Manager, P&A Portfolio Life Cycle Planning

Harley-Davidson•Milwaukee, WI

34d•$114,800 - $183,800•Onsite

About The Position

The P&A Portfolio Life Cycle Planning Manager is responsible for leading the execution, governance, and continuous improvement of the global Life Cycle Planning (LCP) process for the Parts & Accessories (P&A) portfolios. This role serves as a central integrator across Product Planning, Finance, Engineering, Commercial, Pricing, Sales, and other Product Development functions to ensure portfolio initiatives are effectively assessed, prioritized, governed, and translated into executable P&A LCP plans. The role combines portfolio planning leadership, project assessment governance, data integrity, pricing management, and planning tools ownership to provide a consistent, fact-based foundation for portfolio decision-making.

Requirements

High School Diploma or Equivalent Required
This position typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.
Experience developing product vision, business cases and pricing that leads to successful product growth and profitability
Strong project management experience
Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams
A proven leader, visionary, with demonstrated ability to execute
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Bachelors Degree Preferred

Responsibilities

Assist in the execution and governance of the annual global LCP process across all P&A portfolios.
Coordinate key LCP milestones, deliverables, assessments, scenario development, balancing, and approval activities.
Facilitate cross-functional alignment of portfolio priorities, project timing, resources, financial requirements, and strategic objectives.
Ensure LCP decisions are translated into clear project plans, charters, timelines, and organizational commitments.
Identify and proactively manage portfolio risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and decision gaps.
Drive continuous improvement of the LCP process to increase clarity, efficiency, accountability, and decision quality.
Lead the P&A Pricing Team and establish clear priorities, objectives, processes, and performance expectations.
Manage the integration of P&A pricing activities into the broader LCP, financial, commercial, and portfolio planning processes.
Establish pricing process governance, timelines, inputs, outputs, and cross-functional handoffs.
Partner with Commercial and Finance to ensure pricing analysis supports portfolio and business decisions.
Develop and maintain pricing tools, reporting, and analytical capabilities that improve visibility to portfolio performance and pricing opportunities.
Own the governance and execution framework for global Motorcycle and P&A project assessments.
Establish standardized assessment criteria, timelines, inputs, outputs, and decision requirements.
Coordinate cross-functional assessments across Engineering, Finance, Commercial, Supply, and other support organizations.
Ensure projects are evaluated consistently against strategic alignment, customer opportunity, financial value, resources, timing, complexity, and organizational capacity.
Facilitate assessment reviews and consolidate findings to support portfolio balancing and prioritization.
Identify conflicts, gaps, and resource constraints early enough to influence LCP decisions.
Establish and maintain governance standards for project, portfolio, financial, resource, timing, and assessment data used throughout the LCP process.
Ensure project information is accurate, complete, current, and consistently structured across planning systems and tools.
Define data ownership, validation requirements, version control, and governance processes.
Establish a reliable source of truth for portfolio and project information.
Partner with functional teams to resolve data quality issues and improve the integrity of information used for executive decision-making.
Develop reporting and controls to identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and process compliance issues.
Own the strategy, governance, and continuous improvement of tools supporting the global LCP process.
Manage the development and maintenance of portfolio, project assessment, resource planning, financial, and LCP management tools.
Ensure tools support standardized processes while providing appropriate flexibility for business and functional requirements.
Coordinate tool enhancements, user requirements, testing, implementation, and ongoing support.
Develop dashboards and reporting capabilities that provide leadership with clear visibility into portfolio status, project health, resources, financials, risks, and key decisions.
Drive adoption and consistent utilization of LCP tools across global teams.