Portfolio Manager - SAP

Grainger Businesses • Lake Forest, IL

2d • $112,900 - $188,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Portfolio Manager is a cross-functional leader who combines deep technical
expertise
with strategic portfolio oversight. This role partners with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to define and deliver high-impact solutions, manage intake and prioritization, and ensure governance across multiple initiatives. The Portfolio Manager authors project documentation and drives continuous improvement
while
maintaining
visibility into portfolio health, compliance, and performance metrics.

This role will also support a large-scale SAP brownfield transformation, including migration from SAP ECC 617 to SAP S/4HANA, with significant cross-functional coordination required across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, data, testing, and release workstreams. A key responsibility will be overseeing the readiness multiple third party integrations that must be assessed, tested, remediated as needed, and transitioned to the AWS cloud as part of the migration

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance or related field or equivalent experience required
• 5+ years experience in business analysis, portfolio management, or related roles
• Technical expertise in IT systems, workflows, and data structures
• Experience managing large bodies of work in enterprise environments
• Analytical, communication, and conflict resolution skills
• Experience operating in an agile context and influencing senior stakeholders
• Verbal & written communication skills
• Hands-on experience with SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration programs, preferably in a brownfield model.
• Experience managing or coordinating large-scale integration portfolios with multiple third-party integrations/interfaces.
• Experience coordinating migration dependencies involving AWS cloud infrastructure or application/integration workloads.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of MRO or similar industries

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Strategy & Roadmap: Define and communicate portfolio strategy and roadmaps, translating business objectives into executable technical plans while resolving cross-initiative dependencies, conflicts, and trade-offs.
• Financial & Business Management: Develop business cases with measurable KPIs and benefits; manage budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, and corrective actions; present financials and recommendations to executive stakeholders.
• Intake & Prioritization: Govern portfolio intake and prioritization, consolidating demand for engineering teams, resolving priority conflicts, and monitoring intake quality and throughput.
• Governance, Risk & Compliance: Lead stage-gate governance for compliance, data security, and regulatory reviews; identify, mitigate, and escalate risks with clear stakeholder communication.
• Delivery Leadership & Execution: Guide solution approach and execution, participate in sprint ceremonies, and communicate project status, risks, and issues to key stakeholders.
• Requirements & Impact Analysis: Lead requirements definition and validation, acceptance criteria, and functional impact analysis to ensure solutions effectively address business needs.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with engineering, product, finance, and operations to align on scope, delivery timelines, costs, and execution priorities.
• Data-Driven Enablement & Improvement: Create scalable, automated dashboards and decision artifacts; apply industry best practices and drive continuous improvement through performance metrics and stakeholder feedback

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 23 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees