Sr. Manager, Portfolio Management

Key Responsibilities:

Portfolio Financial Operations & Governance

• Monitor portfolio budgets forecasts and actuals to ensure financial accountability and transparency.

• Partner with Finance and Value Stream Leaders to track value realization and cost-benefit performance.

• Partner with Finance and Value Stream Leaders to provide quarterly investment reports trend analysis and funding adjustment recommendations.

• Support governance cadences and facilitate preparation of review packages and executive updates.

Agile Delivery Metrics & Reporting

• Define and maintain portfolio-level delivery metrics (e.g. throughput cycle time feature delivery rate).

• Drive consistent use of agile metrics across value streams to monitor performance and enable data-driven decision-making.

• Consolidate and visualize portfolio performance in dashboards and reports to inform executive and product leadership.

Agile Practice Enablement & Continuous Improvement

• Promote disciplined agile practices by partnering with Release Train Engineers (RTEs) Product Managers and Scrum Masters to ensure consistency and maturity.

• Serve as a thought partner in optimizing estimation backlog hygiene velocity tracking and team-level reporting.

• Facilitate workshops or retrospectives to reflect on outcomes and identify improvement opportunities.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Collaborate with Portfolio Managers Product Management Architecture and Engineering to align scope funding and capacity.

• Elevate risks related to delivery delays budget gaps or misaligned priorities and propose mitigation strategies.

• Act as a liaison between delivery teams and senior leaders to drive transparency accountability and executional discipline.

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of experience in portfolio or program management finance operations or agile delivery roles.

• Strong understanding of Agile Scrum and SAFe methodologies; SAFe certification a plus.

• Demonstrated experience analyzing and reporting financials delivery metrics and performance trends.

• Proficiency with tools such as Jira Jira Align Azure DevOps or Planview.

• Excellent organizational facilitation and communication skills with a strong attention to detail.

Education:

• Bachelors degree ; masters degree in business technology or related field preferred.

Preferred Attributes:

• Experience in the insurance or financial services industry.

• Skilled at bridging finance and delivery to drive strategic outcomes.

• Able to synthesize large data sets into clear actionable insights for executives and delivery teams.

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Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20 countries is a holding company for insurance reinsurance specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

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Whats in it for you:

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees needs at all stages of life.

• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life disability and AD&D insurance.

• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions an Employee Stock Purchase Plan PTO corporate holidays and floating holidays parental leave.

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