Portfolio and Value Manager

KPRS Construction; Pittsburgh, Northern (Allegheny County, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Koppers Inc. is seeking a Portfolio & Value Manager in Pittsburgh to support portfolio governance, value tracking, and decision making.

You will ensure consistency of data, analysis, and coordination across initiatives under the IT PMO, administering intake, evaluation, prioritization, reporting, and governance processes. Responsibilities include defining and tracking benefits, preparing dashboards, and highlighting risks or variances to IT PMO leadership.

Qualifications

• 4 to 6 years of experience supporting portfolio management, program management, PMO operations, or related governance functions.
• Bachelor's degree in IT or Business preferred.
• Excellent MS Office Suite skills including CoPilot, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, Planner, and Visio.
• Strong analytical ability to consolidate data and translate into actionable insights.
• Experience preparing dashboards, executive reporting, or portfolio materials.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple initiatives, stakeholders, and teams.
• Familiarity with project governance, benefits tracking, risk management and change control.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to present to business and technical audiences.
• Knowledge of portfolio prioritization methods or value management.
• Ability to prioritize work with minimal supervision.
• Minimal travel (0% to 10%) required.

Responsibilities

• Support portfolio governance and value tracking by maintaining portfolio processes, performance reporting, and benefits transparency.
• Enable informed decision-making by providing consistent data, analysis, and coordination across initiatives under the IT PMO.
• Administer portfolio intake, evaluation, prioritization, reporting, and governance processes in alignment with IT PMO standards.
• Support definition, documentation, and ongoing tracking of initiative benefits and expected value realization.
• Collaborate with initiative owners to validate inputs, identify gaps, and elevate risks or variances that may affect portfolio outcomes.
• Prepare portfolio dashboards and reports covering initiative status, milestones, spend, risks, dependencies, capacity, demand, and value metrics.
• Coordinate governance activities such as stage gates, portfolio reviews, approvals, change tracking, and documentation reviews.
• Maintain portfolio artifacts, including demand lists, scoring inputs, funding views, status reports, risk registers, dependency views, and value tracking data.
• Highlight trends, variances, and emerging issues to IT PMO leadership to support timely decisions and corrective actions.
• Maintain portfolio-level views of demand, capacity, and cross-initiative dependencies to support sequencing and resource planning.
• Serve as a day-to-day IT PMO coordination point for initiative owners, program managers, and functional partners.
• Reinforce adoption of IT PMO tools, templates, cadences, and ways of working through guidance, follow-up, and consistent communication.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Written and verbal communication

Prioritization under pressure

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or Business related major

Tools

Excel

SharePoint

Teams

Planner

Visio

CoPilot

Job description

Job Responsibilities

The Portfolio & Value Manager Supports portfolio governance and value tracking by maintaining portfolio processes, performance reporting, and benefits transparency. Enables informed decision-making by providing consistent data, analysis, and coordination across initiatives, while operating under the direction of the IT project management office (PMO). Administer portfolio intake, evaluation, prioritization, reporting, and governance processes in alignment with IT PMO standards. Support definition, documentation, and ongoing tracking of initiative benefits and expected value realization. Collaborate with initiative owners to validate inputs, identify gaps, and elevate risks or variances that may affect portfolio outcomes. Prepare portfolio dashboards and reports covering initiative status, milestones, spend, risks, dependencies, capacity, demand, and value metrics. Coordinate governance activities such as stage gates, portfolio reviews, approvals, change tracking, and documentation reviews. Maintain portfolio artifacts, including demand lists, scoring inputs, funding views, status reports, risk registers, dependency views, and value tracking data. Highlight trends, variances, and emerging issues to IT PMO leadership to support timely decisions and corrective actions. Maintain portfolio-level views of demand, capacity, and cross-initiative dependencies to support sequencing and resource planning. Serve as a day-to-day IT PMO coordination point for initiative owners, program managers, and functional partners. Reinforce adoption of IT PMO tools, templates, cadences, and ways of working through guidance, follow-up, and consistent communication.

Qualifications

• 4 to 6 years of experience supporting portfolio management, program management, PMO operations, business transformation, or related governance functions.
• Bachelor's degree in IT or Business related major preferred
• Excellent with Microsoft Office Suite including CoPilot, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, Planner, and Visio
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to consolidate data, identify trends, and translate information into actionable insights.
• Experience preparing dashboards, executive reporting, status summaries, or portfolio performance materials.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple initiatives, stakeholders, and functional teams in a structured and disciplined manner.
• Familiarity with project governance, benefits tracking, risk management, dependency management and change control practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly to both business and technical audiences.
• Knowledge of portfolio prioritization methods, benefits realization frameworks, or value management practices
• Ability to prioritize work based on urgency with minimal supervision
• Minimal travel (0% to 10%) required

Koppers Inc. and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other category or characteristic protected by federal law, state or local law.

Koppers, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an integrated global provider of treated wood products, wood treatment chemicals and carbon compounds. Its products and services are used in a variety of niche applications in a diverse range of end-markets, including the railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber, and construction industries. With more than 1,800 employees, it serves its customers through a comprehensive global manufacturing and distribution network, with facilities located in North America, South America, Australasia, China and Europe. Koppers is also firmly committed to advancing a Zero Harm culture that places the care and protection of its people, environmental and communities above all else. This focused approach empowers employees to ensure safe operations through a heightened awareness of process safety, product safety, environmental stewardship and security. Koppers was established in December 1988 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and became a publicly-traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006.

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