Strategic Projects Portfolio Lead

Vallourec - North America; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Company-Paid Life Insurance & Short//L

Profit Sharing: Up to 4%

401(k): Company match 4.5%

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Holidays: 10 days + 1 floating

Paid Vacation Time

Performance-Based Bonus Program

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Vallourec North America is seeking a Portfolio Manager - Strategic Projects to optimize the NA portfolio and align initiatives with business strategy. You will oversee intake, evaluation, governance, and executive reporting, driving value and strategic investments across functions.

The role requires 5+ years in portfolio management or strategic projects, strong financial modeling skills, and PMP or similar certification is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Engineering, Project Management, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Manage the North America strategic project portfolio, including initiative intake, screening, prioritization, sequencing, and periodic revalidation based on strategic alignment, expected value, risk, feasibility, and resource requirements
• Maintain an integrated view of portfolio priorities, phase-gate status, investments, expected benefits, risks, interdependencies, constraints, and resource demand
• Lead portfolio governance and facilitate portfolio and phase-gate reviews, ensuring initiatives meet established evaluation criteria and decision requirements
• Provide executive-level reporting, analysis, and recommendations on portfolio performance, investment trade-offs, resource allocation, risks, and decisions required
• Review Express Business Cases to confirm the strategic rationale, preliminary value proposition, investment requirements, key risks, and readiness of new initiatives to advance
• Coordinate Deep Dive evaluations and the development of decision-ready business cases, ensuring alternatives and strategic, commercial, operational, financial, and implementation considerations are thoroughly evaluated
• Evaluate and challenge business cases, assumptions, and recommendations to provide leadership with a sound basis for investment and phase-gate decisions
• Monitor portfolio performance, expected benefits, and business-case alignment, coordinating revalidation when scope, cost, timing, risk, assumptions, or business conditions change
• Drive consistent application and continuous improvement of the NA Strategic Projects Framework, including governance, phase-gate discipline, portfolio tools, project readiness, benefits realization, and lessons learned

Skills

Portfolio management

Financial modeling

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Strategic analysis

Analytical thinking

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Investment recommendations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Engineering, Project Management, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Portfolio management systems

Job description

Vallourec North America is seeking a Portfolio Manager - Strategic Projects to optimize the NA portfolio and align initiatives with business strategy. You will oversee intake, evaluation, governance, and executive reporting, driving value and strategic investments across functions.

The role requires 5+ years in portfolio management or strategic projects, strong financial modeling skills, and PMP or similar certification is highly valued.