IT PMO Portfolio Manager

Vertiv; Westerville (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertiv is seeking an IT PMO Portfolio Manager to lead governance, prioritization, and optimization of the IT portfolio in a dynamic enterprise environment. You will partner with executives to align investments with strategic objectives and manage cross-functional stakeholders across a global organization.

The role emphasizes governance discipline, KPI reporting, and clear visibility into portfolio performance, capacity, and value realization. Some travel may be required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in IT portfolio management, governance, or program management.
• Strong portfolio governance, investment prioritization, and benefits tracking.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders on strategic planning and funding decisions.
• Ability to build dashboards and executive-level presentations that distill complex data.
• Familiarity with waterfall, agile, and hybrid delivery methods.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Global organization experience.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% domestically/internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end IT portfolio governance: demand intake, business case review, prioritization, stage-gate reviews, and reporting.
• Partner with executives to align IT portfolio with strategic objectives and constraints.
• Facilitate portfolio review boards and prioritization forums; ensure decisions are documented.
• Maintain portfolio management standards, policies, templates, and controls.
• Monitor portfolio performance via KPIs, dashboards, and executive reports.
• Identify portfolio risks, bottlenecks, and cross-program dependencies; raise governance recommendations.
• Support resource and capacity planning by highlighting constraints and sequencing options.
• Promote transparency and data quality across the organization.

Skills

Portfolio governance

Executive reporting

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Business/PM

Tools

PMP Certification

PgMP Certification

Lean Six Sigma

Job description

Position Summary

The IT Portfolio Manager leads the processes, forums, and controls used to evaluate, prioritize, monitor, and optimize the organization’s IT portfolio. This role connects business strategy to technology investment decisions, ensures governance is practical and effective, and provides clear visibility into portfolio performance, resource demand, and value realization. The manager works across the organization to maintain a balanced portfolio and support sound decision-making.

Job Description

IT PMO Portfolio Manager

Position Summary

The IT Portfolio Manager leads the processes, forums, and controls used to evaluate, prioritize, monitor, and optimize the organization’s IT portfolio. This role connects business strategy to technology investment decisions, ensures governance is practical and effective, and provides clear visibility into portfolio performance, resource demand, and value realization. The manager works across the organization to maintain a balanced portfolio and support sound decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end IT portfolio governance process, including demand intake, business case review, prioritization, stage-gate reviews, exception handling, and portfolio reporting.
• Partner with executives and business stakeholders to align the IT portfolio with strategic objectives, investment constraints, and enterprise priorities.
• Facilitate governance bodies such as portfolio review boards, steering committees, and prioritization forums, ensuring decisions are documented and followed through.
• Maintain portfolio management standards, governance policies, decision criteria, templates, and controls that are clear, scalable, and fit for purpose.
• Monitor portfolio performance through KPIs, dashboards, and executive reports covering schedule, budget, benefits, capacity, dependencies, risks, and issue trends.
• Identify portfolio-level risks, bottlenecks, and cross-program dependencies, and elevate recommendations for corrective action or governance decisions.
• Support resource and capacity planning by highlighting constraints, demand conflicts, and sequencing options across the IT change portfolio.
• Promote portfolio transparency and decision quality by improving data standards, governance discipline, and reporting accuracy across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, project management, finance, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in IT portfolio management, governance, or program management.
• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, investment prioritization, business case evaluation, risk management, and benefits tracking.
• Experience working with senior leaders to support strategic planning, funding decisions, and cross-functional prioritization.
• Demonstrated ability to build dashboards, governance reports, and executive-level presentations that translate complex data into clear decisions.
• Familiarity with project, program, and product delivery methods across waterfall, agile, and hybrid environments.
• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management, communication, and decision-support skills.
• Certification in PMP, PgMP, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent
• Experience with enterprise portfolio management or PPM tools.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture, cybersecurity governance, data governance, and IT financial management.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust, inspire collaboration, and navigate cultural and geographic diversity
• Experience navigating a global organization
• This role is in the office 5 days per week with the potential for domestic/international travel upwards of 25% annually

About Us

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPLES: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• High-Performance Culture
• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• Innovation
• Financial Strength

VERTIV BEHAVIORS

• Own it
• Act with urgency
• Foster a customer-first mindset
• Think big and execute
• Lead by example
• Drive continuous improvement
• Learn and seek out development
• Promote transparent & open communication

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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