Technology Portfolio Manager

Overview

Every moment of every day, people all over the world turn to Panasonic to make their lives simpler, more enjoyable, more productive and more secure. Since our founding almost a century ago, we’ve been committed to improving peoples’ lives and making the world a better place–one customer, one business, one innovative leap at a time. Come join our journey!

Responsibilities

Technology Portfolio Manager

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Meet the Recruiter: Amber Smallwood

What You'll Get To Do:

The Technology Portfolio Manager manages the intake, assessment, prioritization, and ongoing oversight of Information Technology demand and the technology portfolio, ensuring business needs are aligned with organizational strategy, available resources, and technology priorities. This role provides portfolio-level visibility and decision support across demand, investment, capacity, financials, risks, dependencies, and major initiatives to enable informed technology prioritization, resource allocation, and investment planning.

Manage Demand Intake and Assessment

• Oversee the intake, documentation, qualification, and assessment of Information Technology demand.
• Work with business stakeholders and Technology Engagement Partners to translate identified business needs into clearly defined demand and ensure requests are appropriately understood, evaluated, and prepared for prioritization and investment discussions.

Manage Portfolio Prioritization and Demand Lifecycle

• Coordinate the progression of demand through established portfolio processes from intake through prioritization and approval.
• Facilitate prioritization discussions, maintain demand status and disposition decisions, and ensure stakeholders have the information necessary to evaluate competing priorities and make informed investment decisions.

Provide Portfolio Visibility and Decision Support

• Maintain visibility into demand, approved initiatives, investments, resource impacts, risks, dependencies, and overall portfolio health.
• Develop portfolio analyses, reporting, dashboards, and executive summaries that support leadership planning and portfolio decision-making.

Support Capacity Planning and Portfolio Analysis

• Partner with Information Technology leaders to understand resource availability, competing priorities, delivery impacts, and capacity constraints.
• Analyze portfolio demand against available capacity and identify risks, conflicts, dependencies, and tradeoffs requiring leadership attention.

Facilitate Investment Planning and Portfolio Financial Visibility

• Support technology investment planning by maintaining visibility into portfolio financials, funding requirements, planning assumptions, and investment priorities.
• Partner with Finance and Information Technology leadership to support portfolio planning cycles and investment reviews.

Coordinate Cross-Functional Portfolio Activities

• Partner with Technology Engagement Partners, Project Management Office, Finance, Architecture, Security, Product, and Delivery teams to ensure portfolio information remains accurate, dependencies are understood, decisions are documented, and stakeholders remain aligned regarding portfolio priorities and impacts.

Drive Continuous Improvement of Portfolio Management Practices

• Identify opportunities to improve demand management, portfolio visibility, prioritization methods, reporting, stakeholder experience, and portfolio management processes.
• Contribute to improvements in tools, reporting, workflow efficiency, and portfolio transparency.

Scope

• Responsible for managing the Information Technology demand portfolio, including intake, assessment, prioritization, portfolio visibility, and ongoing monitoring of demand, investments, risks, dependencies, and resource impacts.
• Leads and facilitates the processes and provides decision support for prioritization and investment decisions across multiple business functions and Information Technology teams.
• Influences technology investment, prioritization, and resource allocation decisions through portfolio analysis, recommendations, and decision support rather than direct authority.
• Operates as an individual contributor with no direct reports.
• Works across business and Information Technology functions to coordinate demand management activities and maintain visibility into portfolio health and performance

Qualifications

What You'll Bring:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Management, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 5 or more years of progressive experience in demand management, portfolio management, business analysis, project portfolio management, information technology planning, business relationship management, consulting, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience managing demand intake, prioritization, portfolio oversight, resource planning, or investment planning activities.
• Experience working across multiple business functions and Information Technology organizations in a complex enterprise environment.
• Experience supporting executive decision-making through portfolio analysis, reporting, recommendations, and planning activities preferred.
• Experience with Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) practices, processes, and supporting tools, particularly ServiceNow SPM, preferred. 

Problem Solving: Complexity of problems

• Solves complex business and technology portfolio challenges involving competing priorities, limited resources, conflicting stakeholder needs, financial constraints, dependencies, and organizational objectives.
• Evaluates incoming demand and assesses prioritization considerations, stakeholder impacts, business value, risks, dependencies, and resource implications.
• Requires strong analytical and critical thinking skills to balance short-term business needs with long-term organizational priorities.
• Frequently operates with incomplete information and must develop recommendations and alternatives to support leadership decision-making.

Communications: Key communications contacts (internal/external) and level of persuasion required

• Communicates regularly with business leaders, Technology Engagement Partners, Information Technology leadership, Finance, Architecture, Security, Product, Delivery, and Project Management Office stakeholders.
• Develops and presents portfolio analyses, recommendations, dashboards, investment considerations, prioritization options, and executive-level summaries.
• Facilitates discussions regarding demand prioritization, resource constraints, portfolio performance, risks, dependencies, an investment planning.
• Requires strong facilitation, consultation, negotiation, presentation, analytical storytelling, and relationship-building skills.
• Must influence stakeholders without direct authority and build alignment across organizations with competing priorities and objectives.

Other Requirements: e.g. Working conditions, physical requirements, travel, etc.

• Remote position with the ability to work effectively in a virtual environment in accordance with company policy.
• Periodic travel may be required to support planning sessions, leadership meetings, portfolio reviews, and organizational events.
• Ability to work across multiple time zones and collaborate with geographically distributed teams.
• Occasional work outside normal business hours may be required to support critical portfolio planning cycles, prioritization activities, or leadership decision forum

Benefits & Perks - What's In It For You:

Panasonic prioritizes total well-being and offers comprehensive benefits options to support physical, emotional, financial, social, and environmental health:

• Health Benefits – Offering medical, dental, vision, prescription plans, plus Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
• Voluntary Benefits – Life, accident, critical illness, disability, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance.
• Panasonic Retirement Savings & Investment Plan (PRSIP) – 401(k) plan with company matching contributions and immediate vesting.
• Paid Time-Off Benefits – Vacation, holidays, personal days, sick leave, volunteer, and parental & caregiver leave.
• Educational Assistance – Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses after six months of service.
• Health Management and Wellbeing Programs –Lifestyle Spending Account, EAP, virtual health management, chronic condition, neurodiversity, tobacco cessation, substance abuse support, and life stage and fertility resources. Available to eligible employees starting the first day of the month following your start date. Eligibility for each benefit may vary based on employment status, location, and length of service.
• Employee Recognition Program - High5 employee recognition and awards platform, quarterly and annual employee recognition
• Annual Bonus Program - Opportunity for an annual performance-based bonus.

We Take Opportunity Seriously:

At Panasonic, we are committed to a workplace that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. Fairness and Honesty have been part of our core values for more than 100 years and we are proud of our diverse culture as an equal opportunity employer. 

The wage range of $105,000 - $130,000 is just one component of Panasonic’s total package. Actual compensation varies depending on the individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and incentives.

​We understand that your career search may look different than others and embrace the professional, personal, educational, and volunteer opportunities through which people gain experience. If you are actively looking or starting to explore new opportunities, send us your application!​

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristic protected by law. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S.

Thank you for your interest in Panasonic.

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