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The Director, IT Portfolio Management collaborates with the business portfolio team to align the IT portfolio and demand. The Director, IT Portfolio Management requires an in-depth understanding of how organization capabilities interrelate across the function or segment.

The Director, IT Portfolio Management – Clinical, Stars & Segment CIO, Specialty serves as a key strategic and operational partner to the VP of Technology, Clinical, Stars & Segment CIO, Specialty. This partner is responsible for driving portfolio alignment, prioritization, and execution across Care Management (CM), Utilization Management (UM), Stars & Clinical Programs, and Specialty initiatives.

This role ensures that technology investments, resource capacity, and delivery plans are aligned to enterprise strategy, regulatory requirements, and business outcomes, while enabling disciplined execution across a complex, multi-domain portfolio. The Director translates strategic priorities into actionable portfolio plans, provides executive-level insights and trade-offs, and ensures transparency on performance, financials, and risk.

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Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Strategy & Alignment

• Partner with the VP to operationalize enterprise technology strategies across CM/UM, Stars, Clinical Programs, and Specialty platforms.
• Translate clinical, regulatory, and segment priorities into prioritized, executable portfolio roadmaps.
• Ensure alignment between portfolio demand, funding, and strategic outcomes in accordance with enterprise IT strategy.

Portfolio Governance & Prioritization

• Lead intake, evaluation, and prioritization of initiatives to ensure value-based sequencing and investment discipline.
• Establish governance processes and forums to drive transparency in scope, cost, value, risk, and dependencies.
• Ensure portfolio investments align with regulatory, clinical quality, and financial performance objectives (e.g., Stars, compliance requirements).

Financial & Capacity Management

• Oversee portfolio financials, including budget planning, forecasting, and variance management, ensuring alignment to approved funding.
• Partner with finance and business leaders to evaluate trade-offs and optimize investment allocation.
• Align resource capacity with portfolio demand to ensure feasible and predictable delivery.

Execution Oversight & Performance Management

• Monitor and report on portfolio performance, ensuring alignment to milestones, outcomes, and value realization.
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate risks, dependencies, and delivery constraints across programs.
• Provide regular updates on portfolio health, risks, issues, and outcomes to executive leadership.
• Ensure execution supports modernization initiatives across CM/UM, Stars, and Specialty platforms.

Cross-Functional Integration

• Act as a central point of coordination across Clinical, Stars, Specialty, and adjacent technology domains (e.g., Claims, Core Admin, Product, Membership).
• Drive alignment across clinical, operational, and technology teams to ensure integrated execution of enterprise initiatives.

Executive Enablement

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the VP, providing data-driven insights, options, and recommendations to support decision-making.
• Develop executive communications, including portfolio summaries, leadership briefings, and board-level materials.
• Enable clarity and speed in decision-making through structured reporting and actionable insights.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive adoption and improvement of portfolio management processes, tools, and data quality.
• Support enterprise operating model evolution, including agile planning and integrated financial/portfolio management practices.
• Promote a culture of data-driven decision-making, accountability, and continuous prioritization.

Strategic Importance to Organization

This role is critical to enabling disciplined execution of enterprise-priority clinical, Stars, and Specialty initiatives, ensuring alignment between strategy, funding, and delivery. By improving portfolio transparency, prioritization, and performance, this role helps drive regulatory compliance, financial outcomes, operational efficiency, and improved member outcomes tied to Stars and clinical programs.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical experience
• 5+ years of leadership experience in portfolio, program,