Strategy Portfolio Manager
Altorfer Cat · Cedar Rapids, IA · 1 wk ago
FinanceFull-time
About the role
The Strategy Portfolio Manager drives day-to-day strategy execution and business process improvement within Altorfer across divisions. This is a hands-on role that personally maintains the portfolio of divisional strategic goals and action plans—ensuring they are clearly defined, consistently tracked, and effectively communicated—while helping coordinate and guide contributors across teams.
Responsibilities
- Personally maintain the portfolio of divisional strategic goals and action plans, keeping them defined, documented, and current
- Collaborate with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) on desired improvement projects
- Aid with program backlog prioritization and communication/collaboration around commitments and achievements
- Run a consistent cadence for tracking progress, surfacing risks and dependencies early
- Prepare and deliver clear updates on strategy, progress, and outcomes for leadership and teams
- Cook up and guide cross-functional contributors, helping translate executive direction into action and managing the change that process improvement brings
- Dealer-Wide Initiatives & Business Process Improvement: Manage dealer-wide customer satisfaction feedback programs end to end—collection, analysis, and reporting. Turn feedback and performance insights into prioritized improvement initiatives with clear owners and measures. Track initiative progress hands-on and report outcomes to leadership
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with IT, Marketing and across divisions to connect technology, analytics, and customer engagement to strategy. Use data and analytics to inform decisions and measure impact
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years previous professional experience in business process improvement, project or portfolio coordination, business analysis, or change management
- Strong organizational, tracking, and communication skills, with attention to follow-through
- Strong understanding of dealership financials to facilitate tracking of program impact on measurable outcomes
- Comfortable working across functions and influencing without direct authority
- An analytical mindset; able to turn data and feedback into clear priorities
- Growth-oriented, with developing leadership and coaching ability required
- Valid driver’s license with clean driving record
Skills
- Organizational and tracking skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Understanding of dealership financials
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Analytical mindset
- Growth-oriented
Benefits
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Pay
Competitive pay
Schedule
Varying schedules and hours as needed