Job Responsibilities
The Portfolio & Value Manager Supports portfolio governance and value tracking by maintaining portfolio processes, performance reporting, and benefits transparency. Enables informed decision-making by providing consistent data, analysis, and coordination across initiatives, while operating under the direction of the IT project management office (PMO).
- Administer portfolio intake, evaluation, prioritization, reporting, and governance processes in alignment with IT PMO standards.
- Support definition, documentation, and ongoing tracking of initiative benefits and expected value realization.
- Collaborate with initiative owners to validate inputs, identify gaps, and escalate risks or variances that may affect portfolio outcomes.
- Prepare portfolio dashboards and reports covering initiative status, milestones, spend, risks, dependencies, capacity, demand, and value metrics.
- Coordinate governance activities such as stage gates, portfolio reviews, approvals, change tracking, and documentation reviews.
- Maintain portfolio artifacts, including demand lists, scoring inputs, funding views, status reports, risk registers, dependency views, and value tracking data.
- Highlight trends, variances, and emerging issues to IT PMO leadership to support timely decisions and corrective actions.
- Maintain portfolio-level views of demand, capacity, and cross-initiative dependencies to support sequencing and resource planning.
- Serve as a day-to-day IT PMO coordination point for initiative owners, program managers, and functional partners.
- Reinforce adoption of IT PMO tools, templates, cadences, and ways of working through guidance, follow-up, and consistent communication.
Qualifications
- 4 to 6 years of experience supporting portfolio management, program management, PMO operations, business transformation, or related governance functions.
- Bachelor’s degree in IT or Business related major preferred
- Excellent with Microsoft Office Suite including CoPilot, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, Planner, and Visio
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to consolidate data, identify trends, and translate information into actionable insights.
- Experience preparing dashboards, executive reporting, status summaries, or portfolio performance materials.
- Ability to coordinate across multiple initiatives, stakeholders, and functional teams in a structured and disciplined manner.
- Familiarity with project governance, benefits tracking, risk management, dependency management, and change control practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly to both business and technical audiences.
- Knowledge of portfolio prioritization methods, benefits realization frameworks, or value management practices
- Ability to prioritize work based on urgency with minimal supervision
- Minimal travel (0% to 10%) required
Koppers Inc. and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other category or characteristic protected by federal law, state or local law.
Skills Required
- 4 to 6 years of experience supporting portfolio management, program management, PMO operations, business transformation, or related governance functions.
- Bachelor's degree in IT or a business-related major.
- Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Copilot, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, Planner, and Visio.
- Strong analytical skills, including data consolidation, trend identification, and translation of information into actionable insights.
- Experience preparing dashboards, executive reporting, status summaries, or portfolio performance materials.
- Ability to coordinate across multiple initiatives, stakeholders, and functional teams in a structured and disciplined manner.
- Familiarity with project governance, benefits tracking, risk management, dependency management, and change control practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for business and technical audiences.
- Knowledge of portfolio prioritization methods, benefits realization frameworks, or value management practices.
- Ability to prioritize work based on urgency with minimal supervision.
What We Do
Koppers, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a global wood preservation technology company that creates safe and environmentally responsible solutions to solve our customer’s most important challenges. Our products and services are used in a variety of niche applications in a diverse range of end-markets including railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber and construction industries. With more than 2,100 employees, we maintain a global manufacturing and distribution network, with facilities in North America, South America, Australasia, China and Europe. Koppers is committed to living a culture of Zero Harm that places the care of our people, our environment and our communities first at all times. The company is also a member of the American Chemistry Council and dedicated to adopting its Responsible Care® initiative at all of our locations worldwide.
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