Technology Portfolio Manager

What You'll Get To Do:

The Technology Portfolio Manager manages the intake, assessment, prioritization, and ongoing oversight of Information Technology demand and the technology portfolio, ensuring business needs are aligned with organizational strategy, available resources, and technology priorities. This role provides portfolio-level visibility and decision support across demand, investment, capacity, financials, risks, dependencies, and major initiatives to enable informed technology prioritization, resource allocation, and investment planning.

Manage Demand Intake and Assessment

Oversee the intake, documentation, qualification, and assessment of Information Technology demand.
Work with business stakeholders and Technology Engagement Partners to translate identified business needs into clearly defined demand and ensure requests are appropriately understood, evaluated, and prepared for prioritization and investment discussions.
Manage Portfolio Prioritization and Demand Lifecycle

Coordinate the progression of demand through established portfolio processes from intake through prioritization and approval.
Facilitate prioritization discussions, maintain demand status and disposition decisions, and ensure stakeholders have the information necessary to evaluate competing priorities and make informed investment decisions.
Provide Portfolio Visibility and Decision Support

Maintain visibility into demand, approved initiatives, investments, resource impacts, risks, dependencies, and overall portfolio health.
Develop portfolio analyses, reporting, dashboards, and executive summaries that support leadership planning and portfolio decision-making.
Support Capacity Planning and Portfolio Analysis

Partner with Information Technology leaders to understand resource availability, competing priorities, delivery impacts, and capacity constraints.
Analyze portfolio demand against available capacity and identify risks, conflicts, dependencies, and tradeoffs requiring leadership attention.
Facilitate Investment Planning and Portfolio Financial Visibility

Support technology investment planning by maintaining visibility into portfolio financials, funding requirements, planning assumptions, and investment priorities.
Partner with Finance and Information Technology leadership to support portfolio planning cycles and investment reviews.
Coordinate Cross-Functional Portfolio Activities

Partner with Technology Engagement Partners, Project Management Office, Finance, Architecture, Security, Product, and Delivery teams to ensure portfolio information remains accurate, dependencies are understood, decisions are documented, and stakeholders remain aligned regarding portfolio priorities and impacts.
Drive Continuous Improvement of Portfolio Management Practices

Identify opportunities to improve demand management, portfolio visibility, prioritization methods, reporting, stakeholder experience, and portfolio management processes.
Contribute to improvements in tools, reporting, workflow efficiency, and portfolio transparency.
Scope

Responsible for managing the Information Technology demand portfolio, including intake, assessment, prioritization, portfolio visibility, and ongoing monitoring of demand, investments, risks, dependencies, and resource impacts.
Leads and facilitates the processes and provides decision support for prioritization and investment decisions across multiple business functions and Information Technology teams.
Influences technology investment, prioritization, and resource allocation decisions through portfolio analysis, recommendations, and decision support rather than direct authority.
Operates as an individual contributor with no direct reports.
Works across business and Information Technology functions to coordinate demand management activities and maintain visibility into portfolio health and performance

Qualifications

What You'll Bring:

Education & Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Management, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
5 or more years of progressive experience in demand management, portfolio management, business analysis, project portfolio management, information technology planning, business relationship management, consulting, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience managing demand intake, prioritization, portfolio oversight, resource planning, or investment planning activities.
Experience working across multiple business functions and Information Technology organizations in a complex enterprise environment.
Experience supporting executive decision-making through portfolio analysis, reporting, recommendations, and planning activities preferred.

Problem Solving: Complexity of problems

Solves complex business and technology portfolio challenges involving competing priorities, limited resources, conflicting stakeholder needs, financial constraints, dependencies, and organizational objectives.
Evaluates incoming demand and assesses prioritization considerations, stakeholder impacts, business value, risks, dependencies, and resource implications.
Requires strong analytical and critical thinking skills to balance short-term business needs with long-term organizational priorities.
Frequently operates with incomplete information and must develop recommendations and alternatives to support leadership decision-making.

Communications: Key communications contacts (internal/external) and level of persuasion required

Communicates regularly with business leaders, Technology Engagement Partners, Information Technology leadership, Finance, Architecture, Security, Product, Delivery, and Project Management Office stakeholders.
Develops and presents portfolio analyses, recommendations, dashboards, investment considerations, prioritization options, and executive-level summaries.
Facilitates discussions regarding demand prioritization, resource constraints, portfolio performance, risks, dependencies, an investment planning.
Requires strong facilitation, consultation, negotiation, presentation, analytical storytelling, and relationship-building skills.
Must influence stakeholders without direct authority and build alignment across organizations with competing priorities and objectives.

Other Requirements: e.g. Working conditions, physical requirements, travel, etc.

Remote position with the ability to work effectively in a virtual environment in accordance with company policy.
Periodic travel may be required to support planning sessions, leadership meetings, portfolio reviews, and organizational events.
Ability to work across multiple time zones and collaborate with geographically distributed teams.
Occasional work outside normal business hours may be required to support critical portfolio planning cycles, prioritization activities, or leadership decision forum