Strategic Portfolio Manager - Hybrid

Panasonic • Irvine, CA

3d • $116,000 - $195,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Serves as the primary lead for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) and Project Portfolio Management (PPM), supporting the company’s strategic planning, portfolio prioritization, investment allocation, and decision-support processes through effective use of enterprise SPM/PPM processes and tools. This strategic business role represents the company’s broader enterprise portfolio and planning needs and works closely with Product Line Management (PLM), Program Management (PMO), Business Units (BU), Engineering (GTO), Sales (GSO), Finance (FIN), and Information Technology (IT) to drive planning alignment and improve decision-making effectiveness across product portfolio planning, prioritization, funding, execution tracking, and decision support. The role drives portfolio planning process design, decision framework definition, governance alignment, and the enabling capabilities supported by SPM/PPM tools (e.g., Broadcom Clarity), and helps improve planning discipline, decision quality, and cross-functional alignment. The role also supports evaluation of portfolio priorities, funding options, resource constraints, and trade-offs across initiatives to help ensure decisions align with corporate strategy, market demand, customer commitments, financial objectives, technology roadmaps, and broader enterprise value objectives. The role contributes to the strategic mid-term planning (MTP) process by providing recommendations and decision support for product portfolio management, prioritization, and investment allocation in support of company commitments and long-term enterprise value. The role also advances related planning, governance, and enterprise decision-support initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required in business, engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related field.
• 8+ years in strategic planning, portfolio management, business intelligence, product operations, program management, portfolio governance, or related enterprise planning and decision-support roles in a complex environment.
• 8+ years of experience with Broadcom Clarity PPM or comparable SPM/PPM tools (e.g., Planview), including business use, reporting, planning process enablement, governance, and implementation support.
• Strong strategic thinking capability, including the ability to connect business objectives, market drivers, customer commitments, financial trade-offs, capacity constraints, and execution risk into practical portfolio recommendations.
• Working knowledge of Broadcom Clarity PPM capabilities or equivalent SPM/PPM processes, tools, and business use cases, including portfolio planning, governance, reporting, workflow support, and decision support.
• Strong understanding of strategic project and portfolio management processes, including intake, prioritization, resource planning, financial planning, governance, scenario evaluation, investment decision support, and executive reporting.
• Ability to translate business needs into planning processes, decision requirements, and enabling platform capabilities, then drive execution with cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, including defining metrics, interpreting data, and using insights to improve planning quality and decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or support change management and user adoption for enterprise platforms or process transformations.
• Proficiency with standard productivity tools (for example, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio) and familiarity with enterprise workflow and reporting tools (for example, Jira, ServiceNow, Salesforce, and dashboarding platforms).
• Clear written and verbal communication, including presenting recommendations, risks, and trade-offs to cross-functional stakeholders and leaders.
• Ability to work effectively across functions with shared ownership, competing priorities, and multiple decision-makers.
• Strong background supporting cross-functional process change, governance implementation, and operating model design.
• Track record of improving, modernizing, or replacing legacy tools and workflows, including phased rollouts, migration support, and adoption support.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience partnering with technology teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors or implementation partners preferred.
• Exposure to planning, portfolio governance, or enterprise decision-support processes in a multi-stakeholder environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Portfolio Planning and Decision Support (30%)
• Portfolio Prioritization, Investment Planning, and Strategic Decision Support (25%)
• Portfolio Governance, Data Integrity, and Change Enablement (20%)
• Portfolio Reporting, Insights, and Executive Decision Support (15%)
• Strategic Initiatives and Continuous Improvement (10%)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level