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 Director of Strategic Portfolio Management is a key role in transforming the way we manage our portfolio of initiatives, programs, and investments. This role will be instrumental in strengthening the way we manage a fit-for-purpose, flexible and scalable approach that will drive ownership and accountability and increase efficiency and effectiveness.
Ensure DET is focusing on what matters most.
(Improved value delivery, more time back to the organization, the right information at the right time, optimized resource allocation)
Key Responsibilities
Partner with executive leadership to translate corporate strategy into a balanced, actionable portfolio of initiatives.
Innovate portfolio process at the team, organization, and enterprise level to align to modern standards. Be a champion for change amid ruthless prioritization.
Execute annual and quarterly portfolio planning, prioritization, and rebalancing processes.
Manage enterprise-level portfolio governance to ensure investment decisions align with strategic priorities, risk tolerance, and ROI expectations.
Maintain a forward-looking view of the portfolio to anticipate dependencies, resource constraints, and market impacts.
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.
Minimum Requirements
10+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, portfolio management, financial analysis or enterprise PMO leadership roles within a large, complex 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.
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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