About the role

  • 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).

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Portfolio Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Location requirements

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