Senior Project Portfolio Management Consultant

Pacific Life; Newport Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k with match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Wellbeing reimbursement

Job summary

Pacific Life, in Newport Beach, CA, seeks a Project Portfolio Management Consultant to lead portfolio governance and strategic alignment across business and technology teams. This hybrid role partners with finance, strategy, and product leaders to drive value realization and disciplined decision-making.

You will elevate portfolio maturity by instituting standards, roadmaps, and executive-ready reporting, while guiding teams through planning, initiation, and benefits tracking to deliver

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in portfolio management, program management, project management, strategic planning, governance, or related business transformation roles.
• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing or enabling complex portfolios of initiatives across business and technology teams in a matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio management rhythms and governance forums that help senior leaders prioritize investments, track health, and make timely trade-off decisions.
• Translate divisional and functional strategies into integrated portfolio roadmaps that connect demand, funding, capacity, dependencies, milestones, risks, and expected outcomes.
• Support the end-to-end portfolio lifecycle, including planning, initiation, prioritization, resource and capacity inputs, execution monitoring, benefits realization, and value tracking.
• Translate Workforce Division strategies into actionable portfolio initiatives that advance growth, innovation, operational excellence, and measurable business outcomes.
• Maintain awareness of business, market, and operational trends to help identify portfolio opportunities, risks, and trade-offs.
• Partner with business, finance, strategy, technology, product, program, and project leaders to ensure project and program work is prioritized, monitored, and executed in support of strategic objectives and business value.
• Develop and continuously improve portfolio management standards, practices, templates, reporting, and operating routines to advance PPM maturity across the organization.
• Analyze portfolio performance, capacity, financials, risks, issues, and dependencies to surface insights, options, and recommendations for decision-makers.
• Drive transparency across portfolio health, value realization, and delivery confidence through concise executive-ready communications, dashboards, summaries, and decision materials.
• Act as a trusted advisor and thought partner to stakeholders, applying broad business perspective and portfolio expertise to solve complex, cross-functional challenges.
• Coach and guide colleagues with less experience, helping teams adopt consistent practices while adapting approaches to business context and delivery needs.

Skills

Portfolio management

Governance

Roadmap development

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Forecasting

Capacity planning

Risk management

Value tracking

Data synthesis

Planview

Smartsheet

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Project

SharePoint

Teams

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Planview

Smartsheet

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Project

SharePoint

Teams

OneNote

PowerPoint

Job description

Pacific Life, in Newport Beach, CA, seeks a Project Portfolio Management Consultant to lead portfolio governance and strategic alignment across business and technology teams. This hybrid role partners with finance, strategy, and product leaders to drive value realization and disciplined decision-making.

You will elevate portfolio maturity by instituting standards, roadmaps, and executive-ready reporting, while guiding teams through planning, initiation, and benefits tracking to deliver