Associate Director Portfolio Management Business B3 III

Key Responsibilities Product and Platform Strategy

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, business opportunities, challenges, and desired outcomes.
• Translate complex or ambiguous needs into clearly framed opportunities and capability considerations.
• Develop a holistic view of the products, platforms, data assets, and technology capabilities relevant to an opportunity.
• Facilitate evaluation of how existing and planned capabilities could be leveraged to address business needs.
• Identify capability gaps, overlaps, dependencies, and opportunities for reuse across products and platforms.
• Help ensure proposed approaches align with broader product, platform, data, and technology strategies.
• Develop strategic recommendations and decision materials informed by input from accountable subject-matter experts.

• Bring together Product Management, Architecture, Data, Engineering, Operations, and other subject-matter experts to explore potential solution approaches.
• Structure and facilitate the evaluation of options based on expected value, strategic alignment, feasibility, complexity, scalability, reuse, dependencies, and delivery implications.
• Coordinate cross-functional impact assessments across products, platforms, data, integrations, processes, stakeholder groups, and delivery teams.
• Ensure the appropriate experts identify the capabilities, investments, decisions, and dependencies required to advance an initiative.
• Synthesize expert input into a cohesive view of potential approaches, trade-offs, risks, and downstream impacts.
• Surface cross-functional considerations that may not be visible within individual product or delivery teams.
• Ensure detailed requirements, technical design, architecture decisions, and backlog ownership remain with the appropriate accountable teams.

• Translate an agreed strategic direction into a sequenced and actionable delivery plan.
• Work with accountable product and delivery leaders to define major capabilities, work streams, dependencies, milestones, decision points, and expected outcomes.
• Facilitate alignment on ownership and clarify how work will progress across participating teams.
• Develop sequencing recommendations that consider business urgency, technical dependencies, capacity, readiness, and opportunities for incremental value delivery.
• Identify critical-path activities, cross-team dependencies, and decisions that could affect execution.
• Support the transition from strategy and planning into delivery by ensuring teams share a common understanding of objectives, sequencing, and accountabilities.
• Adapt plans as new information, delivery constraints, or strategic priorities emerge.

• Maintain visibility across related development efforts and help ensure they advance as part of a coherent product and platform direction.
• Connect initiatives across organizational boundaries to identify dependencies, duplication, gaps, and opportunities for alignment.
• Convene the appropriate business, product, architecture, data, technology, and delivery stakeholders to address cross-functional questions.
• Help leadership understand how individual initiatives contribute to broader business outcomes and platform capabilities.
• Partner with portfolio and product leaders to connect strategic priorities, investment decisions, and delivery plans.
• Promote scalable and reusable approaches where appropriate while recognizing when business needs require differentiated solutions.

• Establish fit-for-purpose planning, governance, and reporting structures for assigned initiatives.
• Maintain an integrated view of major milestones, dependencies,…