Transformation Portfolio Lead

Euromonitor•Chicago, IL

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Transformation Portfolio Lead supports reporting, visibility, governance and dependency management across Euromonitor's priority transformation initiatives, while execution ownership remains with divisional workstream leaders. Reporting to the VP, Strategy & Transformation, the role provides analysis and insights to support portfolio prioritisation decisions and helps maintain a clear, consistent view of transformation activity across the business. The role is an individual contributor and works through influence, coordination and strong operating discipline. It makes transformation activity visible, identifies and escalates risks, dependencies and delivery issues, and supports consistent ways of working across cross-divisional change through agreed standards, tools and forums. This role offers broad exposure to priority transformation work, the opportunity to support senior leadership forums, and the chance to improve how a global business manages transformation delivery, reporting and governance.

Requirements

Leadership & influence: builds trust and holds the cadence with senior stakeholders without formal authority over their teams.
Portfolio & PMO expertise: has supported or coordinated transformation portfolios, PMOs or large-scale change programmes in a complex, multi-divisional organisation, with strong portfolio reporting, dependency tracking and risk management capability.
Dependency & decision facilitation: identifies cross-divisional dependencies and the decisions needed, and escalates them for resolution.
Insight & communication: translates complex portfolio information into concise, practical reporting and governance materials for senior stakeholders.
Relevant experience supporting transformation portfolios, PMOs or large-scale change programmes.
PMP, PgMP or MSP welcome.

Responsibilities

Maintain reporting and visibility across priority transformation initiatives.
Analyze portfolio information to help assess alignment to strategy, delivery progress and the type and scale of expected business impact, including revenue, cost, risk, capability and employee or customer experience.
Provide clear, consistent reporting that supports sponsors, programme leaders and governance forums in understanding progress, risks and areas requiring attention.
Identify, track and help manage cross-divisional dependencies, flagging clashes early, including resource pressures on shared central teams.
Prepare governance materials, highlight risks and blockers, and escalate delivery issues through the agreed operating cadence so that sponsors and leadership forums have the information needed to make timely decisions.
Support, coordinate and continuously improve common transformation standards, tools and ways of working for divisional transformation PMs and programme leaders.
Help build consistent language, templates and processes for cross-divisional and divisional change, while enabling a practical community of practice that shares learning and improves delivery discipline.
Coordinate the operating cadence for priority transformation initiatives, including reporting cycles, governance meetings and follow-up actions.
Support sponsors and programme leaders in tracking intended benefits, adoption and delivery performance, ensuring that progress, issues and changes are visible and acted on through the right forums.