Portfolio & Value Manager — PMO Insight & Delivery

Koppers Inc.; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Koppers Inc. is seeking a Portfolio & Value Manager to support portfolio governance, value tracking, and benefits transparency within the IT PMO. You will maintain processes, dashboards, and reporting to enable informed decisions across initiatives.

The role involves collaboration with initiative owners, governance of stage gates, and coordination of cross‑functional teams, with limited travel (0–10%). A bachelor’s degree in IT or business is preferred, and proficiency with Microsoft Office

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 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 escalate 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

Strong written and verbal沟通 skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or Business

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Excel

SharePoint

Teams

Planner

Visio

CoPilot

Job description

Koppers Inc. is seeking a Portfolio & Value Manager to support portfolio governance, value tracking, and benefits transparency within the IT PMO. You will maintain processes, dashboards, and reporting to enable informed decisions across initiatives.

The role involves collaboration with initiative owners, governance of stage gates, and coordination of cross‑functional teams, with limited travel (0–10%). A bachelor’s degree in IT or business is preferred, and proficiency with Microsoft Office