Business Portfolio Manager (Hybrid)
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Job Location:
Vienna, VA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Business Portfolio Manager
Hybrid
Vienna VA.
Basic Purpose:
To serve as a strategic partner and value steward for the Real Estate Lending portfolio ensuring initiatives are aligned with member & team member needs enterprise & department strategy and measurable outcomes. Portfolio & Value Managers (PVMs) drive judgment-led and value-based decisions at every stage of the portfolio lifecycle from ideation through investment decision to implementation and value realization by translating strategy into coherent initiatives ensuring investment ready initiatives anticipating risks framing outcomes in terms of value and visibility into value risk and portfolio health across the enterprise.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Partnership
- Partner with business technology and governance leaders to translate strategic themes into initiatives with clear value hypotheses.
- Act as a capability mirror for leaders coaching them to mature portfolio fluency and stewardship.
- Read organizational dynamics surfacing resistance and adapting messaging to influence stakeholders at all levels.
Intake & Discovery
- Review initiative submissions for readiness segmentation and value clarity.
- Facilitate epic discovery by framing business problems surfacing risks early and confirming investment readiness. Step in as discovery coach when momentum drifts or clarity is lacking
- Ensure discovery outcomes are met for all initiatives that are investment candidates.
Investment & Prioritization
- Advise on segmentation prioritization sequencing and balancing strategic priorities with portfolio capacity and resource constraints.
- Use analytical judgment to evaluate initiative value viability feasibility risks and trade-offs asking: Should this be done Is it worth doing now
- Coordinate adjustments to the portfolio as necessary when portfolio demands necessitate a change in delivery and/or scope of work.
Implementation Oversight
- Monitor implementation to ensure alignment with intended value scope and impact.
- Anticipate midstream pivots escalate portfolio risks upstream and advise on course correction.
- Partner with Product Managers Delivery Managers and Change Leaders to sustain clarity of outcomes during execution.
Value & Impact
- Frame and track value expectations with stakeholders ensuring outcomes (not just outputs) are measured.
- Conduct post-implementation value realization reviews and embed learnings into future portfolio cycles.
- Provide governance bodies and executives with insight into realized outcomes and lessons. Visibility & Insights
- Prepare for strategic portfolio health reviews and maintain Strategic Business roadmaps.
- Monitor and report portfolio status and progress towards initiative execution including milestones and metrics.
- Synthesize systemic insights across intake discovery and implementation to highlight enterprise patterns readiness gaps and value signals.
- Deliver executive-ready narratives that connect the dots across initiatives enabling leadership to make informed strategic choices.
- Manage portfolio data and conduct analysis across the strategic portfolio to identify and report potential risks provide input into sequencing and prioritization and highlight resource constraints
- Build and maintain relationships with lines of business team members management key stakeholders and/or external contacts (e.g. vendors etc.)
Qualifications and Education Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in Business Finance Strategy or related field or the equivalent combination of education training and experience.
- SAFe Lean Portfolio Management Certification (or equivalent).
- Experience with portfolio management product management executive communication
Experience
- Proven ability to manage and advise large enterprise-wide portfolios or initiatives preferably in financial services.
- Deep knowledge of portfolio management methodologies strategic planning and value realization practices.
- Strong understanding of Agile Lean Portfolio Management and value delivery models.
- Experience in product portfolio governance executive communication strategic value realization.
Core Skills
- Analytical Judgment: Ability to evaluate initiative viability value and trade-offs with clarity.
- Executive Storytelling: Skilled at synthesizing insights into concise compelling narratives for senior leaders and executive audiences.
- Stakeholder Navigation: Able to influence across power centers adapt messaging to organizational dynamics and coach leaders toward portfolio stewardship.
- Strategic Thinking: Strong systems orientation connects the dots across initiatives teams and outcomes to frame enterprise-level insights.
- Data Literacy: Translates business financial and delivery data into actionable strategic insights.
- Collaboration & Facilitation: Advanced ability to negotiate resolve conflicts and build consensus to ensure adoption of change.
- Adaptability: Capable of managing multiple priorities in dynamic environments operating effectively both independently and in team
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Project / Program Management
- Project Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Management
- Credit Analysis
- Banking
- Pricing
- Analysis Skills
- Project Management
- Financial Analysis
- Budgeting
- Property Management
- Contracts
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