Manager, Portfolio Management Review

Kraft Heinz • Chicago, IL

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager, PMR will help drive the capability, process, governance, and tool improvements required to strengthen Kraft Heinz North America’s innovation performance. This role partners closely with Business Unit leaders, Portfolio/PMO teams, and cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Finance, Marketing) to standardize “how we run innovation,” improve visibility and decision-making, and embed consistent routines that enable stronger pipeline health, prioritization, and execution.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in project, program, portfolio management, commercialization, or transformation roles.
• Demonstrated experience working with portfolio metrics and business/financial concepts (e.g., investment levels, tradeoffs, prioritization).
• Strong stakeholder management skills across cross-functional teams; able to drive alignment and accountability.
• Experience implementing or improving processes, governance, and/or management systems to support execution.
• Structured problem solving (ability to simplify complex topics into clear steps and decisions).
• Clear communication (can translate data into executive-ready insights and actions).
• Collaborative leadership (drives outcomes through influence, facilitation, and follow-through).
• High attention to detail and data integrity (ensures accuracy in portfolio and performance reporting).

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting Stage Gate routines, PMR/portfolio review cadences, or structured governance in a commercialization/innovation setting.
• Experience with analytics/BI dashboards, portfolio tools, or system-enabled performance reporting
• Exposure to resource capacity planning approaches in project-based environments.

Responsibilities

• Support NA rollout and adoption of Innovation Transformation priorities (capability, culture, ways of working, governance).
• Build and maintain portfolio management routines and governance (e.g., portfolio reviews/PMRs, Stage Gate routines), including clear expectations for who does what and when.
• Establish and reinforce portfolio health metrics and performance management routines (e.g., status, risk, escalation, prioritization, pipeline, resourcing).
• Translate portfolio and execution data into clear insights for leaders (visibility to progress, risks, bottlenecks, tradeoffs).
• Help refine and implement prioritization approaches (filtering, scoring, and governance logic) to guide investment and sequencing decisions.
• Standardize and support adoption of business case formats, thresholds, and governance to improve decision quality and speed.
• Improve visibility to project resource demand and capacity.
• Support creation of resourcing governance and routines to proactively manage constraints and enable delivery.
• Identify root causes behind portfolio changes or performance gaps and drive practical corrective actions.

Benefits

• Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future, we offer plans tailored to meet you and your family’s needs.
• Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Screenings/Assessments
• Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Leave of Absence, Flexible Work Arrangements, Recognition, Training
• Employee Assistance Program, Wellbeing Programs, Family Support Programs
• 401k, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed