Lead Portfolio Manager

Location: Remote Nationwide

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The Lead, Portfolio Management – Quality Engineering Business Operations plays a critical role in enabling the operational health, planning and financial discipline, and strategic execution of the Enterprise Software Quality Engineering Center of Excellence (COE). This role supports portfolio operations across financial management, vendor governance, resource and capacity planning, operational intake, executive reporting, communications, associate engagement, and transformation coordination.

The Lead serves as a key operational partner to Quality Engineering leadership and works across Enterprise Technology, Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, Enterprise Portfolio Management, and segment teams to improve transparency, execution discipline, and organizational effectiveness in this fast paced evolving environment. This role also helps drive the onboarding and integration of resources transitioning from business segments into the Quality Engineering COEs, ensuring alignment to the organizational operating model, planning processes, and enterprise priorities.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in portfolio management, financial governance, business operations, and executive communications, with a proven ability to drive strategic initiatives, influence decision-making, successfully execute priorities across a complex, highly matrixed organization and deliver results across diverse stakeholder groups.

Key Responsibilities

Agile Portfolio Management & Governance

• Lead Agile portfolio operations for the Enterprise Software Quality Engineering COE, aligning strategic priorities, investments, demand, capacity, and delivery outcomes.
• Coordinate portfolio operating rhythms including PI Planning, Portfolio Reviews, ART Syncs, leadership reviews, governance forums, and planning cycles.
• Partner with Release Train Engineers, Product Managers, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters to improve delivery predictability, dependency management, risk mitigation, and execution effectiveness.
• Facilitate portfolio governance processes to align initiatives, funding, capacity, and strategic commitments.
• Track and manage cross-team dependencies, risks, impediments, and escalations affecting portfolio delivery.
• Ensure Agile, SAFe, and Lean Portfolio Management practices align with enterprise standards and governance frameworks.
• Support OKR tracking, value realization, and continuous improvement initiatives across the portfolio.