Director, Product Portfolio Management

## Director, Product Portfolio Management Apply:
Hybrid:
United Kingdom, London:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
November 30, 2026 (30+ days left to apply):
JREQ
204526
** Job Description
** The Portfolio Management team makes sure our product investments and resources go to the most strategic, highest-priority opportunities. Working across the product organization, the team partners with product leaders and informs enterprise investment decisions.  As Director, Product Portfolio Management, you'll bring an objective, portfolio-wide perspective to how we plan, fund, and rationalize our products. You'll partner across Product Management, Product Operations, Product Engineering, Finance, and Strategy to run the core processes that connect strategy to investment decisions and financial outcomes, moving comfortably between the detail of a single business case and the big picture of the entire portfolio.  

AI is central to how this team works: the large majority of our analysis and decision-making is AI-assisted, and we expect this role to push that further.  
** Key Responsibilities**
* ** Lead the annual capital planning cycle.
** Own the end-to-end process for prioritizing product investment, from creation and evolution of guidance and template materials to running and owning the kick-off sessions through ongoing stakeholder reviews and funding decisions and managing in-year funding requests as they arise.
* ** Drive product profitability and rationalization.
** Working closely with the Corporate Finance team you will be responsible for analyzing product performance and profitability supporting Portfolio Management recommendations on coverage levels, product sunsets, and the divestiture pipeline across the portfolio.
* ** Own the master product list and portfolio taxonomy.
** Maintain a consistent, standardized view of the portfolio, keeping it accurate and connected to reporting and the systems that depend on it and ensuring all stakeholders are kept informed of changes as they happen.
* ** Track business cases and investment decisions.
** Keep visibility over business cases throughout the investment and delivery lifecycle, ensuring decisions are well-informed, documented, and followed through.
* ** Put AI at the center of the work.
** Use AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesis, and decision support across capital planning, profitability, business case tracking and portfolio reporting and continually raise the bar for how the team applies AI.
* ** Partner closely with Finance.
** Work hand in hand with Finance on capital allocation, profitability, and the numbers behind portfolio decisions, keeping investment choices grounded in facts.
* ** Support resource and people planning.
** Provide insights to help direct resources to the highest-priority products, so agreed strategies and plans get executed across the portfolio.
* ** Distill the portfolio story for leadership and investors.
** Evaluate product roadmaps and turn complex product and financial information into clear insight that informs decisions and supports investor relations.
* ** Align stakeholders across the organization.
** Bring alignment across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Strategy, influencing at all levels to make portfolio trade-offs and see them through.  
** Required Qualifications
*** 8+ years of experience in portfolio management, product management, product strategy, or product operations, ideally within a product, technology, or software organization.
* A strong track record of managing processes and building relationships with cross-functional partners.
* Outstanding organizational and communication skills, including the synthesis and simplification of complex ideas.
* A bachelor's degree or equivalent; MBA preferred, particularly one that brings strong financial and commercial grounding.  
** Skills and behaviors
*** Understanding how product, engineering, and design work together, enough to put portfolio and investment decisions in the right context.
* A solid grasp of the Thomson Reuters product portfolio, product strategy and the markets we serve: legal, tax, corporates, and risk & fraud, and the dynamics that shape them.
* Financial acumen, comfortable analyzing profitability and business cases, including ROI, IRR, and NPV, to inform investment trade-offs.
* Fluency with and enthusiasm for AI tools, you actively use AI to accelerate analysis, synthesis, and decision-making.
* Outstanding communication and a collaboration mindset, you synthesize and…