Lead, Digital Program Management

Lead, Digital Portfolio Management

Location: Houston, TX

Work Model: Hybrid

Travel: This role requires minimal travel and involves primarily standard office-based work.

About The Opportunity

Our client is seeking a Digital Portfolio Management Lead to help drive execution, governance, and operational excellence across a growing organization. This role serves as strategic partner to leadership, ensuring technology investments are aligned to business priorities and executed with discipline, transparency, and measurable value. The successful candidate will help establish and maintain the processes, reporting structures, and operating rhythms required to effectively manage a complex portfolio of digital products, technology initiatives, and enterprise transformation efforts.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Vice President, Digital Technology, the Digital Portfolio Management Lead is responsible for coordinating portfolio governance, supporting investment planning, overseeing financial management activities, and driving execution discipline across the Digital Technology organization. This individual will work closely with Digital Products, Digital Operations, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to improve delivery outcomes while ensuring governance processes remain practical and value-driven.

Essential Responsibilities

Portfolio Governance & Execution

• Coordinate and manage Digital PMO processes across the Digital Technology portfolio
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks, delivery standards, and management disciplines
• Drive consistency in project reporting, portfolio reviews, and executive decision-making processes
• Monitor initiative progress, milestones, dependencies, and delivery performance
• Identify execution risks, resource constraints, and delivery challenges early and facilitate resolution
  
  

Portfolio Planning & Prioritization

• Partner with leadership to support portfolio prioritization and investment decision-making
• Facilitate portfolio planning activities, roadmap reviews, resource allocation, and capacity planning
• Support annual planning, strategic initiatives, and portfolio optimization efforts
  
  

Financial Management & Operational Oversight

• Support Digital Technology budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning activities
• Monitor portfolio expenditures, vendor spending, and budget performance
• Assist in development of financial reporting, investment tracking, and cost management processes
• Partner with Finance and leadership to improve transparency around technology investments
• Support vendor management, including contract coordination, renewals, and performance
  
  

Executive Reporting & Communications

• Develop executive-level reporting and portfolio dashboards
• Provide visibility into portfolio health, status, risks, dependencies, resource utilization, and ROI
• Prepare leadership presentations, board materials, and strategic updates
• Coordinate recurring executive communications, including Executive Leadership Team updates, portfolio reviews, PMO communications, newsletters, and critical initiative updates
  
  

Delivery Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Provide guidance and support to Technical Product Managers and project teams
• Promote effective stakeholder engagement, governance, and execution methodologies
• Identify opportunities to improve portfolio management processes, reporting, and effectiveness
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement
  
  

Supervision & Professional Development

• Reports directly to the Vice President, Digital Technology
• Works closely with Digital leadership, Product Managers, Technology, Finance, and business stakeholders
• Opportunity to influence enterprise technology investment decisions and strategic priorities
• Exposure to leadership, digital transformation, and enterprise technology strategy
  
  

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, or related discipline
  
  

Experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT Project Management, Program Management, Portfolio Management, PMO Leadership, Digital Transformation, and / or Technology Operations
• Experience managing enterprise project portfolios and governance processes required
• Experience supporting executive-level reporting and strategic planning activities required
• Experience managing budgets, vendor relationships, and financial controls within a technology organization preferred
• Experience supporting digital product, technology, or transformation initiatives preferred
  
  

Domain Knowledge

• Strong understanding of project, program, and portfolio management principles
• Knowledge of digital product delivery, technology operations, and enterprise technology
• Understanding of budgeting, forecasting, investment planning, and financial governance
• Familiarity with Agile, PMI, hybrid delivery frameworks, and portfolio management methodologies
• Knowledge of technology governance, resource planning, and organizational change initiatives
  
  

Skills & Competencies

• Exceptional organizational and program management skills
• Strong executive communication and presentation capabilities
• Strong financial and analytical acumen
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and evolving environments
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking capabilities
• Ability to balance strategic priorities with operational execution
• High degree of ownership, accountability, and initiative
  
  

If you are a technology portfolio leader who enjoys bringing clarity, accountability, and discipline to complex digital organizations, connect with us at recruiting@novasolutions.ai to learn more.