Strategic Portfolio Manager

Nature and Scope

This is a senior-level individual contributor role focused on enterprise portfolio strategy and governance, including:

• Ownership of assigned portfolio strategy, prioritization, and alignment to organizational goals
• Oversight and/or direct execution and delivery of projects within a defined portfolio or segment
• Providing transparency of portfolio health, performance, and investment through executive reporting and dashboards
• Leading portfolio governance forums and facilitating executive decision-making
• Supporting cross-functional portfolios (clinical, operational, IT, construction, capital initiatives)

Significant Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Prioritization:

• Establishes and maintains a standardized enterprise portfolio prioritization framework
• Aligns portfolio initiatives to strategic organizational goals and business priorities
• Partners with executive leadership to evaluate and prioritize investments
• Facilitates trade-off decisions based on value, risk, capacity, and resource constraints

Portfolio Governance & Decision Support:

• Led portfolio governance structures and decision-making forums
• Provides recommendations and insights into executive leadership
• Ensures consistent intake, evaluation, and approval processes across portfolios
• Identifies and escalates cross-portfolio risks, dependencies, and conflicts

Portfolio Reporting & Insights:

• Develops and delivers enterprise portfolio dashboards and executive reporting
• Provides visibility into portfolio health, performance, and investment alignment
• Tracks KPIs and performance metrics, ensuring initiative-taking course correction
• Leverages tools (e.g., ServiceNow dashboards) to enable data-driven decision-making

Resource & Capacity Optimization:

• Provides enterprise-level demand and capacity transparency
• Pairs with resource management to optimize allocation across initiatives
• Identifies resource conflicts and drives resolution across competing priorities
• Balances portfolio demand against available resource capacity

Portfolio Leadership & Collaboration:

• Acts as the single point of accountability for assigned portfolio strategy
• Collaborates with the project managers who are working within their portfolio scope
• Manages multiple projects under a portfolio to an acceptable level of risk – managing scope, time, cost, quality, and to stakeholder expectations
• Collaborates across programs, project, operational, and business teams
• Works closely with senior leadership to align execution with enterprise priorities
• Supports ongoing maturity of portfolio management capabilities within the TMO