Director Facilities Portfolio Management
About The Position
The Director of Facilities Portfolio Management is a strategic operational leadership role responsible for unifying procurement, real estate, and facilities execution under a cohesive, repeatable operating model. The position is part of Optimum’s enterprise-wide strategic planning and program lifecycle team and reports directly to the VP of Finance Strategy and Integration. The role manages the facilities portfolio, overseeing prioritization, execution, and measurement of key initiatives to drive measurable cost savings and strengthen governance. It also champions the employee experience throughout initiatives, keeping people at the center of workplace decisions. The director leads cross-functional portfolio planning and delivery, supports facility transitions, reports portfolio status to executives, and continually improves governance, tracking, and project practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a related field.
- At least 8 years of experience in large-scale cost-savings programs or enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Strong project management skills, including experience developing playbooks, RACI frameworks, and executive reporting.
- Proven ability to engage credibly with senior executives and cross-functional leaders while remaining hands-on in execution.
- Executive-level communication skills, including the ability to translate complex operational and financial data into clear narratives about status, risk, and benefit realization.
- Strong portfolio and program management skills, including management of large, complex, cross-functional portfolios in matrixed organizations.
- Ability to work in highly cross-functional environments spanning facilities, supply chain, technology/network, finance, and HR.
- Analytical mindset and ability to interpret financial and operational data, model scenarios, and quantify savings.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree or MBA.
- PMP or equivalent professional certification.
- Experience operating within a CFO-led corporate services or shared services organization.
- Background in change management or organizational effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain an integrated operational strategy aligning procurement, real estate, and facilities with company initiatives, including network infrastructure investment.
- Oversee facilities planning and prioritization with Finance, HR, and business leaders across corporate offices, headend locations, and other properties.
- Track and report expected versus realized benefits and savings against targets, including property dispositions and ongoing cost optimization goals.
- Lead cross-functional planning and execution of facilities projects, including site moves, build-outs, closures, and procurement transformations.
- Manage initiative scope, timelines, resourcing, budgets, and risks from end to end.
- Establish steering committees and working-team status reviews to track progress, surface risks, and support timely decisions.
- Partner with Operations, Communications, and HR to support employees affected by facility transitions, including communication and feedback loops.
- Ensure employee impact is assessed and addressed in project plans, with timely and clear communication of plans, priorities, and changes to stakeholders and impacted teams.
- Coordinate across Facilities, Operations, Supply Chain, HR, Communications, IT, and other relevant workstreams to meet timelines and manage risks.
- Develop and maintain executive-ready portfolio reporting covering roadmap progress, spending versus budget, risks, and required decisions.
- Facilitate senior leadership discussions about portfolio prioritization, trade-offs, and resourcing as needed.
- Conduct post-move and post-closure retrospectives and use lessons learned to improve the playbook.
- Support migration of portfolio tracking from spreadsheets to a centralized, scalable source of truth aligned with broader PMO tooling over time.
- Help standardize and optimize governance practices, including project playbooks, timelines, RACI structures, and communication templates.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
