Portfolio Lead, Sales Transformation

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The Sales Transformation Portfolio Lead/Manager plays a critical role in orchestrating how sales transformation initiatives are evaluated prioritized governed and communicated across the organization. This role ensures initiative intake is structured data is accurate progress is visible and leadership has the insights needed to make informed decisions. The Portfolio Lead/Manager helps establish the operating rhythm frameworks and standards that enable the Sales Transformation Office to run effectively and scale as the portfolio grows.

This individual acts as the connective tissue across strategic programs business leaders and cross functional partners. They own the portfolio operating model ensure data-driven decision-making and provide transparency into initiative performance value delivery and risk areas. This role is ideal for someone who brings strong analytical operational and organizational experience with the ability to create clarity structure and insight in fast-moving environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Portfolio Intake Prioritization and Planning

• Manage the intake process for new sales transformation initiatives ensuring clear scope business case and alignment to strategic objectives.
• Develop and manage prioritization frameworks to determine sequencing dependencies and resource considerations across the portfolio.
• Maintain an accurate up-to-date source of truth portfolio view capturing progress risks interdependencies and value delivery.
• Partner with leaders across sales marketing finance operations and product to ensure initiatives are properly defined and positioned for success.

Data Management and Insights

• Own initiative data quality across systems ensuring accuracy consistency and completeness.
• Create standard data structures definitions and reporting guidelines for use across the Transformation Office.
• Define and maintain portfolio-level KPIs value realization measures and reporting logic.

Executive Dashboarding and Visibility

• Develop and maintain executive dashboards that provide a clear view into progress risks trends value delivery and overall portfolio health.
• Translate complex program data into meaningful insights for executive audiences.
• Provide timely reporting to leadership enabling informed decisions and proactive interventions.

Governance and Operating Rhythm

• Establish and manage the governance framework used to monitor progress escalate risks and ensure accountability across initiatives.
• Lead cross portfolio forums including leadership reviews operating cadences and decision-making sessions.
• Maintain consistent operating rhythms guiding the organization through structured predictable and transparent review cycles.

Frameworks Standards and Tooling

• Own the Transformation Offices portfolio and program delivery standards frameworks templates and methodologies.
• Define and enforce consistent practices across initiative planning reporting and status management.
• Evaluate implement and manage tooling to support portfolio management reporting and collaboration.
• Partner with program leaders to ensure adoption and consistent application of standards and tools.

Cross Functional Partnership and Enablement

• Partner closely with program managers and business leaders to maintain high-quality plans data and reporting.
• Support initiative teams in following the Transformation Office framework and best practices.
• Foster a culture of transparency accountability and operational excellence across the transformation ecosystem.

Qualifications:

Required

• 812 years of experience in portfolio management PMO operations transformation support or strategic program management.
• Proven experience managing cross-functional portfolios and creating prioritization or governance models.
• Strong analytical skills with experience designing dashboards and communicating insights to executive audiences.
• Ability to design and operationalize frameworks standards and scalable processes.
• Demonstrated success bringing structure clarity and organization to complex ambiguous environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to simplify complex information.

Preferred

• Experience within a Transformation Office Enterprise PMO or Strategy/Operations team.
• Background supporting sales go-to-market or revenue-driving initiatives.
• Familiarity with portfolio management or BI tools such as Smartsheet Workfront Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience in SaaS technology or consulting environments.

Key Competencies

• Portfolio management and prioritization
• Governance and operating model design
• Data quality metrics and dashboarding
• Executive reporting and storytelling
• Cross-functional coordination
• Process design and standardization
• Analytical problem solving
• Organizational clarity and structure

Why This Role Matters

This role is foundational to the effectiveness of the Sales Transformation Office. By owning intake prioritization governance and portfolio visibility the Portfolio Lead/Manager ensures the organization invests in the right initiatives and delivers measurable outcomes. This role provides the insights structure and operational discipline that empower leadership to make high-quality decisions and accelerate transformation across the business.

At Adobe for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC base commission) and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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