Strategic Portfolio Manager for Kaiser Permanente

Position Purpose

The Strategic Portfolio Manager (SPM) acts as the strategic owner of the assigned portfolio, providing visibility, insights, and direction to senior leadership. This role expands beyond traditional portfolio management by focusing on enterprise-wide alignment, prioritization frameworks, and strategic portfolio optimization rather than execution oversight alone.

Under the direction of the TMO leadership, the SPM will be responsible for a portfolio of projects approved, funded, and assigned to the TMO for execution. This position will support enterprise portfolio strategy, prioritization, governance, and executive decision‑making across assigned portfolios.

This role ensures that initiatives are aligned with organizational priorities, optimized for value delivery, and balanced against enterprise capacity and constraints.

This is a senior‑level individual contributor role focused on enterprise portfolio strategy and governance, including:

• Ownership of assigned portfolio strategy, prioritization, and alignment to organizational goals
• Oversight and/or direct execution and delivery of projects within a defined portfolio or segment.
• Providing transparency of portfolio health, performance, and investment through executive reporting and dashboards
• Leading portfolio governance forums and facilitating executive decision‑making.
• Driving enterprise visibility into demand, capacity, and resource allocation
• Supporting standardization of intake, prioritization, and portfolio management processes
• Supporting cross‑functional portfolios (clinical, operational, IT, construction, capital initiatives)

SIGNIFICANT RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Establishes and maintains a standardized enterprise portfolio prioritization framework.
• Aligns portfolio initiatives to strategic organizational goals and business priorities.
• Partners with executive leadership to evaluate and prioritize investments.
• Facilitates trade‑off decisions based on value, risk, capacity, and resource constraints.

• Leads portfolio governance structures and decision‑making forums.
• Provides recommendations and insights into executive leadership.
• Ensures consistent intake, evaluation, and approval processes across portfolios.
• Identifies and escalates cross‑portfolio risks, dependencies, and conflicts.

• Develops and delivers enterprise portfolio dashboards and executive reporting.
• Provides visibility into portfolio health, performance, and investment alignment.
• Tracks KPIs and performance metrics, ensuring initiative‑taking course correction.
• Leverages tools (e.g., Service Now dashboards) to enable data‑driven decision‑making.

• Provides enterprise‑level demand and capacity transparency.
• Partners with resource management optimize allocation across initiatives.
• Identifies resource conflicts and drives resolution across competing priorities.
• Balances portfolio demand against available resource capacity.

• Acts as the single point of accountability for assigned portfolio strategy.
• Collaborate with the project managers who are working within their portfolio scope.
• Manages multiple projects under a portfolio to an acceptable level of risk - managing scope, time, cost, quality, and to stakeholder expectations.
• Collaborates across programs, project, operational, and business teams.
• Works closely with senior leadership to align execution with enterprise priorities.
• Supports ongoing maturity of portfolio management capabilities within the TMO.

This position does not provide patient care.

The foregoing description is not intended to be, and should not be construed as, an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature and level of the job.

Requirements - Required and/or Preferred

Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English sufficiently to perform job duties safely and effectively. Bachelor's degree required, preferably in business, healthcare,…