Senior Portfolio Director — Insurance Tech & Strategy

National Life Group; Addison (TX); On-site; USD 127,500 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits start day one

401(k) eligibility

Paid time off

Job summary

National Life Group is seeking a Director of Portfolio Management to lead integrated domain portfolio planning, demand flow, and prioritization across technology initiatives. The role partners with domain leaders, business owners, and governance forums to ensure executable roadmaps, capacity visibility, and alignment with enterprise priorities.

The ideal candidate will translate strategy into actionable portfolio plans, guide tradeoff conversations, and provide executive-ready recommendations to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience.
• 14+ years of related experience in portfolio management, program management, product-oriented delivery, business strategy, value stream leadership, enterprise transformation, business analysis, or technology-enabled business change within complex environments.
• Strong Life and Annuity industry experience with demonstrated expertise in the assigned domain.
• Proven ability to translate business and technology strategy into executable portfolio plans, roadmap priorities, sequencing options, prioritization recommendations, and measurable capability improvements.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex portfolio planning across business, technology, delivery, operational, supplier, and enterprise stakeholder groups.
• Strong experience with intake management, demand shaping, roadmap sequencing, capacity planning, prioritization analysis, tradeoff structuring, dependency management, dynamic reprioritization, and value realization tracking.
• Proven ability to serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders by clarifying tradeoffs, surfacing execution constraints, and creating alignment in complex, highly matrixed environments.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to synthesize portfolio data, capacity information, delivery health, dependency impacts, and value indicators into clear executive-ready recommendations.
• Strong systems-thinking capability with the ability to balance domain priorities with enterprise alignment, customer and advisor impact, operational sustainability, and execution feasibility.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to reduce ambiguity, create transparency, and maintain confidence across senior business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and maintain the integrated domain portfolio plan, including committed initiatives, emerging demand, roadmap sequencing, delivery milestones, dependencies, capacity assumptions, deferred work, risks, and decision rationale.
• Translate strategic business and technology objectives into short-term executable portfolio priorities, sequencing recommendations, and roadmap plans for the assigned domain.
• Serve as a principal advisor to domain technology leadership, business owners, enterprise portfolio partners, and governance forums on portfolio health, prioritization tradeoffs, delivery risk, capacity constraints, and execution feasibility.
• Partner with technology domain leadership and business owners to ensure the domain roadmap is executable, transparent, and aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Shape and continuously improve portfolio planning, demand management, roadmap transparency, prioritization, and governance practices within the assigned domain.

Skills

Portfolio management

Program management

Business strategy

Stakeholder management

Analytical capability

Communication

Governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Advanced degree

Job description

National Life Group is seeking a Director of Portfolio Management to lead integrated domain portfolio planning, demand flow, and prioritization across technology initiatives. The role partners with domain leaders, business owners, and governance forums to ensure executable roadmaps, capacity visibility, and alignment with enterprise priorities.

The ideal candidate will translate strategy into actionable portfolio plans, guide tradeoff conversations, and provide executive-ready recommendations to