[Hiring] Senior Manager, Strategic Portfolio Initiatives @Ziphire.hr

Role Description

This role combines portfolio intelligence with hands-on strategic initiative leadership, enabling the I&A organization to both understand portfolio performance and accelerate the initiatives that matter most. The Senior Manager, Strategic Portfolio Initiatives partners with senior leadership to shape, prioritize, and operationalize high-impact programs—while building the analytics and governance infrastructure that drives visibility, accountability, and evidence-based decision-making across the organization.

• Partner with senior leadership to shape, prioritize, and operationalize high-impact strategic initiatives across the organization.
• Establish and maintain portfolio governance structures to track initiative progress, manage risks, and ensure alignment with enterprise objectives.
• Drive cross-functional coordination among business units to advance key programs and resolve execution barriers.
• Facilitate strategic reviews and leadership discussions to evaluate progress, adjust priorities, and ensure effective resource allocation.
• Support long-range planning by translating enterprise strategy into a structured portfolio of initiatives and investments.
• Identify opportunities to improve portfolio management processes, frameworks, and decision-making structures.
• Design and build comprehensive portfolio dashboards that provide real-time visibility into initiative health, resource utilization, delivery velocity, risk exposure, and business impact across the I&A landscape.
• Develop analytics frameworks and measurement models that define how success is measured, tracked, and reported—including leading and lagging indicators, health scoring methodologies, and benefit realization tracking approaches.
• Create executive-level insights and narratives by analyzing portfolio data to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and strategic implications—translating metrics into meaningful business stories for leadership consumption.
• Define and track portfolio KPIs in partnership with governance and strategy leads, ensuring metrics are aligned to business outcomes and consistently reported.
• Design and maintain the portfolio reporting calendar, establishing regular cadences for performance reviews, trend analysis, and strategic planning cycles.
• Conduct ad hoc analysis and scenario modeling to support strategic decisions, business case development, capacity planning, and investment prioritization discussions.
• Partner with business intelligence and data engineering teams to leverage enterprise analytics platforms and build scalable reporting solutions.
• Support executive presentations with data-driven content, compelling visualizations, and analytical narratives that inform leadership decision-making.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in portfolio management, program management, strategic planning, or business analytics within technology organizations, consulting firms, or enterprise functions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from inception through execution in matrixed organizations.
• Experience designing and maintaining portfolio governance structures, including intake processes, prioritization frameworks, risk tracking, and stakeholder reporting.
• Proven capability building executive-level reporting and dashboards that provide clear, actionable visibility into initiative performance and outcomes.
• Strong analytical and data skills—comfortable working with initiative tracking data, resource utilization metrics, and delivery performance indicators to generate insights and narratives.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills: ability to transform complex data and program information into clear, compelling narratives for executive audiences.
• Business acumen and strategic thinking: ability to connect program execution to business outcomes and translate strategy into an actionable portfolio.
• Collaborative and consultative approach with experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.

Requirements

• Proficiency in analytics and visualization platforms (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar) with ability to design executive-level dashboards.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow platforms, Go-to-Market operations data, or similar enterprise technology environments.
• Experience with Anaplan, SPM systems, or enterprise resource planning analytics.
• Background supporting transformation initiatives through data, analytics, and governance.
• BA/BS degree in Business, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent work experience; advanced degree a plus.

Benefits

• Base pay of $148,900 - $260,600, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits.
• Competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure for sales positions.
• Health plans, including flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) Plan with company match.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) and matching donations.
• Flexible time away plan and family leave programs.