Portfolio Delivery Analyst - A&F Co.

Abercrombie & Fitch•Columbus, OH

12d•Remote

About The Position

The Portfolio Delivery Analyst coordinates portfolio planning, forecasting, reporting, and delivery operations across Abercrombie & Fitch Co.’s Data & Analytics organization. The role provides analysis, visibility, and operational support to help leadership make informed decisions about demand, capacity, funding, priorities, and delivery commitments. It partners with Product, Data Strategy, Engineering, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and leadership teams to maintain portfolio information, facilitate portfolio processes, and improve transparency, planning accuracy, and delivery effectiveness. The analyst supports portfolio operations and governance, intake and demand management, capacity planning and resource forecasting, strategic initiatives, delivery metrics, cross-team dependencies, release readiness, and portfolio financial planning. The role also contributes to process improvement and uses AI-enabled tools and automation to improve reporting, planning, forecasting, analytics, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
At least 3 years of experience in portfolio operations, PMO support, project coordination, delivery operations, business analysis, Agile operations, or a related discipline.
Experience supporting projects, programs, portfolios, or delivery teams across multiple stakeholders and initiatives.
Experience with capacity planning, forecasting, reporting, operational planning, or portfolio management.
Experience working in Agile environments and partnering with Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, and Engineering teams.
Experience supporting dependency management, risk tracking, release coordination, and delivery reporting.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to turn data into meaningful insights.
Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and collaboration skills.
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Experience preparing dashboards, portfolio reporting, presentations, and leadership materials.
Advanced knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite, Power BI, and reporting practices.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting Data, Analytics, Technology, Digital, or Enterprise Platform portfolios.
Experience with portfolio reporting, project coordination, or PMO functions.
Experience building executive dashboards, forecasting models, and portfolio reporting solutions.
Experience with Agile planning at scale, including Atlassian products such as Jira and Confluence.
Experience with AI-enabled productivity, reporting, forecasting, or analytics tools.

Responsibilities

Coordinate day-to-day portfolio operations across Data & Analytics initiatives.
Maintain portfolio roadmaps, planning artifacts, milestone tracking, and portfolio reporting.
Prepare dashboards, reports, presentations, and governance materials that show delivery progress, risks, constraints, and portfolio performance.
Keep portfolio data, metrics, and reporting accurate, current, and accessible.
Coordinate intake processes and analyze requests to support planning, prioritization, and investment discussions.
Work with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to ensure intake requests contain sufficient information for evaluation and planning.
Analyze delivery impacts, capacity, dependencies, resource requirements, and risks associated with incoming demand.
Coordinate quarterly and ongoing capacity planning and analyze demand against available capacity.
Develop resource forecasts, maintain workforce planning information, and prepare planning scenarios for leadership review.
Support contractor planning, workforce forecasting, and resource continuity activities.
Track milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items for strategic initiatives and cross-team efforts.
Coordinate stakeholder communications and prepare initiative status updates and leadership materials.
Monitor throughput, work-in-progress, aging work, blocked work, delivery flow, forecast accuracy, and delivery performance.
Analyze delivery data to identify bottlenecks, risks, and systemic constraints, and provide insights on predictability, planning effectiveness, and portfolio health.
Coordinate cross-team dependency tracking, communicate potential impacts, assist with risk resolution, and escalate unresolved concerns through portfolio processes.
Coordinate portfolio-level release visibility, readiness activities, reviews, communications, milestones, readiness indicators, implementation risks, and dependencies.
Support post-release reviews, lessons learned, and continuous improvement.
Prepare analysis and reporting for portfolio budgeting, forecasting, investment planning, funding discussions, annual planning, and variance analysis.
Maintain visibility into resource allocations, labor tracking, contractor investments, and portfolio funding information.
Support contractor forecasting, extension planning, and resource tracking, and maintain portfolio planning and investment documentation.
Develop and maintain portfolio processes, standards, operating procedures, and governance documentation.
Identify improvements to portfolio planning, reporting, forecasting, and operational practices; support data quality reviews and portfolio administration.
Standardize reporting approaches, templates, and governance artifacts, and recommend ways to reduce administrative overhead and improve portfolio effectiveness.
Use AI-enabled tools and support automation to improve reporting, planning, forecasting, analysis, dashboards, and portfolio analytics while reducing manual effort.

Benefits

Incentive bonus program.
401(k) savings plan with company match.
Annual companywide review process.
Flexible spending accounts.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Life and disability insurance.
Associate assistance program.
Paid parental and adoption leave.
Fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot.
Access to the Headspace mental health and wellness app.
Paid caregiver leave.
Mobile stipend.
Paid time off and one paid volunteer day per year.
Work-from-anywhere arrangements, including Mondays and Fridays for most roles and six work-from-anywhere weeks per year.
Seven associate wellness half days per year.
Merchandise discount on all company brands.
Career advancement opportunities and promotion from within.
Access to Associate Resource Groups.