Published: Apr 18, 2025 - The Global Portfolio Manager oversees global programs and projects through all lifecycle phases, ensuring alignment with business goals and efficient execution by collaborating with cross-functional teams and senior leadership. This position drives strategic direction, financial tracking, and risk management while connecting interdependent initiatives to maximize organizational impact. This role maintains the Global Capital Long-Range Plan for high-value projects and ensures measurable outcomes and governance across the portfolio.

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1. Global Portfolio Manager, Altura Strategic Ventures, Eugene, OR
Job Summary:
- Support digital strategy for Sustainability Solutions on market dynamics, disruption and emerging technologies and the impact on business model, products and services
- Drive the use of data and analytics and articulate its impact on industrial processes
- Drive digital talent and culture, be an advisor on digital transformation for Sustainability Solutions both internally and externally
- Monetize new business models and support investment requirements in digital business
- Strong financial and business discipline for roadmap prioritization and launch analysis of each product
- Drives portfolio financial accountability for results, including NPD (New Product Development) budgets for the portfolio
- Strong collaboration with different R&D (Research and Development) teams to drive the NPD gate process and schedules
- Support sales consulting engagements for strategic opportunities in Sustainability Solutions
- Deliver product training and sales enablement programs to increase portfolio adoption
- Partner development for the Sustainability ecosystem
- Engage, drive and contribute to group-wide sustainability projects where applicable for digital solutions
Skills on Resume:
- Digital Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Data Analytics (Hard Skills)
- Digital Culture (Soft Skills)
- Business Monetization (Hard Skills)
- Financial Discipline (Hard Skills)
- R&D Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Sales Consulting (Soft Skills)
- Product Training (Hard Skills)
2. Global Portfolio Manager, Meridian Insight Group, Tempe, AZ
Job Summary:
- Manages assigned programs and projects and establishes management methodology through Initiation, Planning, Monitoring and Controlling, Execution and Closure.
- Represents the Global CREWS Organization establishing ownership, defining the structure required to deliver all program requirements efficiently and successfully.
- Working closely with Site CREWS Leads and Project Managers with CREWS track, and report on allocated financials in a consistent way, calling out risks and partnering on risk mitigation.
- Identifies and manages dependencies between active and proposed projects and initiatives.
- Connects the dots between competing and complementary projects across the Department.
- Maintain and continue to develop the Global Capital LRP for all Projects >$500k
- Manages business outcomes and success metrics, to ensure the project or strategy benefits are realized.
- Ensures ongoing program/ project governance and collaboration with Senior Leaders to ensure all relevant information is surfaced to facilitate discussion and decision making.
- Responsible for providing both strategic direction and day-to-day management of a defined program with multiple work streams or projects that need to come together to deliver strategic benefits.
- Works cross-functionally and collaborates closely with Senior Leaders to ensure achievement of targeted objectives across work streams.
- Provides leadership and direction for cross functional team, which may include multiple functional areas.
Skills on Resume:
- Program Management (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Direction (Soft Skills)
- Financial Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Dependency Management (Hard Skills)
- Cross Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Capital Planning (Hard Skills)
- Outcome Metrics (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
3. Global Portfolio Manager, Novantus Capital Management, Springfield, MO
Job Summary:
- Ensures appropriate program and project documentation in line with evolving standards and expectations.
- Participates in key planning of milestones and acts as a guide for the core program team from initiation through completion.
- Works to identify and obtain participation from required cross-functional core team members.
- Supports the budget and resource forecasting associated with the CREWS Capital Portfolio.
- Tracks and manages the program schedule and task details included in the program plan.
- Identifies, analyzes, and appropriately communicates program-level risks and issues, escalates proactively to the direct manager and (where applicable) senior business owners.
- Identifies goals and success criteria, including tracking and reporting through project close out.
- Documents all major plan changes in scope.
- Raises conflicts and resolves with the appropriate level of management
- Tracks and manages the program schedule and all associated dependencies.
- Communicates updates on major milestones and keeps all stakeholders informed of progress.
Skills on Resume:
- Project Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Milestone Planning (Hard Skills)
- Team Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Budget Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Schedule Management (Hard Skills)
- Risk Communication (Soft Skills)
- Goal Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Conflict Resolution (Soft Skills)
4. Global Portfolio Manager, Trivexa Asset Partners, Lubbock, TX
Job Summary:
- Responsible for all portfolio reporting and analytics in collaboration with appropriate stakeholders.
- Working with Global Real Estate Planner and Real Estate Data and Analytics Manager to align with industry and define portfolio metrics and Balanced Scorecard.
- Working with Finance, REL, Biz Ops and Planners, responsible for the total global roll-up of the total cost of ownership CFO model.
- Ensure capital, lease and expense-related investments are in alignment with Global Site Modernization and future Hybrid demand.
- Publish and communicate global plans, metrics and strategy to theater delivery teams.
- Review global workforce priorities and integrate into portfolio and location plans.
- Transfers plans and knowledge to the delivery team for implementation, including analysis of regional plans to ensure alignment on Cisco financial targets and initiatives.
- Provide transparency regarding industry, customer and user needs
- Define customer-centric portfolio strategies for distinct product categories, notably Fundamental, Lean, Extended and Xpert (FLEX) Selections
- Manage the implementation of such strategies, especially for Fundamental and Lean Selections
- Provide input to improve launch and phase-out processes (industry-oriented)
- Support the continuous improvement of how we launch and phase out products
Skills on Resume:
- Portfolio Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Metric Alignment (Hard Skills)
- Cost Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Investment Alignment (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Communication (Soft Skills)
- Workforce Integration (Soft Skills)
- Customer Transparency (Soft Skills)
- Strategy Implementation (Hard Skills)
5. Global Portfolio Manager, Elevate Portfolio Advisory, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Lead the Portfolio for multiple Crop Protection product lines (Biologicals, Professional Solutions, Seedcare).
- Point of contact for CP Product Line Heads and Product Managers, ensuring the portfolio’s delivery, transparency of costs and business value
- Supporting the portfolio process and improvements
- Enabling fact-based decision making, and delivery of needed portfolio reports.
- Supports a number of product lines (e.g., Biologicals, Professional Solutions, Seedcare) and the portfolio definition process to ensure that new development proposals are translated efficiently and simply into the portfolio and are in line with the strategic objectives.
- Works closely and consistently with Product Line Teams, Project Management, and the head of Project and Portfolio Management in supporting processes to ensure transparency, visibility, and review for taking the best portfolio decisions
- Drive cultural development within the Portfolio organization and proactively support change across the worldwide community to foster courage, accountability, trust, entrepreneurial spirit and a strong can-do mentality
- Define and drive portfolio delivery in line with strategy, understanding portfolio link to strategic objectives, portfolio risks/issues, and ensuring efficient portfolio reporting
- Develop analyses to gain insights into project portfolio and create transparency on delivery performance to actively shape the portfolio
- Secure effective (senior) stakeholder engagement through effective portfolio ownership between the R&D and commercial organizations
- Support business partners in developing recommendations and taking actions required to balance the portfolio of existing assets and services
- Drive the strategic delivery of the portfolio through professional portfolio management
Skills on Resume:
- Portfolio Leadership (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Decision Support (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Alignment (Hard Skills)
- Cross Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Cultural Development (Soft Skills)
- Performance Analysis (Hard Skills)
6. Global Portfolio Manager, Bluestream Holdings LLC, Winston-Salem, NC
Job Summary:
- Support global segment strategy & planning
- Analyze regional portfolios (both technical & commercial) and define measures for improved profitability (focus on cost reductions) and international harmonization
- Identify gaps in regional portfolios and define measures
- Define and support harmonized product launch processes
- Define and manage global and regional target portfolios (focus NA & Europe)
- Management of product life cycle (from R&D to phase-out / consolidation)
- Support innovation strategy of segment paper & board
- Support of global product-related marketing activities incl. product branding
- Support global pricing strategy and framework in cooperation with Global Business Line Manager
- Review market trends and competitive activities together with sales and technical departments
- Liaison with CPMC
Skills on Resume:
- Strategy Planning (Hard Skills)
- Portfolio Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Gap Identification (Hard Skills)
- Launch Management (Hard Skills)
- Lifecycle Management (Hard Skills)
- Innovation Support (Soft Skills)
- Market Review (Hard Skills)
- Team Liaison (Soft Skills)
7. Global Portfolio Manager, CoreVista Financial Solutions, Little Rock, AR
Job Summary:
- Support Head of Solar Development Europe in all reporting aspects (e.g. Monthly and Quarterly Performance Dialogues, Business Updates etc.)
- Maintain an efficient and well-managed, reporting framework around internal project management and reporting tools to provide a centralized source upon which a broad array of internal information requirements may be serviced in a timely, accurate and insightful manner
- Work with internal colleagues to ensure data quality and consistency and that the Business reporting outputs are effectively disseminated to business partners and service providers
- Support target tracking (e.g. Mid/Long Term Plan)
- Support Solar & Storage Continuous Improvement Program in terms of Process Mapping, Interface alignment of the unified Delivering Solar Storage Process and key performance indicator implementation
- Work closely with Development teams and colleagues from the New Ways of Working team to support wider continuous improvement activities
- Actively support the development of all necessary processes and business culture that is conducive to fast and effective knowledge transfer within the Solar & Storage business and its relevant stakeholders
- Work closely with the Project Managers (Development) to ensure relevant knowledge is captured and shared in an appropriate, timely and strategic manner
- Develop key indicators for performance tracking systems and indices to assess efficiency
- Perform quantitative and qualitative analyses for new product opportunities including In-Licensing, Exclusive IP deals with MNCs, M&A projects
- Maintain standards and compliance throughout
Skills on Resume:
- Reporting Framework (Hard Skills)
- Data Consistency (Hard Skills)
- Target Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Process Mapping (Hard Skills)
- Continuous Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Knowledge Transfer (Soft Skills)
- Performance Indicators (Hard Skills)
- Compliance Maintenance (Hard Skills)
8. Global Portfolio Manager, Ascendian Portfolio Strategies, Fargo, ND
Job Summary:
- Centralizes the complete book of work from the global implementation team
- Overseas the end-to-end program tracking, reporting and implementation processes, communications and policies, as well as resource Planning and financial oversight (including staff and technology budgets).
- Ensures Global Best Practices Protocols (GBPP) for Implementation, documentation, and Governance are established across all centers and gap are identified and remediated timely.
- Establishes one consistent Global Project Management tool (currently JIRA) for standard use across all projects.
- Ensure training and development tools are established and utilized across teams.
- Act as an initial point of contact to receive project or ad-hoc requests.
- Support the prioritization of initiatives as well as the re-assignment to other groups for initiatives that are not to be supported by the team.
- Act as a liaison between organizations, workstreams and project teams to align initiatives
- Control critical deadlines across the overall program to ensure no impact for strategic goals.
- Coordinates Steering committee forums to review the overall health and performance of the Book of Work, providing visibility to the most important Risks and Issues and will facilitate the discussion to decide on priorities, resources, budget etc.
- Manages Talent and Ensures all other PMs work under the same standards
- Manage risks and issues at strategic/program level and take corrective actions.
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Skills on Resume:
- Program Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Financial Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Governance Protocols (Hard Skills)
- Tool Standardization (Hard Skills)
- Initiative Prioritization (Soft Skills)
- Cross Alignment (Soft Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Ethical Compliance (Soft Skills)
9. Global Portfolio Manager, Halcyon Ridge Investments, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Set and execute on the short and long-term vision for vascular service offering by translating customer needs, market insights, competition, and a broad set of business needs into service solutions that are both differentiated and valued in the market
- Design, launch, scale and sustain Gore's service portfolio and ensure alignment of services with strategy, business intent, prioritized needs, customers and capabilities
- Establish a deep understanding of the patient, physician, provider, and payer experiences in treating vascular disease along the care continuum
- Collaborate with and manage stakeholders across businesses to integrate service portfolio and customer experience into long-term vision
- Interface and build close relationships with customers, thought leaders, and influencers to identify key strategic areas of focus, stay up to date in emerging trends and technology, and obtain feedback regarding current and future service development
- Work in tandem with regional vascular marketing to ensure alignment of services with messaging and tactics
- Collaborate across Marketing, Health Economic, Business, and Sales functions to elevate value created by services over an episode of care and support business strategy
- Generate business proposals, market assessments, presentations and supporting materials to align all functional groups behind a common services vision
- Evaluate, quantify and articulate the contribution of the services portfolio to KPIs and the growth trajectory of businesses and the overall vascular category
- Represent and help prioritize services within Vascular Category Governance
- Support on ad-hoc requests/projects in a timely and accurate manner (e.g. Corporate strategy, portfolio optimization projects, etc.)
Skills on Resume:
- Vision Execution (Hard Skills)
- Service Design (Hard Skills)
- Patient Insight (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
- Customer Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Cross Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Proposal Generation (Hard Skills)
- KPI Evaluation (Hard Skills)
10. Global Portfolio Manager, Nexvia Global Assets, Fort Wayne, IN
Job Summary:
- Ensures the completeness, quality and update of portfolio data for all the projects, programs and activities of innovation function and prepares portfolio overviews formulating proposals on how to increase the portfolio value, how to prioritise projects, programs and activities, how to keep the portfolio aligned with business and innovation strategy, how to anticipate bottlenecks and ‘over capacity’ cases.
- Proactively participates in the continuous improvement of the portfolio management process as a support of the Global Innovation Operations Director, e.g., suggests new ways to analyse and communicate portfolio value and progression.
- Leveraging external best practices and benchmarks.
- Analyses and prepares regular overviews on back and forward-looking allocation of resources among portfolio segments in cooperation with line managers, Innovation Finance and project managers.
- Proposes resource shifts consistent with portfolio reviews.
- Manages the approval process to activate/deactivate cost collectors related to projects, programs and activities.
- Proactively participates in the continuous improvement of the strategic resource allocation process as a support to the Global Innovation Operations Director.
- Distillation of both scientific and commercial research of new product opportunities into sound recommendations, forecasts, sensitivities and business cases that are required for internal approval
- Liaise directly with regional marketing directors to collect, validate and challenge ongoing new product opportunities
- Identification of new product opportunities using appropriate market intelligence databases and quantitative analyses
- Provide high-quality presentations and documentation for senior management
Skills on Resume:
- Portfolio Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Benchmark Leveraging (Hard Skills)
- Resource Allocation (Hard Skills)
- Approval Management (Hard Skills)
- Opportunity Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Market Intelligence (Hard Skills)
- Executive Communication (Soft Skills)