Senior Portfolio Strategy Manager
Job Summary
The Senior Manager, Portfolio Strategy & Business Cycle Execution oversees end-to-end portfolio strategy orchestration within the enterprise business cycle. This role serves as a central integrator, driving decision-making, governance, and cross-functional alignment across multiple markets. You will ensure strategic initiatives are executed on time, enabling successful regulatory filings and operational readiness.
Responsibilities
- Manage portfolio intake and governance process
- Develop and maintain portfolio roadmaps
- Drive cross-functional decision-making and alignment
- Mitigate risks and manage project dependencies
- Ensure alignment with regulatory filing timelines
Required Skills
- 6+ years program/portfolio management experience
- Expertise in governance and roadmap planning
- Strong dependency management skills
- Executive-level communication
- Strategic problem-solving and analytical ability
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Own the portfolio strategy intake and intake governance process, capturing, vetting, and aligning all initiatives to enterprise priorities.
- Maintain the single source of truth for portfolio strategy, including initiative scope, status, and ownership.
- Lead portfolio planning and prioritization in partnership with local markets and cross-functional business partners.
- Develop and manage the portfolio roadmap, ensuring alignment to filing timelines and broader enterprise milestones.
- Establish and manage the decision calendar, ensuring you sequence and complete all critical strategy decisions on time.
- Drive on-time decision-making by partnering with leadership and escalating risks to timelines or clarity.
- Ensure alignment of all strategy decisions to regulatory filing timelines, enterprise planning cycles, and downstream execution milestones.
- Embed governance through stage gates and leadership forums to close decisions upstream and reduce downstream disruption.
- Identify, track, manage and escalate cross-functional dependencies between strategy, filings, and operational execution.
- Ensure downstream teams (Product, Network, Finance, Tech, Ops, Compliance, etc.) have clear, timely inputs to execute.
- Proactively mitigate risks related to late decisions, fragmented inputs, or misaligned timelines.
- Partner with execution teams to ensure strategy is actionable, sequenced, and implementation-ready.
- Facilitate feasibility assessments for new initiatives, evaluating operational, technical, and regulatory complexity.
- Ensure strategic initiatives are grounded in realistic execution plans and constraints.
- Support trade-off decisions by providing clear visibility into effort, dependencies, and impact.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience in program management, portfolio management, or strategy operations, preferably in a complex, cross-functional environment.
- Experience managing large-scale, interdependent initiatives tied to critical timelines (e.g., regulatory, product launches, or enterprise transformations).
- Strong experience in governance, roadmap planning, and executive-level communication.
- Demonstrated ability to drive decision-making and influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience with dependency management across Product, Technology, Operations, and Compliance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate strategy into execution.
Core Competencies:
- Strategic Orchestration: Connects strategy to execution across a complex portfolio.
- Decision Discipline: Drives clarity, accountability, and timeliness in decision-making.
- Systems Thinking: Understands upstream/downstream impacts and interdependencies.
- Execution Rigor: Brings structure, governance, and predictability to delivery.
- Influence & Communication: Effectively engages stakeholders at all levels.