Portfolio Manager overseeing IT initiatives for Kimberly-Clark. Leading governance and performance monitoring while ensuring alignment with business strategy.
Responsibilities
Manage the portfolio of IT initiatives—including programs, products, services, and platforms—ensuring alignment with business strategy and optimal resource utilization.
Lead prioritization efforts, facilitate governance forums, and monitor portfolio performance through financial and delivery metrics.
Ensure alignment of all prioritized work with organizational goals and strategies.
Facilitate portfolio governance processes, including steering committee meetings and decision-making forums.
Work with product teams and leaders to choose projects that match organizational goals, balancing resources with demand and focusing on strategic value.
Collaborate with program/project managers, scrum masters, product owners and business stakeholders to ensure successful project execution and delivery of all initiatives.
Identify and mitigate portfolio risks, ensuring proactive management of issues and dependencies.
Monitor and report on portfolio performance, including financials, metrics, risks, and issues by providing insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
Facilitate the optimization of resource allocation across the portfolio to maximize efficiency and effectiveness.
Manage stakeholder relationships, ensuring clear communication and alignment with business objectives.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Engineering or related field.
7+ years of experience in portfolio, demand or enterprise initiative management
Required experience in Portfolio Management / Demand Management, with clear ownership of portfolio processes (prioritization, intake, governance, execution tracking).
Strong understanding of portfolio governance, prioritization frameworks, and value-based decision making.
Ability to operate in ambiguous, transformational environments, demonstrating patience, flexibility, and adaptability.
High level of stakeholder management and influence, including confidence to challenge, escalate, and hold difficult conversations with senior stakeholders.
Ability to work independently and proactively, acting as an extension of the leader.
Strong communication skills (clear, direct, structured).
Willingness to work on-site in Roswell, given the need for close partnership with the leader.
Experience using portfolio/project tools (e.g., MS Project, SharePoint, Teams, Azure DevOps).
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