IT - BRM Portfolio Manager HR
Role Purpose
The IT - BRM Portfolio Manager HR acts as the strategic liaison between HR and IT, ensuring that HR strategies, processes, and initiatives are translated into technology-enabled solutions that deliver measurable business value.
In addition, the role leads and coordinates a small delivery team supporting HR systems, ensuring effective execution of integrations, incident resolution, and IT-side project coordination while maintaining governance, prioritization discipline, and financial oversight.
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Partnership with HR
- Build trusted relationships with HR leadership (HRIS, HRBP, COEs, HR Operations)
- Align HR strategy with IT and digital roadmaps
- Act as a strategic advisor on technology-enabled HR transformation
Demand Governance & Prioritization
- Own end-to-end demand intake process for HR initiatives
- Structure requests into clear business cases with measurable value
- Drive prioritization decisions with HR leadership
- Ensure alignment with enterprise priorities and resource capacity
Integration Delivery & Team Coordination
- Coordinate a small team responsible for delivery of HCM integrations
- Ensure alignment between integration work and enterprise architecture
- Collaborate with integration platforms (e.g., OIC, middleware) teams
- Oversee delivery quality and timelines for integration initiatives
Incident Management & Operational Support
- Oversee resolution of HR-related incidents and service disruptions
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure timely root cause resolution
- Monitor recurring issues and drive continuous improvement actions
Project Coordination
- Coordinate IT-side activities for HR-related projects
- Ensure alignment between business expectations and IT delivery
- Track delivery progress, dependencies, and risks
Portfolio & SPM Management
- Maintain HR portfolio in SPM or equivalent tool
- Ensure projects are updated with status, risks, decisions, and milestones
- Provide visibility and reporting to stakeholders and leadership
Integration Awareness & Cross-System Alignment
- Ensure understanding of HR ecosystem integrations (HR, Finance, Payroll, VMS)
- Assess cross-system impacts of HR initiatives
- Ensure solutions are scalable and aligned with enterprise architecture
Financial Governance
- Collaborate in license estimation for HR systems and platforms
- Support budget estimation and forecasting for HR IT initiatives
- Track cost implications of demand and prioritize accordingly
Ownership & Execution Discipline
- Drive end-to-end ownership of initiatives and deliverables
- Track actions, risks, and dependencies to closure
- Ensure timely communication, follow-ups, and stakeholder engagement
Key Skills & Competencies
- Strong understanding of HR processes (HCM, payroll, talent, benefits)
- Experience with enterprise HR systems (e.g., Oracle HCM)
- Knowledge of integration patterns and middleware platforms
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience managing demand intake, governance, and prioritization
- Ability to lead small teams and coordinate cross-functional delivery
- Understanding of financial concepts related to IT budgets and licensing
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, HR, IT or related field
- 7–12 years of experience in HR systems, IT, BRM, or consulting roles
- Experience in global organizations preferred
- Experience managing or coordinating small teams
- Certifications such as BRMP, ITIL, or PMP are a plus
KPIs / Measures of Success
- Effectiveness of demand prioritization and governance
- On-time delivery of integration and project initiatives
- Reduction in incident resolution time and recurring issues
- Accuracy and timeliness of Projects updates (status, risks, decisions)
- Stakeholder satisfaction (HR and IT leadership)
- Alignment of HR initiatives with enterprise architecture
- Accuracy of budget and license estimations
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, HR, IT or related field
- 7-12 years of experience in HR systems, IT, BRM, or consulting roles
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
- Experience with enterprise HR systems (e.g., Oracle HCM)
- Knowledge of integration patterns and middleware platforms (e.g., OIC) and HCM integrations
- Strong understanding of HR processes (HCM, payroll, talent, benefits)
- Experience managing demand intake, governance, and prioritization
- Experience leading or coordinating small delivery teams and cross-functional delivery
- Understanding of IT financial concepts related to budgets and licensing
- Experience in global organizations
- Certifications such as BRMP, ITIL, or PMP
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
What We Do
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
