Description
About the Department: The Digital Enterprise Technology (DET) Strategic Portfolio team helps Salesforce scale by aligning our strategic investment portfolio with business strategy and optimizing value realization across the enterprise. We provide value oriented planning processes, quality portfolio level data for strategic decision making, and amazing customer service to support delivery. We enable DET leaders to envision our future, ruthlessly prioritize, drive collaboration, showcase the value of our work, and guide transformative initiatives.
About the Role:
The Senior Director of Strategic Portfolio Management is a key leadership role responsible for driving alignment between the company’s strategic objectives and our portfolio of initiatives, programs, and investments. This role ensures that resources, funding, and execution are prioritized to deliver maximum business value and enable innovation across the organization.
As a strategic thought partner to executive leadership, the Senior Director oversees the end-to-end portfolio lifecycle— from strategy formulation and investment planning through delivery oversight and performance realization.
Key Responsibilities:
Partner with executive leadership to translate corporate strategy into a balanced, actionable portfolio of initiatives.
Lead annual and quarterly portfolio planning, prioritization, and rebalancing processes.
Establish and lead enterprise-level portfolio governance to ensure investment decisions align with strategic priorities, risk tolerance, and ROI expectations.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on prioritization, investment strategy, and portfolio health.
Maintain a forward-looking view of the portfolio to anticipate dependencies, resource constraints, and market impacts.
Provide executive insights and recommendations to guide strategic trade-offs and capital allocation.
Define and manage key portfolio performance indicators (e.g., value realization, time-to-market, resource utilization, risk exposure).
Drive adoption of enterprise tools and analytics for portfolio visibility and scenario planning.
Communicate portfolio performance and strategic impacts through concise executive dashboards and narratives.
Innovate portfolio process at the team, organization, and enterprise level to align to modern standards. Be a champion for change amid ruthless prioritization.
Lead and develop a high-performing team of portfolio managers and analysts by fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision making.
Build a collaborative teaming environment that champions creativity, innovation, and learning. Be willing to have a beginner's mind.
Minimum Requirements
10-15+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, portfolio management, or enterprise PMO leadership roles within a large, complex, or global organization—preferably in high tech, SaaS, or digital industries.
Proven success in leading enterprise portfolio governance, investment prioritization, and large-scale transformation initiatives.
Strong financial acumen, with experience managing multimillion-dollar budgets and capital allocation and capital expenditure decisions.
Expertise in agile portfolio management, capacity management, product lifecycle management, and/or strategy execution frameworks.
Skills & Competencies:
Strategic thinker with strong analytical, decision-making, and influencing skills.
Exceptional communication and executive presentation abilities.
Demonstrated success leading through ambiguity and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders; able to work well in a cross-functional, matrix management environment.
Ability to effectively manage scenario planning across competing demands and changing priorities; and guide product and IT teams to do the same.
Deep understanding of innovation, product, and technology ecosystems.
Strategic and tactical abilities to document and analyze metrics and data
Ability to identify trends, opportunities, gaps and best practices across multiple portfolio and product teams that vary in scope, leadership and capabilities
Strong facilitation skills, ensuring team is continuously adapting and improving their productivity
Success in this Role Looks Like:
Portfolio decisions clearly reflect strategic intent and drive measurable business outcomes.
Leadership has a transparent, real-time view of portfolio performance and risk.
Execution speed and value realization improve year-over-year.
The organization operates with greater agility, discipline, and confidence in strategic decision-making.
Develops, maintains, and strengthens partnerships with others inside and outside the team who provide decision making, information, or support
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