Strategic Portfolio Product Manager – Remote

Eliassen Group; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 103,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Product Manager – Portfolio Management to transform how a large enterprise plans, prioritizes, funds, and executes work. This remote contract role operates at the intersection of strategy, planning, and execution, redesigning the portfolio management product and aligning stakeholders across the organization.

The ideal candidate has a background in portfolio management, product management, and strategic planning, with a track record of operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Portfolio Management, Strategic Planning, Program Management, or related disciplines.
• Proven experience leading enterprise portfolio planning and prioritization processes.
• Strong understanding of annual planning, budgeting, quarterly planning, and investment governance.
• Experience with resource planning, capacity management, forecasting, and financial alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives and drive organizational alignment.
• Experience assessing and improving portfolio management operating models.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Preferred: Experience within large-scale technology organizations.
• Preferred: Experience supporting enterprise shared services functions.
• Preferred: Knowledge of Agile Portfolio Management and Lean Portfolio Management principles.
• Preferred: Expertise with portfolio management tools such as Dragonboat, Planview, Jira Align, Aha!, ServiceNow SPM.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate annual portfolio planning and budgeting activities.
• Drive quarterly planning cycles and establish repeatable planning processes.
• Define planning frameworks that align investments, resources, priorities, and organizational objectives.
• Establish portfolio governance structures, decision-making processes, and success metrics.
• Partner with finance and business leaders to align budgets, capacity, and strategic priorities.
• Develop structured approaches for evaluating, prioritizing, and sequencing initiatives.
• Facilitate trade‑off discussions across competing priorities and limited resources.
• Establish clear criteria for investment decisions and portfolio commitments.
• Ensure business outcomes, strategic objectives, and resource allocations remain aligned.
• Assess organizational capacity against portfolio demand.
• Identify resource gaps, constraints, and investment opportunities.
• Create forecasting and capacity planning models that provide visibility into staffing, funding, and delivery risk.
• Analyze budget versus capacity deltas and provide recommendations for optimization.
• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of current portfolio management practices, tooling, governance, planning processes, and organizational alignment.
• Challenge existing assumptions and identify opportunities to simplify, modernize, and improve portfolio operations.
• Design and socialize a future‑state operating model focused on accountability, transparency, and execution excellence.
• Develop roadmaps and recommendations for implementation.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of quarterly planning, portfolio review, and execution cadences.
• Define the purpose, outcomes, and value of portfolio review and commitment activities.
• Create mechanisms that increase accountability, predictability, and execution success.
• Establish portfolio metrics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks.
• Assess current portfolio management tools and processes across teams.
• Evaluate platforms such as Dragonboat, Jira Align, Aha!, Planview, ServiceNow SPM, or similar solutions.
• Recommend standardized tooling approaches to improve visibility, alignment, prioritization, and reporting.
• Partner with stakeholders to drive adoption of recommended tools and practices.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership teams, portfolio owners, and delivery organizations.
• Facilitate alignment across cross‑functional teams, including Product, Technology, Operations, Finance, HR, Workplace, and Corporate Services.
• Drive consensus among stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Communicate portfolio health, risks, recommendations, and outcomes to senior leadership.

Skills

Facilitation skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Executive influence

Education

MBA or equivalent

Tools

Dragonboat

Planview

Jira Align

Aha!

ServiceNow SPM

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Product Manager – Portfolio Management to transform how a large enterprise plans, prioritizes, funds, and executes work. This remote contract role operates at the intersection of strategy, planning, and execution, redesigning the portfolio management product and aligning stakeholders across the organization.

The ideal candidate has a background in portfolio management, product management, and strategic planning, with a track record of operational excellence.