Sr. Product Manager – Option and Sustaining Portfolio Planner

Lenovo•Morrisville, NC

12d

About The Position

The Option and Sustaining Portfolio Planner manages priorities and lifecycle decisions for Lenovo ISG server options and sustaining releases, translating customer and business needs into clear portfolio plans. The role spans server platforms and option categories, improves sustaining processes, oversees release readiness, and coordinates lifecycle planning. It works with server and option Product Managers to resolve trade-offs, clarify ownership, and improve delivery and customer outcomes. The planner sets priorities, recommends decisions on scope and timing, and turns cross-functional input into practical plans with clear trade-offs, dependencies, owners, and decisions. The role oversees sustaining releases and manages server options and sustaining content from introduction through transition, withdrawal, and end of support. It aligns lifecycle milestones with platform roadmaps, supply, certification, service readiness, and customer transitions. The role represents Product Management in cross-functional reviews and drives alignment across Product Management, Development, Architecture, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Services, and Commercial teams. It maintains reliable portfolio data and reporting, uses planning, analytics, automation, and AI-assisted tools to support decisions, and provides concise product and business guidance to leadership. The position requires influence, clarity, and delivery ownership in complex, matrixed environments.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in server, infrastructure, product management, portfolio management, program management, or technical leadership.
Strong understanding of enterprise server products, options, supply chain, quality, service, and lifecycle management.
Working knowledge of server architecture and major option areas such as processors, memory, storage, networking, accelerators, power, cooling, firmware, and operating systems.
Ability to assess feasibility, dependencies, validation needs, execution risk, and lifecycle impact with technical and operations teams.
Comfort using planning, analytics, automation, and AI-assisted tools to improve decisions and execution.
Ability to influence outcomes across functions through expertise, clarity of thinking, and delivery ownership.
Ability to drive alignment and accountability in complex, matrixed environments.
Ability to ensure decisions are understood, executed consistently, and deliver intended business outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Proven success in cross-functional leadership, process improvement, and portfolio decision-making.
Experience working across global, cross-functional organizations.
Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity and drive decisions to closure.

Responsibilities

Set priorities for server options and sustaining work, balancing customer need, business value, quality, security, supply continuity, feasibility, and lifecycle impact.
Recommend decisions on scope, timing, deferral, replacement, and retirement with Product Managers and delivery teams.
Turn cross-functional input into practical plans with clear trade-offs, dependencies, owners, and decisions.
Improve sustaining processes, decision-making, execution speed, predictability, and transparency.
Identify gaps, duplicate work, unclear ownership, and bottlenecks, and establish practical roles, criteria, measures, and escalation paths.
Use lessons learned, analytics, automation, and AI-assisted tools to create repeatable improvements.
Oversee sustaining releases across supported server platforms and option categories.
Combine demand, dependencies, resources, material readiness, validation, and customer commitments into release plans.
Track milestones, risks, and decisions, and provide status and recovery recommendations to leadership.
Manage server options and sustaining content from introduction through transition, withdrawal, and end of support.
Align lifecycle milestones with platform roadmaps, supply, certification, service readiness, and customer transitions.
Simplify the portfolio and maintain continuity through replacement plans, documented impacts, and assigned owners.
Represent Product Management in cross-functional reviews and maintain visibility into priorities, risks, dependencies, decisions, and owners.
Drive alignment across Product Management, Development, Architecture, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Services, and Commercial teams.
Resolve conflicts in requirements, ownership, priority, and timing, and drive agreed actions to closure.
Translate complex issues into concise product and business guidance for leadership.
Maintain reliable portfolio data and reporting for backlog, release readiness, lifecycle actions, risks, decisions, and ownership.
Use planning, analytics, and automation tools to improve traceability, expose bottlenecks, and support decisions.
Resolve inconsistencies across teams, regions, or systems to maintain a single source of truth.
Influence outcomes across functions, drive alignment and accountability, and ensure decisions are understood and executed consistently.
Contribute to a high-performing, collaborative, and effective team environment.