Portfolio Lead

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities Key Responsibilities Maintain a clear portfolio vision aligned to business strategy, market needs, and enterprise priorities. Translate strategic themes into portfolio level priorities and ensure alignment across sponsors, ARTs, and delivery teams. Ensure all work entering the portfolio meets strategic relevance and clear value justification. Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Lead the Portfolio Kanban including intake, triage, prioritization, readiness assessments, and sequencing of work. Support development and review of Lean Business Cases, including problem statements, value hypotheses, dependencies, risks, and financial impacts. Ensure Epic Owners and business partners meet intake, refinement, and definition standards before passing items to solutioning and delivery. Governance & Portfolio Operations Facilitate or support portfolio ceremonies: Portfolio Syncs, prioritization rounds, readiness reviews, and quarterly or PI aligned governance checkpoints. Track portfolio progress, risks, dependencies, and financial adherence across all initiatives. Provide structured portfolio reporting and insights to senior leadership, highlighting constraints, trade offs, and required decisions. Intake Management & Prioritization Own and continuously improve the intake process to ensure submissions meet quality standards and reflect business urgency, value, and feasibility. Apply prioritization criteria (strategic alignment, value, risk, dependencies, capacity) to determine what moves forward. Execution Oversight & Dependency Management Support ARTs and Epic Owners by ensuring approved portfolio items are clearly communicated, properly sequenced, and aligned prior to PI Planning. Monitor flow of Epics across teams and ARTs, ensuring dependencies are understood and mitigation plans exist. Escalate systemic risks, blockers, or resource constraints impacting delivery. Metrics, Transparency & Value Realization Establish and track portfolio KPIs including flow metrics, delivery predictability, value delivery, cycle time, and work in process. Ensure each Epic has measurable success criteria and value metrics; support post delivery reviews and benefits realization. Provide data driven insights for strategic adjustments, capacity balancing, and investment shifts. Leadership, Stakeholder Influence & Collaboration Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on portfolio health, strategic trade offs, risks, and investment recommendations. Build strong working relationships across business, technology, operations, finance, and transformation teams. Coach and support Epic Owners, PMs, Product Managers, and contributing teams in lean agile portfolio practices. Demonstrate leadership behaviours: ownership, proactive problem solving, influence without authority, structured communication, and high accountability. Desired Candidate Profile Essential 6 - 10 years of experience in strategy execution, portfolio management, program delivery, or a similar role. Strong knowledge of SAFe, Agile delivery, Lean Portfolio Management, and value stream based operating models. Demonstrated experience supporting or leading multiple, complex initiatives concurrently. Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to engage senior leaders. Proficiency in portfolio tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, reporting dashboards) and strong analytical skills.br> Desirable SAFe certifications (LPM, Leading SAFe, SPC, or POPM), and/or PMI certifications in Portfolio and program management Experience in healthcare or insurance industries. Understanding of financial analysis, portfolio cost modelling, and investment governance. Ability to coach teams and influence operating model evolution. Company Industry FitnessWellnessGymSalonSpa Department / Functional Area Corporate PlanningConsultingStrategyM&A Keywords Portfolio Lead Get real-time job updates only on our App