departments related to Motion’s strategy.
• Participates in the long-range forecasting and strategic planning processes.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on portfolio management activities.
• Supports executive-level strategic workshops and portfolio steering committee meetings.
• Supports organizational capability building in portfolio and program management practices.
• Supports change management and stakeholder engagement activities related to portfolio initiatives.

Requirements

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, project management, finance or a related field; MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• At least five (5) years of experience in strategy, strategic management and/or project/portfolio management, ideally in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience leading large-scale, cross-functional projects preferably in an agile environment.
• Proven experience working at the interface of business strategy, finance, and technology functions.

Skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools (including Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint), portfolio management software/tools and ability to utilize automated functionality/tools to create efficiencies.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and collaborate with senior leadership.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of influencing across all levels of an organization.
• Ability to navigate and coordinate between technology teams and business stakeholders effectively.
• Extensive knowledge of project and portfolio management tools and methodologies, agile methodologies, change management principles, and organizational design.
• Ability to resolve conflicts and creatively solve problems with limited input and resources in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Ensure collaboration and information sharing among business owners and delivery teams through transparency and effective communication driving execution of initiatives.
• Strong story-telling skills in developing clear and concise presentations and documents for executive and leadership audiences.
• Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills, and ability to build effective and collaborative business relationships.
• Strong critical listening skills to be able to listen and determine the essence of what is being said.
• Ability to operate with autonomy and ambiguity, adapting to changing market conditions and business needs.
• Self-managed and self-motivated; ability to support and work on multiple overlapping projects.
• Personal integrity and an ability to maintain confidentiality of company and client information.
• Visionary mindset to identify trends, define target markets, and develop long-term strategies.
• Analytical mindset to identify risks, track dependencies, and ensure alignment with financial and strategic goals.
• Strong understanding of financial concepts related to project and portfolio management, including budgeting, forecasting, and KPI development.
• Proven analytical and quantitative skills and an ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.

Physical Demands

• Travel up to 20% of the time.

Benefits

• Excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.