Portfolio Strategy & Transformation Lead

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The Enterprise Platform Engineering & Operations (EPEO) organization is transforming how it plans, prioritizes, funds, and delivers value. As part of this journey, EPEO is evolving from a platform-centric operating model toward a more product-centric approach focused on outcomes, customer value, strategic alignment, and organizational effectiveness.

The team is seeking a Product Transformation Lead to help drive this transformation. This role will support EPEO strategic planning, organizational OKRs, portfolio planning, product transformation, and Center of Excellence initiatives. The successful candidate will partner with leaders and teams across EPEO to improve how work is planned, aligned, governed, measured, and delivered.

This opportunity is well suited for someone who enjoys connecting strategy to execution, improving operating models and ways of working, facilitating organizational change, and helping leaders make informed investment and prioritization decisions.

• Lead and facilitate portfolio planning cycles, quarterly planning activities, roadmap development, and organizational rhythms that improve planning predictability, reduce reactive work, and support strategic decision-making, investment alignment, and transformation objectives.
• Develop portfolio reporting, planning artifacts, executive presentations, dashboards, and decision-support materials that provide visibility into portfolio health, capacity, investment allocation, product ownership, and organizational performance.
• Analyze portfolio health, capacity, dependencies, risks, value delivery, workforce allocation, product and platform ownership, and investment trends to identify insights, opportunities, and recommendations for leadership.
• Facilitate portfolio investment analysis, prioritization discussions, scenario planning, and tradeoff evaluations to help leaders align resources, funding, and capacity to strategic outcomes.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve portfolio planning, roadmap, governance, and operating model artifacts to support organizational alignment, transparency, and decision-making.
• Support the development of organizational visibility and planning capabilities, including team-to-product alignment, workforce capacity, cost transparency, and investment management.

• Facilitate organization-wide OKR planning, alignment, and continuous improvement activities to strengthen the connection between strategy, portfolio investments, and measurable business outcomes.
• Facilitate planning workshops, portfolio reviews, leadership alignment sessions, and transformation discussions to build consensus, identify opportunities, and drive organizational alignment.
• Partner with leaders to define measurable objectives and key results that align strategic priorities, portfolio investments, and expected business outcomes.
• Develop outcome-based reporting, analytics, and insights that help leaders measure progress, evaluate value delivery, identify risks, and make informed strategic…