Sr. Manager, Strategic Portfolio Management

What you will do

As Senior Manager, Strategic Portfolio Management, you will have a pivotal role that enables Johnson Controls to achieve its strategic objectives by optimizing portfolio management practices and ensuring effective governance across enterprise-wide initiatives. You will be part of a high-performing team responsible for aligning strategic efforts with business goals, driving continuous improvement, and embedding efficient, consistent practices throughout the organization.

This is a unique opportunity to shape and influence Johnson Controls’ strategic direction ensuring initiatives are prioritized, resourced, and executed in alignment with long-term business outcomes. As a key leader, you will play a critical role in advancing a future-ready portfolio strategy that strengthens organizational agility, enhances cross-functional collaboration, and positions Johnson Controls for sustained success in the building technology industry.

How you will do it

• Alignment and Influence: Lead the Business Unit’s quarterly and annual strategic planning processes to ensure initiatives are prioritized based on strategic alignment to organizational goals
• Strategic Roadmap and Planning: Partner with Workstream Leaders to develop and maintain comprehensive strategic roadmaps that align with company goals, market trends, and stakeholder priorities. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to ensure roadmaps are actionable and measurable
• Investment Governance and Financial Planning: Provide oversight and guidance to Workstream Leaders of the Capital Appropriations Process (CARs). Assists with the annual capital plan process for the region: coordinate training; review schedule; align with Business Unit FP&A on timing; proposed investment level
• Executive Reporting: Partner with SPM Operations to prepare executive-level dashboards that provide a comprehensive view of portfolio performance and operational health metrics
• Actionable Insights: Analyze data to generate actionable insights and strategic recommendations for stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Review: Lead consistent and effective communication with stakeholders to support informed strategic discussions and generate data-driven decisions.
• Value Creation Collaborate with Workstream Leaders to validate the impact and pressure-test the assumptions of the business cases.  Review is performed with a focus on validating that the value will have direct bottom-line results (revenue/hard savings)
• Value Realization: Reviews actual variances to bankable plan to identify initiatives that are underperforming; work with IOs & Workstream Leaders to update forecasts and identify recovery plans for the underperforming initiatives
• Process Improvement and Collaboration: Continuously refine portfolio management processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, transparency, and responsiveness to changing business needs
• Practice Discipline: Work among Strategic Portfolio Managers to share best practices and foster a culture of learning.

What we look for

Required

• Competencies typically acquired through a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and/or accounting or equivalent experience
• 6+ years combined experience in project portfolio management, program management or enterprise-level governance roles
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with diverse teams.
• Strong communication skills for effective interaction with senior cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• The ability to influence and drive change in the organization.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities and a strong commitment to developing others.
• Strategic consulting skills which move beyond adherence to specific analytical tools and methodologies; the ability to “think outside the box,” generate alternative solutions for consideration, and provide comprehensive risk/benefit analysis on those alternatives.
• Project management experience and team leadership ability.

Preferred

• Project or Portfolio management certification encouraged such as PMP, Lean Portfolio Management, PRINCE2
• Experience with Strategic Portfolio Management tools like McKinsey Wave, with the ability to leverage these tools for delivering actionable insights