Strategic Server Options & Sustaining Portfolio Lead

Lenovo; North Carolina; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking an experienced Option and Sustaining Portfolio Planner to turn customer and business needs into clear portfolio plans across server platforms and option categories. The role collaborates with Product Managers to resolve trade-offs, improve sustaining processes, and align lifecycle milestones with roadmaps and supply.

This senior role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and data-driven decisions to deliver reliable outcomes across Lenovo ISG server options and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in server, infrastructure, product management, portfolio management, program management, or technical leadership.
• Strong understanding of enterprise server products, options, supply chain, quality, service, and lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Set priorities for server options and sustaining work, balancing customer need, business value, quality, security, supply continuity, feasibility, and lifecycle impact.
• Recommend clear decisions on scope, timing, deferral, replacement, and retirement in collaboration with Product Managers and delivery teams.
• Turn cross-functional input into practical plans with clear trade-offs, dependencies, owners, and decisions.
• Improve sustaining processes, decision-making, execution speed, predictability, and transparency.
• Identify gaps, duplicate work, unclear ownership, and bottlenecks, then establish practical roles, criteria, measures, and escalation paths.
• Use planning, analytics, and automation tools to improve traceability, expose bottlenecks, and support decisions.
• Oversee sustaining releases across supported server platforms and option categories.
• Combine demand, dependencies, resources, material readiness, validation, and customer commitments into clear release plans.
• Track milestones, risks, and decisions, and provide concise status and recovery recommendations to leadership.
• Manage server options and sustaining content from introduction through transition, withdrawal, and end of support.
• Align lifecycle milestones with platform roadmaps, supply, certification, service readiness, and customer transitions.
• Simplify the portfolio and maintain continuity through clear replacement plans, documented impacts, and assigned owners.
• Represent Product Management in cross-functional reviews and maintain a clear view of priorities, risks, dependencies, decisions, and owners.
• Drive alignment across Product Management, Development, Architecture, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Services, and Commercial teams.
• Resolve conflicts in requirements, ownership, priority, and timing, and ensure agreed actions are driven to closure.
• Translate complex issues into concise product and business guidance for leadership.

Skills

Technical AI Fluency

Server architecture

Processors

Memory

Storage

Networking

Operating systems

Lifecycle management

Tools

Planning tools

Analytics tools

AI-assisted tools

Job description

Lenovo is seeking an experienced Option and Sustaining Portfolio Planner to turn customer and business needs into clear portfolio plans across server platforms and option categories. The role collaborates with Product Managers to resolve trade-offs, improve sustaining processes, and align lifecycle milestones with roadmaps and supply.

This senior role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and data-driven decisions to deliver reliable outcomes across Lenovo ISG server options and