Portfolio Director

Yoh; Malvern (Chester County); On-site; USD 87,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision

Health Savings Account

Life & Disability Insurance

MetLife Voluntary Benefits

Employee Assistance Program

401K Retirement Savings Plan

Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll

Referral Bonus Programs

Certification and training

Job summary

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, seeks a Director of Portfolio in Malvern, PA to lead the Portfolio Office responsible for intake, routing, resourcing, budgeting, and vendor management in an AI-first delivery model. The Director manages a staff of Business Analysts and Project Managers (consultants and FTEs) and partners with the CIO to design the function’s long-term shape.

This senior role demands strong governance, cross-functional leadership, and proven experience in budgeting, lean

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 8 years of IT portfolio, program, or project management experience.
• Minimum 3 years of management experience, including management of blended consultant/FTE teams.
• Demonstrated experience with IT budgeting (OPEX/CAPEX), vendor and contract management, and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated experience designing or restructuring a function, including workforce planning and consultant transition, strongly preferred.
• Experience with lean/flow-based delivery models and AI-enabled/startup delivery environments preferred; business analysis background a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage the current Business Analyst and Project Manager staff, including work assignment, performance management, development, and oversight.
• Evaluate and recommend long-term staffing design of the Portfolio Office, including FTE roles and consultant seat sequencing.
• Assess enterprise demand for pre-SDLC business support and organizational project management outside the SDLC; quantify demand and staffing model.
• Own the consultant drawdown for portfolio, business analysis, and project management seats; define capability/efficiency gates.
• Own portfolio intake and demand management; ensure clear owner, outcome, and risk tier for initiatives.
• Route work into the three-lane delivery model with engineering Directors; monitor lane capacity.
• Maintain the confounder register as a portfolio asset; manage dependencies and risks.
• Maintain portfolio of IT projects, vendors, assets; manage monthly status reporting and budgets.
• Own IT budget management across OPEX and CAPEX; forecasting and variance analysis.
• Manage vendor contracts; renewals, terminations; consolidate to reduce cost and burden.
• Oversee IT procurement governance and alignment to architecture and security standards.
• Lead vendor management with performance scorecards and escalation in partnership with tower Directors.
• Provide benefits realization and outcome reporting to CIO, Exec Committee, and Board.
• Meet regularly with business owners to keep roadmaps on track and refresh intake.

Skills

Portfolio Mgmt

Financial Mgmt

Org Design

Workforce Planning

Business Analysis

Decision Making

Communication

Relationship Building

Prioritization

Enterprise Perspective

Vendor Management

Contract Management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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General Account of Position

The Director of Portfolio leads the Portfolio Office, accountable for what enters the delivery system, how it is routed, and whether it delivers value. This role consolidates the portfolio management, intake, resourcing, budgeting, enterprise status reporting, procurement, and vendor and contract management accountabilities previously held at the AVP, IT Service Delivery level, and the demand-shaping and resourcing accountabilities of the Director of Project Solutions and Delivery role, into a single director-level owner sized for an AI-first delivery model. This position carries a distinctive early-tenure design mandate. The Director manages the current Business Analyst and Project Manager staff – both consultants and FTEs – and is accountable, in partnership with the CIO, to determine and recommend the long-term shape of the function. This includes: (1) evaluating the enterprise need for pre-SDLC business support and organizational project management assistance outside the SDLC – work that has fallen to IT in recent years[GH1] – and recommending whether, and where, it should be staffed long term, within IT or elsewhere in the organization; (2) determining what FTE roles the Portfolio Office requires long term; and (3) determining the pace and sequencing of the consultant drawdown based on company need and efficiencies gained through the AI-first operating model. The Director's recommendations, developed with and approved by the CIO, will define the end-state design of this function.

In SDLC 2.0, heavy project management overhead is replaced by lane-based routing and evidence-based gates. The Portfolio Office operates the spec-intake front door in partnership with Product Engineering, routes work into the three-lane model at the appropriate risk tier, owns the confounder register as a managed portfolio asset, and gives the CIO and executive leadership a single, truthful view of demand, capacity, spend, and outcomes.

Essential Responsibilities

1. Manage the current Business Analyst and Project Manager staff, both consultants and FTEs, including work assignment, performance management, development, and (for consultants) engagement oversight.
2. Evaluate and recommend to the CIO, on the basis of evidence gathered in role, the long-term staffing design of the Portfolio Office: which FTE roles are required, which functions should be delivered through automation or AI-enabled workflows, and the disposition of each consultant seat.
3. Assess the enterprise demand for pre-SDLC business support (business case shaping, requirements maturation, process analysis) and for organizational project management assistance on initiatives outside the SDLC; quantify this demand, determine whether it is appropriately an IT accountability long term, and recommend a staffing and placement model to the CIO.
4. Own the consultant drawdown for portfolio, business analysis, and project management seats: define capability and efficiency milestones that gate each reduction, track run-rate against the target end-state, and sequence reductions based on company need rather than a fixed calendar.
5. Own portfolio intake and demand management, operating the spec-intake front door and ensuring every initiative enters with a clear owner, outcome, and risk tier.
6. Route work into the three-lane delivery model in partnership with the engineering Directors, monitoring lane capacity and rebalancing as priorities shift.
7. Own and maintain the confounder register as a managed portfolio asset, ensuring cross-initiative dependencies, assumptions, and interference risks are visible and actively managed.
8. Maintain the current portfolio of IT projects, vendors, and assets, including day-to-day IT budget tracking and the monthly enterprise status reporting process.
9. Own IT budget management across OPEX and CAPEX for shared services and the portfolio, including forecasting, variance analysis, and capitalization treatment.
10. Manage enterprise contracts, renewals, and terminations; maintain the contract repository and renewal calendar; recommend consolidations that reduce operational cost and support burden, including execution of the software portfolio rationalization savings targets. (Third-party risk accountability for these vendors resides with the Director, Security & Governance; this position owns the commercial and lifecycle dimensions.)
11. Own IT procurement governance, including purchase intake, approval workflow, and alignment of purchases to architecture and security standards.
12. Own vendor management discipline on the commercial and performance dimensions: performance scorecards, relationship cadence, and escalation for strategic vendors, in partnership with the accountable tower Directors and with risk input from Security & Governance.
13. Provide benefits realization and outcome reporting, connecting delivered work to business value for the CIO, Executive Committee, and Board materials.
14. Meet regularly with business owners to ensure roadmaps remain on track, documenting changes and feeding them back into intake and routing.
15. Perform employee evaluations and reviews for direct reports, documenting as necessary.

Transition (Bridge) Responsibilities

1. Take documented handoff of portfolio, budgeting, enterprise status reporting, procurement, and contract management practices previously governed at the AVP, IT Service Delivery level, verifying signature authority and renewal calendars have no gaps.
2. Assume management of the existing Business Analyst and Project Manager staff (consultants and FTEs) carried over from the Project Solutions and Delivery function, establishing a current-state baseline of work types, demand sources, and effort allocation within the first 90 days.
3. Deliver to the CIO, within the first two quarters, a function design recommendation covering: long-term FTE roles for the Portfolio Office; the disposition and sequencing of each consultant seat with capability/efficiency gate criteria; and a recommendation on whether pre-SDLC business support and non-SDLC organizational project management should be staffed within IT, elsewhere in the organization, or wound down.
4. Stand up the confounder register and lane-capacity reporting as standing portfolio artifacts within the first 90 days.

Other Responsibilities

1. Proactively manage the supply and demand of IT services across the portfolio.
2. Support audit requests related to procurement, contracts, and portfolio controls.
3. Other duties as assigned.

Required Competencies

1. Portfolio and Financial Management
2. Organizational Design and Workforce Planning
3. Business Analysis
4. Decision Making
5. Communication
6. Relationship Building
7. Prioritization and Time Management
8. Enterprise Perspective
9. Vendor and Contract Management
10. Leadership
11. Strive to reflect our five cultural values in all efforts: Put the Customer First, Do What You Say, Work Together, Be Innovative and Do the Right Thing.

Education and Experience

1. Bachelor's degree required.
2. Minimum 8 years of IT portfolio, program, or project management experience.
3. Minimum 3 years of management experience, including management of blended consultant/FTE teams.
4. Demonstrated experience with IT budgeting (OPEX/CAPEX), vendor and contract management, and executive reporting.
5. Demonstrated experience designing or restructuring a function, including workforce planning and consultant transition, strongly preferred.
6. Experience with lean/flow-based delivery models and AI-enabled/startup delivery environments preferred; business analysis background a plus.

Special Working Conditions and Physical Demands

1. Non-traditional work hours may be required on an emergency, pre-scheduled, or project basis.
2. Be able to support multiple business locations, either remotely or in person as needed.

Organizational Relationships

1. This position reports to the SVP & Chief Information Officer.
2. Business Analysts and Project Managers (consultants and FTEs), and portfolio and procurement coordination staff, report to this position.
3. This position is accountable, jointly with the CIO, for recommending the long-term design of the Portfolio Office, including FTE roles, consultant drawdown, and the placement of pre-SDLC and non-SDLC support functions.
4. This position partners closely with all tower Directors and the VP, Product & Platform Engineering.

Estimated Min Rate: $63.00

Estimated Max Rate: $90.00

Benefits include:

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• MetLife Voluntary Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan
• Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
• Referral Bonus Programs
• Certification and training opportunities

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.

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