What You Will Do
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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). Assist with the annual capital plan process for the region: coordinate training; review schedule; align with Business Unit FP&A on timing; propose 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: Review 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
- 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. xwzovoh
- 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
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