Portfolio Manager IT

About this role

Job Profile: IT Project Specialist 4 Job Family: IT Project Management Time Type: Full time Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Job Profile Summary: Works closely and collaboratively with project managers and product managers to assist with complex tactical tasks for project/product execution; develops and maintains relationships with the project/product team members; is committed to project/product success. Job Description: The Portfolio Manager IT provides strategic leadership and oversight for a portfolio of technology investments, products, programs, and projects within Arizona State University’s Enterprise Technology organization. The Portfolio Manager partners with executive leaders, functional stakeholders, Product Owners, Project Managers, and technical teams to ensure portfolio investments and resources are aligned with university and Enterprise Technology strategies, priorities, and desired outcomes.

Serving as a key connection point between strategy and execution, the Portfolio Manager helps establish and maintain the strategic direction of the portfolio and translates organizational priorities into an integrated portfolio roadmap. The position maintains visibility across product roadmaps, programs, projects, and other significant portfolio activities to understand dependencies, investment needs, resource demands, risks, and opportunities.

The Portfolio Manager facilitates portfolio-level prioritization and planning, helping stakeholders make informed decisions regarding investments, sequencing, capacity, and resource allocation. The position provides high-level oversight of portfolio budgets, monitors portfolio performance, and evaluates progress toward expected outcomes and benefits.

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into university technology products, services, and business processes, the Portfolio Manager maintains awareness of AI technologies, capabilities, opportunities, limitations, and emerging considerations. The position collaborates with functional and technical stakeholders to understand how AI-enabled products and initiatives affect portfolio strategy, investment decisions, roadmaps, resource requirements, risk, and expected outcomes.

Success in this role requires the ability to operate effectively in a highly collaborative, matrixed environment. The Portfolio Manager develops strong relationships across functional and technical teams, facilitates productive conversations among stakeholders with differing priorities, and identifies shared interests and mutually beneficial solutions. The Portfolio Manager must be able to synthesize complex information, communicate effectively with audiences ranging from executives to delivery teams, and provide the transparency and insights necessary for effective portfolio decision-making.

Salary Range: $100,000 - $115,000; DOE

Essential Duties: • Partner with executive and senior stakeholders to establish and maintain strategic direction, priorities, and desired outcomes for the portfolio.

• Develop, maintain, and communicate an integrated portfolio roadmap encompassing relevant products, programs, projects, and strategic initiatives.

• Facilitate portfolio prioritization and investment discussions with executive, functional, product, and technical stakeholders.

• Provide high-level oversight of portfolio budgets, forecasts, planned investments, and resource requirements.

• Establish and maintain portfolio-level measures, reporting, dashboards, and other mechanisms that provide stakeholders with meaningful insight into portfolio health and performance.

• Identify and communicate portfolio-level risks, issues, dependencies, constraints, and opportunities that may affect strategic objectives or successful delivery.

• Facilitate decisions regarding competing priorities, sequencing, resource allocation, and portfolio tradeoffs.

• Collaborate closely with Product Owners and product teams to understand product strategy, roadmaps, lifecycle considerations, and investment needs.

• Connect product, project, program, operational, and strategic perspectives to provide stakeholders with an integrated view of the portfolio.

• Foster cooperative, matrixed working relationships across organizational boundaries by identifying stakeholder needs, concerns, interests, and shared objectives.

• Develop presentations, recommendations, analyses, and executive-level communications to support portfolio planning and decision-making.

• Continuously evaluate portfolio composition and performance and recommend adjustments based on changing strategies, priorities, capacity, risks, and organizational needs

• Leverage AI in routine tasks and contribute ideas for using AI to improve the unit’s efficiency and overall performance.

• Take responsibility for fostering a positive culture, upholding organizational values, and championing engagement in all its forms.

• Collaborate across teams and actively participate in ET/ASU events and programs.

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Desired Qualifications: • Evidence of PMP or PgMP certifications or equivalent of 4 years of project/program management experience.

• Experience managing or providing strategic oversight for a portfolio of technology products, programs, projects, investments, or initiatives in a large, complex organization.

• Strong understanding of the relationships among portfolio management, product management, program management, and project management.

• Experience facilitating prioritization and investment decisions involving competing initiatives, limited resources, dependencies, and differing stakeholder needs.

• Experience evaluating organizational capacity, resource demand, and resource all

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