6518 - Associate Director Portfolio Management Business B3 III

Delan Associates, Inc•East Hanover, NJ

About The Position

This role focuses on bridging the gap between business needs and technology solutions by developing product and platform strategies, evaluating solutions, defining delivery strategies, and ensuring strategic integration across various initiatives. The Associate Director will partner with stakeholders to understand priorities, translate needs into actionable plans, and facilitate cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful program planning and execution. The role requires strong analytical, facilitation, problem-solving, and communication skills to navigate complex information and drive strategic alignment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
Seven or more years of experience in product strategy, platform strategy, product management, technology strategy, program planning, or related disciplines.
Demonstrated experience translating business opportunities into coordinated product, platform, data, or technology strategies.
Experience facilitating early-stage solution evaluation and cross-functional impact assessments.
Ability to synthesize input from business and technical experts into clear options and recommendations.
Experience developing sequenced delivery plans across multiple products, platforms, and teams.
Strong understanding of product development, platform capabilities, technology delivery, and organizational dependencies.
Experience working across business, product, architecture, data, engineering, and delivery organizations.
Strong analytical, facilitation, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
Ability to develop actionable recommendations despite incomplete or evolving information.

Nice To Haves

Experience across CRM, data, analytics, AI, digital products, or enterprise platforms.
Experience supporting technology-enabled business transformation or complex cross-product initiatives.
Experience leading or supporting cross-functional programs through planning and execution.
Familiarity with product operating models, Agile delivery, portfolio management, and technology governance.
Experience within pharmaceutical, life sciences, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
Demonstrated ability to balance immediate business priorities with longer-term product and platform considerations.

Responsibilities

Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, business opportunities, challenges, and desired outcomes.
Translate complex or ambiguous needs into clearly framed opportunities and capability considerations.
Develop a holistic view of the products, platforms, data assets, and technology capabilities relevant to an opportunity.
Facilitate evaluation of how existing and planned capabilities could be leveraged to address business needs.
Identify capability gaps, overlaps, dependencies, and opportunities for reuse across products and platforms.
Help ensure proposed approaches align with broader product, platform, data, and technology strategies.
Develop strategic recommendations and decision materials informed by input from accountable subject-matter experts.
Bring together Product Management, Architecture, Data, Engineering, Operations, and other subject-matter experts to explore potential solution approaches.
Structure and facilitate the evaluation of options based on expected value, strategic alignment, feasibility, complexity, scalability, reuse, dependencies, and delivery implications.
Coordinate cross-functional impact assessments across products, platforms, data, integrations, processes, stakeholder groups, and delivery teams.
Ensure the appropriate experts identify the capabilities, investments, decisions, and dependencies required to advance an initiative.
Synthesize expert input into a cohesive view of potential approaches, trade-offs, risks, and downstream impacts.
Surface cross-functional considerations that may not be visible within individual product or delivery teams.
Ensure detailed requirements, technical design, architecture decisions, and backlog ownership remain with the appropriate accountable teams.
Translate an agreed strategic direction into a sequenced and actionable delivery plan.
Work with accountable product and delivery leaders to define major capabilities, workstreams, dependencies, milestones, decision points, and expected outcomes.
Facilitate alignment on ownership and clarify how work will progress across participating teams.
Develop sequencing recommendations that consider business urgency, technical dependencies, capacity, readiness, and opportunities for incremental value delivery.
Identify critical-path activities, cross-team dependencies, and decisions that could affect execution.
Support the transition from strategy and planning into delivery by ensuring teams share a common understanding of objectives, sequencing, and accountabilities.
Adapt plans as new information, delivery constraints, or strategic priorities emerge.
Maintain visibility across related development efforts and help ensure they advance as part of a coherent product and platform direction.
Connect initiatives across organizational boundaries to identify dependencies, duplication, gaps, and opportunities for alignment.
Convene the appropriate business, product, architecture, data, technology, and delivery stakeholders to address cross-functional questions.
Help leadership understand how individual initiatives contribute to broader business outcomes and platform capabilities.
Partner with portfolio and product leaders to connect strategic priorities, investment decisions, and delivery plans.
Promote scalable and reusable approaches where appropriate while recognizing when business needs require differentiated solutions.
Establish fit-for-purpose planning, governance, and reporting structures for assigned initiatives.
Maintain an integrated view of major milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions, decisions, and accountable owners.
Prepare initiatives for execution by ensuring that the agreed approach, delivery sequence, ownership model, and key dependencies are clear.
Support the designated program or delivery lead during transition and execution, as appropriate.
Lead program coordination for select initiatives when organizational needs or the delivery model require it.
When serving as program lead, coordinate cross-functional execution, monitor progress, manage dependencies, and escalate risks and decisions requiring leadership attention.