IT Portfolio Analyst

Hunter Industries Inc.; San Marcos (CA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Amazing corporate culture

Beautiful 20 acre park-like campus

On site wellness center

FUN company events

Donation matching and volunteer awards

Career development opportunities and 2

Job summary

Hunter Industries Inc. in San Marcos, CA is seeking an IT Portfolio Analyst to support IT demand governance, portfolio reporting, data integrity, and vendor management.

You will front the IT demand pipeline, qualify requests, aid business case development, and help track value and benefits of IT investments. The role requires collaboration with IT teams and business units, ensuring information quality, and preparing executive reports on portfolio health and delivery performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or IT-related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum two years of professional experience in technical portfolio work with IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Assist with IT demand intake and early qualification of requests.
• Capture information to confirm requests align with IT scope and business needs.
• Ensure requests are strategically aligned with the business unit.
• Quantify expected benefits to support value reporting.
• Support demand prioritization with capacity planning data.
• Gather benefit realization data from stakeholders.
• Maintain portfolio tools, dashboards, and standards.
• Assist with cost views and governance documentation.
• Support vendor management activities and IT service improvements.

Skills

Excel

Power BI

Project management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Business

Tools

ITSM platform

Snowflake exposure

Aha!

ITIL/CAPM certification

Job description

The IT Portfolio Analyst supports the IT Business Office across IT demand governance, portfolio reporting, portfolio data integrity, and vendor management. The role manages the front end of the demand pipeline, qualifying incoming requests, providing basic support for business case development, and helping capture and track the expected and realized value of IT investments. The analyst prepares portfolio reporting, maintains the documentation, tools, and standards that keep the portfolio accurate, transparent, and reliable, and provides supporting assistance with cost views as needed.

Essential Job Functions/Tasks:

• Assists with the IT demand intake process and manages early qualification of incoming requests.
• Captures sufficient information at intake to confirm requests are appropriate for IT to undertake and to screen out work that falls outside IT's scope.
• Confirms that incoming requests are strategically aligned with the requesting business unit.
• Ensures the expected benefit of each request is captured in measurable terms to support downstream value reporting.
• Partners with business unit stakeholders and IT teams to surface the underlying business problem behind each request, including those that arrive already framed as a solution, and clarifies requirements and expectations ahead of intake and qualification.
• Provides team capacity information to support demand prioritization and capacity planning.
• Gathers benefit realization data through stakeholder interviews to support the preparation of value realization reviews.
• Helps maintain and update value and benefit tracking records.
• Prepares portfolio and executive reporting on non-financial dimensions, such as portfolio health, status, progress, and delivery performance.
• Provides supporting assistance with the preparation of cost views as needed.
• Documents governance decisions and action items.
• Maintains portfolio tools, templates, dashboards, and reporting standards.
• Ensures the integrity of project financials and portfolio data.
• Supports maintenance of the IT Service Catalog by identifying gaps and flagging where entries need to be added or updated.
• Recommends improvements to portfolio management processes, governance practices, and reporting standards.
• Provides support for vendor management activities, which may include SLA monitoring, subscription optimization, cloud service brokering, and systems integrator (SI) relationship governance.
• Identifies and tags AI-related initiatives during intake and portfolio reporting; supports tracking of expected and realized value for AI use cases consistent with standard benefit tracking practices.

Education/Training Required and Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or an Information Technology-related discipline, or a combination of education and relevant work experience.

Experience Required and Preferred:

• Minimum two years of professional experience in technical portfolio work and working directly with IT teams, with a functional understanding of IT systems, applications, and tools.

What You Bring:

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and project management software.
• Experience using an IT Service Management (ITSM) platform.
• Strong analytical thinking, high attention to detail and accuracy, and excellent communication skills.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, with the ability to work effectively with people of diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to set expectations and, when necessary, decline or redirect requests that cannot be accommodated, doing so diplomatically and collaboratively in a way that preserves stakeholder trust and working relationships.
• Adaptability and flexibility in response to shifting priorities, recognizing that IT processes and priorities evolve continuously.
• Working understanding of change management principles.
• Self-starter who takes initiative and works with minimal supervision.
• Exposure to Snowflake (development-level expertise is not required).
• Experience with Aha! preferred.
• CAPM or ITIL certification preferred.
• Experience assisting with the development of business cases preferred.

What We Offer:

• Amazing corporate culture - we walk the walk when it comes to our values!
• Beautiful 20 acre park like campus with creek and walking trails
• On site wellness center with personal training, fitness classes and massage
• FUN company events!
• Company donation matching and volunteer rewards
• Career development opportunities and profit sharing bonus

Follow us on LinkedIn, check out our rave reviews on Glassdoor, and learn more about our company culture on our career site: http://corporate.hunterindustries.com/careers

Hunter is a global leader in the irrigation, outdoor lighting, dispensing technology, and custom manufacturing industries. Driving our continued success is the combined energy and talents of the nearly 4,000 people on our team. Together, we create a diverse array of products that can be seen all over the world, from residential landscapes to national landmarks, stadiums, parks, hotels, and municipal buildings.

Hunter Industries and its Family of Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic.

The salary for this opportunity ranges from $84,000-100,000.

The Company complies with all federal/local/state regulations in regard to pay. The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Compensation offered to the successful candidate will be determined by qualifications, prior experience, other job-related factors, and geographic location.