Hiring: Director, Portfolio Management Company: National Life Group Location: Addison, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 11:15:49 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : Business Analysis, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Stakeholder Management About the job Required Skills: •Lead and maintain the integrated domain portfolio plan, including committed initiatives, emerging demand, roadmap sequencing, delivery milestones, dependencies, capacity assumptions, deferred work, risks, and decision rationale. •Translate strategic business and technology objectives into short-term executable portfolio priorities, sequencing recommendations, and roadmap plans for the assigned domain. •Serve as a principal advisor to domain technology leadership, business owners, enterprise portfolio partners, and governance forums on portfolio health, prioritization tradeoffs, delivery risk, capacity constraints, and execution feasibility. •Partner with technology domain leadership and business owners to ensure the domain roadmap is executable, transparent, and aligned to enterprise priorities. •Shape and continuously improve portfolio planning, demand management, roadmap transparency, prioritization, and governance practices within the assigned domain. •Provide visibility into work in progress, deferred work, risks, constraints, dependencies, and tradeoffs required when priorities shift. •Maintain roadmap transparency so stakeholders understand sequencing, timing, dependencies, and the impact of portfolio changes. •Lead the process for domain intake and demand management in partnership with business owners and technology domain leadership. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience. •14 or more years of related experience in portfolio management, program management, product-oriented delivery, business strategy, value stream leadership, enterprise transformation, business analysis, or technology-enabled business change within complex environments. •Strong Life and Annuity industry experience with demonstrated expertise in the assigned domain. •Proven ability to translate business and technology strategy into executable portfolio plans, roadmap priorities, sequencing options, prioritization recommendations, and measurable capability improvements. •Demonstrated experience leading complex portfolio planning across business, technology, delivery, operational, supplier, and enterprise stakeholder groups. •Strong experience with intake management, demand shaping, roadmap sequencing, capacity planning, prioritization analysis, tradeoff structuring, dependency management, dynamic reprioritization, and value realization tracking. •Proven ability to serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders by clarifying tradeoffs, surfacing execution constraints, and creating alignment in complex, highly matrixed environments. •Demonstrated ability to influence portfolio practices, governance conversations, roadmap decisions, and prioritization outcomes across departments or business technology domains. •Strong analytical capability with the ability to synthesize portfolio data, capacity information, delivery health, dependency impacts, and value indicators into clear executive-ready recommendations. •Strong systems-thinking capability with the ability to balance domain priorities with enterprise alignment, customer and advisor impact, operational sustainability, and execution feasibility. Compensation: •$127,500 - $187,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!