Portfolio & Technology Manager

Title:

Portfolio & Technology Manager

Location:

Vienna, VA (100% Onsite)

Duration:
Initial 6-month contract

Compensation: $65/hour - $75/hour

Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

Marketing Technology, Portfolio Planning, Technology Enablement, Operational Governance, and Cross-Functional Delivery

We are seeking an experienced Portfolio & Technology Manager to coordinate a portfolio of Marketing Operations and technology initiatives. This role connects business priorities with technology planning and delivery, helping teams prioritize demand, manage dependencies, establish ownership, and achieve measurable business outcomes across platforms and capabilities. The individual will provide portfolio-level planning, governance, and execution oversight across business, product, analytics, technology, and vendor teams.

Responsibilities include maintaining an integrated roadmap, surfacing resource and delivery trade-offs, coordinating technology readiness, and giving leadership clear visibility into progress, risks, decisions, and expected value. The role partners with accountable business and technical owners rather than replacing their decision authority. The ideal candidate combines portfolio discipline, technology fluency, and practical delivery leadership. They can translate complex technical topics into business implications, bring structure to ambiguous work, and align stakeholders around priorities, accountability, and sustainable operating models without being tied to a single platform or implementation.

• Portfolio Strategy, Planning & Delivery
  • Translate business objectives into a coordinated portfolio of technology initiatives, capability improvements, and operational priorities.
  • Maintain an integrated portfolio roadmap showing milestones, sequencing, cross-platform dependencies, and critical delivery commitments.
  • Coordinate demand and capacity discussions across Marketing, Digital, Product, Analytics, Enterprise Technology Services, and vendor teams.
  • Facilitate portfolio reviews and recommend prioritization based on business value, readiness, risk, dependencies, and available resources.
  • Oversee delivery commitments across initiatives, resolve cross-team blockers, and elevate trade-offs that require leadership decisions.
• Governance & Decision Management
  • Maintain a centralized portfolio record covering:
    Priorities and approved decisions, Planning assumptions and constraints, Portfolio and technology risks, Issues and resolution plans, Cross-initiative and platform dependencies, Business outcomes and success measures, Governance requirements and approval status, Actions, accountable owners, and due dates.
  • Document decision rationale, accountable approvers, business impacts, and follow-up commitments.
  • Maintain portfolio RAID logs and escalation pathways, highlighting risks that affect multiple initiatives or shared platforms.
  • Align stakeholders on portfolio objectives, scope boundaries, ownership, and the impact of proposed changes to priorities or commitments.
• Stakeholder & Operating Model Management
  • Map stakeholders and accountable business, platform, technology, and vendor owners across the portfolio.
  • Define roles, responsibilities, decision rights, handoffs, and escalation paths across planning, delivery, and ongoing operations.
  • Identify ownership gaps, overlapping responsibilities, and competing priorities; facilitate agreements with the appropriate decision-makers.
  • Establish repeatable engagement and support practices so teams understand commitments, upcoming changes, and ongoing ownership.
• Technology Delivery & Vendor Coordination
  • Partner with business, technology, and vendor leads to:
    Assess demand, delivery…