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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading complex programs and portfolios, with a strong focus on strategic portfolio management, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. Proven ability to translate strategic goals into actionable plans while facilitating collaboration across functions and managing change effectively.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Program ManagementStrategic Portfolio ManagementRisk ManagementStakeholder ManagementChange Management
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Hard Skills
Program PlanningGovernance StructuresDependency ManagementResource AllocationOutcome MeasurementExecutive ReportingBusiness Impact AssessmentMitigation PlanningOperational ReadinessCross-Functional Leadership
Soft Skills
Communication SkillsRelationship BuildingFacilitation SkillsAnalytical SkillsPresentation Skills
Industry Keywords
Enterprise TransformationGlobal OperationsTechnology-Enabled ChangeProgram ObjectivesDecision-Making Structures
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Partner with executive sponsors and functional leaders to define program objectives, outcomes, scope, success measures, and decision-making structures
- Own and manage a portfolio of programs and projects, tracking priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes
- Lead cross-functional programs from intake and prioritization through planning, execution, transition, and sustainment
- Support portfolio prioritization by assessing strategic alignment, value, effort, capacity, timing, and delivery risk
- Build and maintain integrated program plans, roadmaps, milestones, governance routines, and accountability
- Coordinate interdependent workstreams and resolve sequencing, ownership, and resource conflicts
- Maintain accurate and actionable views of status, decisions, assumptions, risks, issues, and plan changes
- Identify risks and emerging issues, assess business impact, and develop mitigation and contingency plans
- Escalate decisions and risks with context, options, implications, and recommendations
- Prepare executive updates, decision materials, and detailed working-level reporting
- Facilitate collaboration across functions and levels through ambiguity and change
- Track scope, timing, and outcome changes; communicate impacts and guide change control and re-planning
- Align with other program and project managers, share lessons learned, and strengthen the portfolio view
- Support delivery and transition of complex business and technology initiatives, including operational readiness and handoff
Requirements
What you’ll need- 5+ years of experience leading complex programs or portfolios spanning multiple functions, teams, or regions
- 2+ years of experience with strategic portfolio management
- Ability to translate strategic goals into practical plans, measurable outcomes, governance, and clear ownership
- Experience supporting prioritization and resource trade-off decisions across competing initiatives
- Strong command of dependency, risk, issue, change, and stakeholder management
- Ability to communicate from detailed workstream updates to concise executive briefings and decision requests
- Track record of building trust and productive working relationships across functions, including with senior leaders
- Ability to lead through ambiguity and change in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to facilitate difficult conversations and communicate a clear point of view
- Strong written, verbal, analytical, and presentation skills
- Experience with enterprise transformation, global operations, or technology-enabled business change is valuable
- Authorization to work in the United States is requested in the application
Benefits
Comp & perks- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Generous paid time off policy
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Employee Assistance Program, including access to mental health services
- 401(k) including employer match
- Pet insurance
- Region-specific health and welfare benefits
