Technology Portfolio Delivery Manager

At Dexter, we manufacture and distribute axles, accessories, and towing components primarily serving the commercial trailer, RV, marine, agriculture, and manufactured housing markets. We’re building products and systems that are rooted in a culture of safety, collaboration, and innovation.

Headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, Dexter has manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Employing state-of-the-art robotics, precision welding equipment, and automated machining processes, Dexter has achieved over 65 years of success through a commitment to the principles of superior quality, continuous improvement, and unparalleled customer service.

At Dexter, technology supports a complex manufacturing and distribution organization and helps our teams work more safely, efficiently, and effectively. We are seeking a Technology Portfolio & Delivery Manager to create transparency across the technology portfolio and personally lead selected high-priority initiatives from planning through implementation.

This role sits at the intersection of portfolio governance and hands-on project delivery. You will build real plans, maintain a clear view of risks and dependencies, coordinate stakeholders, facilitate practical trade-off discussions, and help drive priority work to the finish line. Success comes through project leadership, influence, disciplined follow-through, and trusted partnership across the business and IT.

• Maintain a decision-ready portfolio view. Track objectives, milestones, status, dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and required decisions across technology programs, projects, and initiatives.
• Build practical intake and governance. Establish and continuously improve routines so new demand is consistently documented, assessed, sequenced, and routed for leadership review.
• Facilitate planning and prioritization. Coordinate roadmap discussions, provide objective analysis and practical recommendations, and ensure decisions remain with the appropriate leaders.
• Create clear executive reporting. Prepare concise dashboards, portfolio reviews, steering committee materials, status summaries, decision logs, and action tracking.
• Support investment decisions. Organize and validate information for business cases, capacity planning, benefits tracking, and value-focused portfolio discussions.
• Surface cross-portfolio risk early. Identify resource conflicts, dependencies, and systemic delivery risks; coordinate resolution and escalation when leadership action is required.

• Lead selected priority initiatives end to end. Manage work from initiation through implementation, stabilization, and transition to operations.
• Turn direction into executable plans. Define scope, outcomes, milestones, work streams, roles, decision rights, governance, and success measures.
• Use disciplined delivery controls. Build and maintain schedules, RAID logs, dependency maps, communication plans, status reports, change controls, readiness checklists, and cutover plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional contributors. Align business, technical, vendor, and functional teams; clarify ownership, maintain momentum, and drive timely follow-through.
• Manage risk and remove blockers. Monitor scope, schedule, quality, risk, and readiness; resolve issues at the working level and elevate with clear options and recommendations.
• Tailor the delivery approach. Apply Agile, waterfall, or hybrid practices based on the initiative while maintaining appropriate governance and documentation.
• Drive implementation readiness. Lead stakeholder communication, cutover preparation, handoff, post-launch stabilization, and lessons-learned activities.

• Connect business priorities with technology delivery. Build trusted relationships across IT, business functions, Finance, Operations, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate difficult trade-off conversations. Help stakeholders reach workable agreements when priorities, resources, or viewpoints differ.
• Improve the operating system for delivery. Strengthen standards, templates, tools, data quality, reporting, and governance practices to increase consistency and efficiency.
• Coach through project leadership. Mentor project leads and team members in planning, risk management, governance, and delivery discipline.
• Promote accountability and outcomes. Encourage proactive communication, continuous improvement, and a focus on…