Senior Capital Portfolio Manager

Job Summary:

The Senior Capital Portfolio Manager is responsible for the enterprisewide selection, prioritization, optimization, and governance of the capital project portfolio to ensure alignment with organizational strategy, maximum business value realization, and optimized use of financial and organizational resources.

What you will be doing:

Portfolio Strategy & Alignment

• Validate alignment of capital projects and programs with organizational strategies and defined measures of success.
• Ensure portfolio decisions support long-term business objectives and risk tolerance.

Portfolio Planning & Optimization

• Optimize the capital portfolio pipeline by balancing demand, priorities, and available resource capacity.
• Analyze portfolio dependencies, constraints, and scenario impacts to support informed investment decisions

Financial Management

• Allocate capital funding across projects and programs in alignment with approved budgets and strategic priorities.
• Develop portfolio-level financial plans and oversee capital spend to ensure adherence to approved funding.
• Track and report expected versus realized business benefits at the portfolio level
• Deliver accurate and timely financial reports to leadership.

Governance & Oversight

• Manage enterprise capital portfolio governance, including communication, oversight, escalation, and constraint management.
• Support and facilitate governance reviews, stage-gate decisions, and executive approval forums.
• Prepare and present decisionready analyses and recommendations to executive and investment approval forums
• Ensure consistent application of capital governance standards across sites and platforms

Roadmap & Performance Reporting

• Track, report, and monitor progress against the enterprise capital portfolio roadmap.

Executive Support

• Facilitate executive management participation by providing clear analysis, recommendations, and decision-ready information.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Finance, or related discipline
• Master’s degree in business administration, Engineering Management, or equivalent education or experience preferred
• Minimum of 10–15 years of experience in capital project management, program management, or portfolio management within an industrial, manufacturing, or heavyasset environment
• Demonstrated experience managing multisite or enterpriselevel capital portfolios
• Experience in capital portfolio selection, prioritization, and funding allocation
• Strong working knowledge of capital governance, financial planning, and demandversuscapacity management
• Experience supporting executive leadership through governance forums, investment reviews, and stagegate decision processes
• Proven ability to develop portfolio metrics, dashboards, multiyear roadmaps, and executivelevel reporting
• Experience overseeing portfoliolevel risk, interdependencies, and value realization
• Strong analytical and financial acumen, proficiency with SAP, preferred but not required
• Ability to evaluate portfoliolevel value, risk, and tradeoffs
• Excellent organizational, prioritization, and decision-support skills
• Effective communicator with ability to present to executive leadership
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority

Certifications (Preferred, not required):

• Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP®)
• Project Management Professional (PMP®)
• Lean / Six Sigma (Black Belt or equivalent)