Title: Portfolio Operations Manager
Location: Can be fully remote anywhere near a Client's Location(Austin, TX; Westlake, TX; Denver, CO; Pheonix, AZ)
Duration: 12 Months
Key Responsibilities:
Value Management & Benefits Realization
- Support and operationalize enterprise benefits realization frameworks, including tracking, validation, and reporting
- Partner with business and technology teams to define value hypotheses, KPIs, and outcome measures
- Execute value measurement processes that connect delivery outputs to business outcomes
- Ensure consistency and integrity of value data across tools (e.g., Clarity, BI reporting)
Portfolio Operations Execution
- Execute and continuously improve Lean-Agile portfolio workflows, including:
- Intake & demand management
- Prioritization support
- Execution tracking
- Maintain and enhance portfolio operating practices, SOPs, and templates
- Serve as a subject matter expert for portfolio processes and user adoption
Prioritization, OKRs & Alignment Support
- Facilitate and enable prioritization processes by preparing data, insights, and trade-off scenarios
- Assist teams in defining and refining OKRs tied to strategic themes
- Translate portfolio-level strategy into execution-ready artifacts and metrics
Reporting, Insights & Decision Support
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting artifacts that show
- Value realization
- Delivery performance
- Progress against strategic objectives
- Provide data-driven insights to governance forums and leadership reviews
- Partner with data teams to ensure reporting accuracy and alignment to standards
Process Design & Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to the design and refinement of end-to-end portfolio processes
- Identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements in:
- Workflow design
- Tool experience
- Data capture and reporting
- Drive continuous improvement through feedback loops and metrics
Change Management & Enablement
- Support rollout of new portfolio practices
- Training materials
- Role-based guidance
- Job aids and playbooks
- Assist in establishing Communities of Practice (CoP) and adoption mechanisms
Cross-Functional Partnership
Collaborate with:
Portfolio Governance teams (decision enablement)
- 5-8+ years in Portfolio Management, PMO, Value Management, or related disciplines
- Experience with: Lean-Agile practices and portfolio operations, Reporting / analytics (Power BI, Tableau, etc.), Process execution and improvement
- Strong analytical, facilitation, and communication skills
- Designs processes that protect business integrity and manage risks
- Executes sophisticated processes to efficiently manage interrelated projects and programs
- Establishes advanced processes to evaluate project requirements and drive execution success
- Experience with Clarity, Rally, Jira, or similar enterprise tools
- Exposure to benefits realization frameworks and OKR models
- SAFe certification or comparable portfolio management training
- Refines strategies and workflows to ensure adaptability in evolving circumstances
- Synthesizes complex data, manages resources, and develops strategic insights
- Establishes communication processes for smooth information flow with others involved in a project or effort
- Collaborates across teams, facilitates partnerships, and supports cooperative efforts
- Provides thought leadership in the business area and independently drives strategic initiatives
- Supports peers in technical areas to refine their knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Influences best practices to plan to prepare for opportunities or challenges
- Champions innovative solutions to improve efficiency
- Influences decisions that drive functional success and operational improvements
- Acts to achieve success in situations that require more action than what is normal
- Verbally articulates ideas impactfully, fostering open dialogue
- Inspires confidence with proven expertise, integrity, and accurate communication
- Presents compelling arguments to inspire action
- Sets performance-driven goals across groups and drives continuous improvement
- Leverages diverse expertise to develop strategies in cross-functional projects or programs
- Creates clear, persuasive, and professional written documents that meet business standards
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Spectraforce Technologies
Jul 15, 2026