Information Technology - Portfolio Manager (4732-1)

Manager Notes:

Candidates MUST be fluent in English.

Candidates MUST be self-starter, someone who will problem solve and seek out answers on their own instead of waiting to ask or waiting on direction from others. Seeking someone who can very much work independently and take initiative on projects/take the lead and connect with leadership within the org. Seeking someone who can communicate effectively with Director/VP level and not be afraid to ask questions or offer ideas/suggestions.

Role Overview:

As Kimberly-Clark continues to evolve its enterprise delivery model, the Portfolio & Governance CoE Lead plays a critical role in ensuring that strategic initiatives are prioritized, resourced, and executed with discipline and transparency. This resource drives portfolio-level visibility, facilitates governance forums, and embeds decision-making frameworks that enable speed and accountability. By aligning investment decisions with business objectives and standardizing execution oversight, the CoE Lead empowers teams to deliver measurable value while maintaining control and clarity across the enterprise landscape.

Core Responsibilities:

The Portfolio & Governance CoE Lead is responsible for shaping and sustaining Kimberly-Clark’s portfolio management and governance capabilities. This role oversees the development of portfolio frameworks, prioritization models, and governance processes that ensure strategic alignment and delivery consistency. Acting as both a strategist and facilitator, the CoE Lead partners with business and IT leaders to manage investment decisions, monitor portfolio health, and guide execution standards. Through structured oversight a P nd continuous improvement, this leader enables informed decision-making, optimizes resource allocation, and reinforces enterprise-wide accountability.

Continuous Improvement: Lead the development and continuous improvement of portfolio management standards and tools by researching industry trends, gathering stakeholder input, and piloting new approaches. Regularly assess tool effectiveness and adapt solutions to meet evolving business demands.

Capability Building: Facilitate governance forums and decision-making processes across the portfolio by organizing meetings with executive leadership, preparing strategic review materials, and ensuring transparent communication of portfolio performance, risks, and opportunities.

Financial Transparency: Partner with finance and strategy teams to ensure alignment of investments with business goals, participating in annual and quarterly planning cycles, developing business cases for new initiatives, and tracking the ROI of portfolio projects.

Portfolio Performance Measurement: Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards and performance reports, leveraging advanced analytics and visualization tools to provide timely, actionable insights for stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Demand Intake & Prioritization: Support prioritization and capacity planning across initiatives by coordinating resource allocation, monitoring project status, and identifying bottlenecks or capacity constraints, with recommendations for corrective actions.

Best Practice Development: Drive adoption of portfolio practices across business and IT teams by leading workshops, developing best practice guides, and managing change communications to foster a culture of portfolio excellence.

Key Deliverables / Value Enabled:

Enhanced Clarity and Accessibility: Comprehensive documentation of IT processes, standards, and tools ensures that all stakeholders have clear and accessible information. This reduces confusion and enhances understanding across the organization

Strategic Portfolio Alignment: Ensures all initiatives are aligned with enterprise priorities, enabling the organization to invest in the right work at the right time.

Governance Maturity: Establishes and maintains a scalable governance framework that drives accountability, transparency, and timely decision-making across the portfolio.

Real-Time Portfolio Visibility: Delivers dashboards and reporting that provide leadership with actionable insights into portfolio health, risks, and performance.

Resource Optimization: Improves capacity planning and resource allocation across initiatives, reducing bottlenecks and increasing throughput.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strengthens alignment between business, IT, and finance teams, ensuring shared ownership of portfolio outcomes.

Scalable Portfolio Practices: Enables consistent portfolio execution across departments by standardizing tools, templates, and processes.

Enhanced Compliance: Automated processes can be designed to adhere to regulatory and compliance requirements, ensuring that all activities are performed in accordance with established standards and policies. This reduces the risk of non-compliance and associated penalties.

Required Qualifications:

Portfolio Management Expertise: 10+ years of experience in portfolio management, strategic planning, or governance roles, with a strong understanding of investment prioritization and resource allocation.

Governance Leadership: Proven ability to design and facilitate governance forums, decision-making frameworks, and executive steering committees.

Strategic Alignment: Experience aligning portfolio initiatives with enterprise strategy, ensuring visibility and accountability across the organization.

Analytical & Financial Acumen: Strong analytical skills with experience in budget oversight, financial modeling, and performance reporting.

Stakeholder Engagement: Exceptional ability to engage and influence senior leaders, communicate complex information clearly, and drive alignment across functions.

Tool Proficiency: Expertise in portfolio and governance tools such as TargetProcess,Power BI, Microsoft Project, Planview, or equivalent platforms.

Change Enablement: Experience leading portfolio transformation initiatives and embedding best practices across delivery teams.

Preferred Skills:

Problem Solving / Decision Making: Organized, analytical, and with an extensive attention to detail with a demonstrated ability to identify inefficiencies, assess their magnitude, prioritize for resolution, and apply a new perspective to solve complex problems.

Influencing: Organizationally savvy, with good interpersonal effectiveness, influence, and ability to get things done through both formal and informal means. Develop positive relationships, building support and agreement, with business leaders, enablement teams, and project team members to drive consistent change strategies and approaches.

Navigating Change and Ambiguity: Demonstrates resilience by guiding others in adapting to unknown challenges, limitations, and setbacks. Effectively frames, recognizes, and evaluates underlying assumptions and potential changes, assessing their effects on tasks, the teams, and oneself, even when information is incomplete or unclear.

Customer Value Creation: Proactively identifies, recommends, and implements value-added solutions to strengthen relationships within the organization, providing insights on downstream outcomes, and recommending alternative solutions.

Collaboration: Exceptional ability to collaborate, influence, mobilize, and energize key stakeholders and complex cross-organizational and cross-functional teams to implement creative, innovative, best-in-class solutions.

People & Culture: Knack and passion for tuning into unique cultures, needs, and sentiments of impacted stakeholders. Skilled in active listening and cultivating meaningful feedback loops. Listening with compassion and turning insights into action.

Executive Communication & Writing Skills: Able to distill complex data and details to extract and articulate insights and translate them into audience-appropriate messages. Tunes into the needs of the audience to adjust tone and messaging; building and presenting compelling presentations for executives as well as developing detailed materials for employees.