Transformation Portfolio Manager

Purpose

• You will own a single, transparent funnel from idea to prioritized investment candidate.
• Reporting to the Transformation Lead, you will run intake and qualification, maintain the demand roadmap, safeguard discovery quality and business-case integrity, and drive benefits realization and change adoption across the automation program.

Key Interactions with Business sponsors, Process Owners and BAs on demand intake, qualification and benefits. Director, VP and SVP for Status Reporting. Solution Architect during shaping and Delivery Lead for ROM estimates and capacity commitments

Responsibilities

• Intake & Qualification: Own the intake framework and qualify incoming demand against clear entry criteria.
• Demand Governance & Roadmap: Maintain a single prioritized demand roadmap and run the governance forums behind it.
• Discovery Quality: Ensure process discovery is evidence-based, complete and ready for solution shaping.
• Business-Case Integrity: Validate assumptions, costs and expected benefits before demand moves to funding.
• Benefits Realization & Change: Track realized benefits post go-live and drive the adoption and change approach.
• Program Planning & Reporting: Consolidate program status, risks and decisions into transparent reporting for leadership.
• Stakeholder & Sponsor Management: Align sponsors and business units on scope, sequencing and expected outcomes.
• Vendor & Partner Management: Manage delivery partners and platform vendors on scope, quality and commercial commitments.
• As-Is & To-Be Process Mapping: Create and validate the as-is and to-be process models with business and process owners.

Main

• Shortening lead time from idea to decision while keeping qualification standards high.
• Maintaining portfolio strategic alignment and managing demand aging and drop rates.
• Proving benefits realization after go-live and influencing sponsors without direct funding authority.

Turnover:

• Accountable for the qualified demand portfolio and committed business-case benefits.

Budget control:

• Tracks program spend against approved envelopes and challenges cost estimations before funding.

Size of teams:

• No direct reports; leads sponsors, process owners and delivery partners in a matrix setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Business, Computer Science, IT or related

Required Skills

• Demand management and portfolio governance
• Business case development and benefits tracking
• Process discovery and improvement methods
• Experience running transformation or automation programs
• Leadership and strategy
• Adaptability and resilience
• Analytical and organizational
• Communication and stakeholder management
• Multi-cultural environment
• English: fluent

Preferred Skills

• PMP, PRINCE2 or SAFe certification
• Business analysis and process improvement (Lean / Six Sigma)