AI Portfolio Manager

Job Description Summary

The AI Portfolio Manager serves as the operational leader responsible for driving execution excellence across the Wind Engineering AI transformation portfolio.

Reporting to the AI Process Transformation Leader, this role ensures AI initiatives progress efficiently from concept through deployment by establishing portfolio transparency, execution rigor, risk mitigation, stakeholder alignment, operational rhythms, and performance reporting.

The AI Portfolio Manager partners closely with AI Architects, portfolio stakeholders, Digital teams, ARC Foundry and executive stakeholders to ensure strategic priorities are translated into measurable execution and business outcomes.

• Maintain visibility across all approved AI initiatives.

• Monitor progress against commitments, milestones, deliverables, and success metrics.

• Ensure initiative ownersremainaligned to agreed execution plans.

• Proactivelyidentifyexecution risks, delays, and resource constraints.

• Escalate issues requiring leadership intervention.

• Develop consistent project health and portfolio status reporting.

• Maintain the master portfolio of AI initiatives.

• Track initiatives through relevant lifecycle stages, including opportunity identification, assessment, business case development, proof of concept, pilot, production deployment, scaling, and sustainment.

• Ensure governance requirements are completed at appropriate maturity gates.

• Coordinate portfolio reviews.

• Support prioritization activities led by the AI Process Transformation Lead.

• Maintain portfolio documentation, scorecards, and reporting assets.

• Build andmaintainportfolio dashboards and executive reporting mechanisms.

• Create standardized project tracking and performance measurement processes.

• Define portfolio health indicators and key performance measures.

• Provide leaders with visibility into initiative health, resource capacity, risks, dependencies, value realization progress, andadoptionmetrics.

• Enable data-driven portfolioresolutionsand transparent leadership reviews.

• Coordinate execution across Engineering, Digital, ARC Foundry, and business stakeholders.

• Manage dependencies across initiatives and functional teams.

• Facilitate alignment when initiatives span multiple engineering domains.

• Identify and resolveexecutionbottlenecks.

• Support resource planning and workload balancing across the portfolio.

• Apply Lean and continuous improvement principles to AI portfolio operations.

• Develop standard work for portfolio management activities.

• Improve the efficiency of intake, governance, reporting, and delivery processes.

• Reduce unnecessary complexity whilemaintainingappropriateguardrails.

• Build repeatable execution frameworks that canscale with portfolio growth.

• Drive Kaizen activities focused on execution effectiveness andsupervisionvisibility.

• Support the decomposition of strategicobjectivesinto executable work streams.

• Help define milestones, deliverables, ownership structures, and success measures.

• Partner with initiative owners to create realistic execution plans.

• Ensure approved AI initiativesmaintainmomentum through implementation.

• Align portfolio execution activities with broader Wind Engineering transformation objectives.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, ora related technical discipline.

• Minimum 5yearsmanaging projects,programsor operational experience.

• Significant experience managing complex programs, portfolios, or PMOs within a large, matrixed organization.

• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent work streams, prioritize deliverables, and drive projects through full lifecycle stages.

• Demonstrated success infacilitatingalignment and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.

• Experience supporting AI, software, or digital transformation portfolios within engineering, industrial, manufacturing, or energy sectors.

• A demonstrated track recordof…