Director, Enterprise Planning & Portfolio Strategy

Alight Solutions; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 245,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Alight Solutions seeks a senior leader to drive Enterprise Planning & Portfolio Management, translating strategic priorities into a capacity-informed investment plan. You will guide governance, investment decisions, and portfolio health across a large technology landscape.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, collaborate with executive stakeholders, and ensure timely insights, balancing capacity, risk and business value while advancing transformation programs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience across enterprise portfolio management, technology planning, investment management, strategy, business operations, including senior leadership.
• Experience managing large, complex technology portfolios in scaled enterprises.
• Proven experience in investment prioritization, governance, capacity/scenario planning, and executive support.
• Proven ability to move portfolio-management teams beyond reporting toward active leadership.
• Financial and business acumen; ability to synthesize complex data into executive recommendations.
• Experience leading teams and improving PPM processes, data, tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise technology planning and investment cadence, connecting strategic priorities, demand, economics, risk and capacity into an integrated plan.
• Establish prioritization criteria, investment-governance practices and decision frameworks that enable consistent enterprise trade-offs.
• Oversee capacity and scenario planning to frame sequencing options as priorities or available resources change.
• Coordinate business-case enablement, financial and resource-sizing inputs, planning assumptions and commitment baselines for investment decisions.
• Maintain a forward-looking demand pipeline and trigger replanning when enterprise conditions materially change.
• Lead active management of technology portfolios, with accountability for strategic alignment, health, investment performance, capacity constraints, and dependencies.
• Develop fact-based recommendations to accelerate, rebalance, sequence, defer, pause or stop work when portfolio conditions warrant leadership action.
• Establish decision-oriented portfolio governance and reporting focused on implications, trade-offs and interventions.
• Lead and develop Portfolio Managers to operate as proactive portfolio leaders who challenge assumptions and surface enterprise-level recommendations.
• Connect portfolio insights to Program Execution and Enterprise Transformation so investment decisions reflect execution realities.
• Set direction for the PPM management infrastructure required to operate at enterprise scale, including taxonomy, data standards, workflows, dashboards, integrations and automation.
• Ensure a prioritized roadmap is maintained while improving data quality, usability and adoption.
• Reduce manual portfolio administration through fit-for-purpose technology, automation and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Lead a lean, multi-disciplinary organization that includes Portfolio Managers and senior PPM/tooling expertise.
• Influence senior Technology, Product, Finance and business leaders across a highly matrixed environment and challenge investment assumptions with facts and clear recommendations.
• Own the integrated management capability.

Skills

Enterprise portfolio management

Technology planning

Investment management

Strategy

Business operations

Leadership

Portfolio governance

Capacity/scenario planning

Resource allocation

Executive decision support

Financial acumen

Data storytelling

Job description

Alight Solutions seeks a senior leader to drive Enterprise Planning & Portfolio Management, translating strategic priorities into a capacity-informed investment plan. You will guide governance, investment decisions, and portfolio health across a large technology landscape.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, collaborate with executive stakeholders, and ensure timely insights, balancing capacity, risk and business value while advancing transformation programs.