Senior Principal - Portfolio Manager – RE & Ops

Overview

Run portfolio management for Reliability Engineering & Operations and the Automation Acceleration Hub, aggregating domain demand, sequencing delivery against strategy and capacity, and giving domain leadership a clear view of what is being delivered and when.

What you'll do

• Run portfolio management for Reliability Engineering & Operations and the Automation Acceleration Hub, covering demand, prioritisation, planning and reporting across both domains.
• Aggregate and manage domain demand, structuring it against the central prioritisation criteria of value, risk, capacity, strategic fit and OKR alignment.
• Sequence delivery against strategy, capacity and dependencies, giving domain leadership a clear view of what is being delivered and when.
• Feed the domain portfolio into the enterprise view maintained by the Investment & Portfolio Manager, applying central standards so the data is comparable across domains.
• Consolidate delivery, cost and roadmap information for both domains, working with the domain Tech Finance Manager on the cost picture.
• Coordinate the domain planning cycle to the enterprise timetable, preparing materials and ensuring leaders have what they need to prioritise.
• Facilitate domain portfolio governance, with prioritisation decisions taken by domain and platform leadership.
• Manage cross domain dependencies, resolving what can be resolved locally and escalating what cannot.
• Provide portfolio reporting, forecasting and transparency to domain leadership and into the enterprise portfolio, steering with flow metrics and OKR progress.
• Track benefits and value realisation for domain initiatives, applying the central value framework and supporting the named benefit owners in the domains.
• Ensure operational initiatives as well as change projects remain visible and tracked.
• Use AI tooling to accelerate portfolio analysis, forecasting and reporting.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Information Technology, Project/Programme Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Overall 15 years, typically 6-8 years in portfolio management, programme or project leadership, or planning roles within technology or digital functions.
• Experience running demand management, prioritisation and planning cycles for a domain or business unit.
• Experience consolidating delivery, cost and roadmap information into a single reliable portfolio view.
• Experience managing dependencies across teams and escalating what cannot be resolved locally.
• Experience working to central portfolio standards while operating inside a domain.
• Experience of portfolio practice in an operational environment where run work and change work compete for the same capacity.
• Familiarity with portfolio tooling, flow metrics and AI enabled analytics applied to forecasting and reporting.
• Strong analytical skills, able to structure and compare demand, cost and capacity information across two domains.
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills, able to run planning and governance sessions with senior stakeholders.
• Well organised, able to run concurrent planning cycles to both a domain and an enterprise timetable.
• Ability to challenge incomplete inputs constructively and without formal authority.
• Understanding of operational delivery, so that run work is represented properly alongside change.

Nice to have

• Professional certifications (e.g., Portfolio or Programme Management, Lean Portfolio Management, Agile frameworks, ITIL or service management).

Details

• Location: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower.