About This Role
This Portfolio Manager role supports the Enterprise Cloud portfolio team, reporting to the Director of Portfolio Management. The successful candidate will work with senior Technology leaders to manage the Operating Expense plan with a strategic focus on expense optimization. The role suits a candidate with deep Opex analytics and financial management experience, attention to detail, and executive presentation experience.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Portfolio team and partners to help define, plan, and build the technology Opex portfolio for Enterprise Cloud
- Manage day-to-day Portfolio activities such as resourcing, financial modeling, trending, and risk & opportunity identification
- Take ownership in managing and ensuring successful financial and operational outcomes across the portfolio - gathering status updates and escalating delivery risks when needed
- Build strong partnerships with technology, finance, and business stakeholders to maintain and deliver against technology roadmaps
- Develop recommendations by connecting the dots between seemingly disparate conversations, workstreams, and data, and synthesizing feedback
- Enable Executive leadership decision making through development and presentation of metrics and insights covering areas of operations, delivery, finance and business
- Collaborate effectively and build key relationships with stakeholder teams to identify and manage milestones and overall plan
- Promote awareness and transparency by keeping stakeholders informed of key decisions and relevant timelines
- Support development of change management initiatives, implementation strategy, and enabling tools/processes
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- Data Analytics and Financial modeling
- 7+ years of Portfolio or Program Management experience in a large technology organization
- Ability to execute and maintain high performance under tight timelines
- Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
Nice to have:
- Superb written and verbal communication; advanced or expert Excel, PowerPoint and visual presentation skills
- Problem solving and root cause identification skills
- Cloud Technology knowledge along with experience with Clarity, Ariba, Vivar, Oracle, Hire and Fieldglass
- Literacy in financial modeling/analysis; able to connect strategy to financial results
- Excellent at building relationships and inspiring others
- Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
- Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
- Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics