Digital & IT Enterprise Portfolio Manager

Black & Veatch Corporation•Overland Park, KS

38d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Portfolio Manager is a strategic partner to business and D&IT leaders, driving clarity and execution across portfolio roadmaps and project plans. This role ensures that PMO-enabled project investments are aligned with enterprise goals, delivering measurable value through disciplined oversight and governance. As the primary liaison for sponsors of technology initiatives, the Portfolio Manager helps shape functional road maps, orchestrating resources, timing, and synergies to optimize outcomes and elevate strategic performance.

Requirements

A bachelor's or master's degree in information systems, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
15+ years in enterprise environments, preferably within technology, with 10+ years in progressively senior roles across project, program, or portfolio leadership.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's or Master's degree in information systems, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
15+ years in enterprise environments, preferably within technology, with 10+ years in progressively senior roles across project, program, or portfolio leadership.
Visionary Leadership:â¯Influences through integrity, consistency, and inclusive collaboration-bringing clarity to complexity and unity to diverse perspectives.
Organizational Savvy:â¯Navigates silos with tact and diplomacy, connecting ideas and people to drive enterprise-wide cohesion.
Strategic Communication:â¯Tailors messaging to diverse audiences, ensuring clarity, impact, and alignment.
Business Insight:â¯Understands core business processes and adapts to the cultural nuances of each function to build trust and relevance.
Technical Fluency:â¯Partners effectively with technical teams to ensure systems are built to spec and deliver intended outcomes.
Portfolio Strategy:â¯Aligns portfolio vision with enterprise goals, ensuring investments deliver meaningful value.
Market Awareness:â¯Understands BV's markets and the drivers behind business unit initiatives, adding context to prioritization.
Value Realization:â¯Measures and communicates portfolio impact, linking execution to strategic objectives.
Innovative Mindset:â¯Inspires creativity and progress through clear vision, structured roadmaps, and entrepreneurial energy.
Analytical Rigor:â¯Solves problems with precision, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous challenges.

Responsibilities

Maintain transparency by defining and communicating portfolio performance metrics and KPIs to senior leadership, ensuring accountability and actionable insights for data-driven decisions.
Collaborate with Project Managers, Sponsors, and Stakeholders to assess and manage portfolio risks, issues, and dependencies, and design appropriate resolution and mitigation strategies.
Oversee the BV project Demand & Supply lifecycle process, contributing to Demand quality control, influencing project management activities, and promoting an integrated approach to portfolio management for successful execution of investments.
Build and sustain direct relationships with D&IT senior leadership, gaining insight into their visions and objectives, while leveraging the virtual account team model to foster similar engagement with business functions beyond D&IT.
Advance project prioritization governance by deepening understanding of project value via collaboration with D&IT Business Relationship Leaders (BRLs), facilitating priority-setting sessions, and supporting alignment of project selection with company strategy.
Support the development of functional roadmaps alongside senior leadership, identifying logical structures for project and program breakdowns, workstreams, and timelines.
Make informed tradeoff decisions in the best interest of the portfolio, relying on comprehensive analysis and facilitating data-driven discussions with executives.
Promote consistency and excellence in workflow execution across varying methodologies and frameworks within the portfolio.
Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to inform long-term strategic planning.
Champion innovation and drive a forward-looking culture throughout the organization.
Lead continuous improvement efforts within the PMO to elevate portfolio management practices and augment organizational value.
Mentor and coach Project Managers and team members, fostering a high-performance culture grounded in PMO best practices and professional growth.
Contribute to the standards used in project execution; define rituals, methods, & tools.
Represent the PMO at executive meetings and presentations, effectively conveying portfolio status, challenges, and opportunities.

Benefits

We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1.
Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life.
Our comprehensive benefits portfolio is a key component of this commitment and offers an array of health care benefits including but not limited to medical, dental and vision insurances along with disability and a robust wellness program.
To support a healthy work-life balance, we offer flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.
A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union.
Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.
As employee-owners, our professionals are empowered to drive not only their personal growth, but the company's long-term achievements - and they share in the financial rewards of the success through stock ownership.

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