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$140k–$175k/yr
Full-time
bachelor degree, postgraduate degree
Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Mental health benefits, Financial health benefits, 401k retirement savings
Posted 8d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Senior Manager is responsible for establishing and leading the Global Technology portfolio management function, including governance, prioritization, and execution processes. They facilitate executive-level decision-making and partner with stakeholders to ensure technology investments align with strategic business objectives.
Requirements
Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in project, program, and portfolio management with a strong background in governance and investment prioritization. A bachelor's degree is required, while an advanced degree and relevant certifications like PMP or PgMP are preferred.
Full job description
The Senior Manager, Portfolio Management is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously improving the Global Technology (GT) portfolio management function. This role drives governance, prioritization, and portfolio execution processes to ensure technology investments align with business strategy, resource capacity, risk appetite, and value realization objectives. The position serves as a facilitator of portfolio governance forums and is the owner of the Global Technology Intake/Prioritization processes. The Senior Manager partners with executive leadership, business stakeholders, technology leaders, architecture teams, and delivery teams to evaluate incoming demand, guide investment decisions, manage portfolio health, and ensure successful execution of strategic initiatives
This position is hybrid, 3 times in the week at the office in Northbrook, IL.
Responsibilities
Portfolio Governance Leadership
Establish and operate the Global Technology portfolio governance framework, including processes, roles, decision rights, stage gates, and meeting cadences.
Develop and maintain a tiered governance structure that supports operational intake reviews, cross-functional portfolio prioritization, and executive investment decision-making.
Facilitate Portfolio Reviews meetings with senior executives, and technology leadership to drive prioritization, funding, sequencing, and trade-off decisions.
Ensure governance processes are scalable, transparent, and aligned with enterprise strategic objectives.
Lead continuous improvement efforts to mature portfolio management capabilities and governance effectiveness.
Portfolio Prioritization & Demand Management
Manage the enterprise technology portfolio and maintain a single source of truth for all approved, proposed, and in-flight initiatives.
Lead the end-to-end process that supports evaluation and prioritization of incoming technology requests based on strategic alignment, business value, risk, capacity, dependencies, and benefit realization potential.
Facilitate prioritization discussions across business and technology stakeholders to resolve competing priorities and resource conflicts.
Drive capacity-aligned investment decisions using portfolio data, resource constraints, and strategic objectives.
Create and maintain scoring models, prioritization frameworks, and decision-support tools that improve investment transparency.
Stakeholder Engagement
Act as a liaison between executive business leaders and Global Technology regarding portfolio investments and prioritization decisions.
Prepare and present executive-level portfolio reviews, dashboards, investment recommendations, risk assessments, and strategic options.
Facilitate cross-functional discussions with SVPs, Finance, business sponsors, and GT leadership to drive alignment and timely decision-making.
Build trusted partnerships across the enterprise to ensure stakeholder engagement and organizational buy-in.
Manage the performance of direct reports by defining accountabilities, establishing performance objectives and goals, providing feedback and guidance, and ensuring adherence to organizational policies
Read and follow the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct, and follow all physical and digital security practices
Performs other duties as directed
Qualifications
Advanced portfolio, program, and project management expertise.
Strong strategic thinking and business acumen.
Excellent executive-level communication, influencing, and presentation skills.
Proven ability to balance competing priorities and make data-driven investment decisions.
Deep understanding of financial management, forecasting, and benefits realization.
Ability to lead through ambiguity and organizational change.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Ability to build trusted partnerships across executive, business, and technical teams.
10+ years of experience in project, program, and portfolio management.
Experience managing enterprise or large-scale portfolios with multiple programs and cross-functional dependencies.
Demonstrated experience in portfolio governance, investment prioritization, and capacity planning
Experience developing and presenting executive-level business cases and portfolio reports.
Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred (e.g., MBA, MA in Project Management, or equivalent).
PMP, PgMP, PfMP, Prince2, and/or Agile certifications preferred but not required.
What we offer:
Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $140,000-$175,000 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
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A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
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