Portfolio Manager - Project Manager @ Birlasoft

Portfolio Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of programs and projects from initiation to hypercare closure, with clear accountability for outcomes, timelines, and quality.


• Drive a structured champion and challenger model with all delivery teams and partners, challenging status quo constructively based on data.


• Set up and run portfolio governance: cadence, dashboards, risk and issue reviews, decision logs, and escalation routines.


• Ensure strict adherence to agreed SLAs, including response times, turnaround on actions, and closure of open items.


• Coordinate across project managers, architects, functional leads, and business stakeholders to remove roadblocks and align priorities.


• Standardize reporting formats, templates, and executive summaries so that updates are concise, precise, and decision ready.


• Ensure that risks, issues, and dependencies are logged correctly, updated regularly, and escalated in a timely and constructive way.


• Monitor portfolio level financials and effort utilization and highlight variances early with a clear recovery plan.


• Promote strong delivery discipline across discovery, build, testing, deployment, and hypercare phases.


• Coach project managers and leads on communication quality, stakeholder management, and consistency of execution.


• Champion use of standard tools for tracking scope, milestones, allocations, risks, and decisions and reduce unnecessary manual trackers.


• Act as the single throat to choke and single hand to shake for senior stakeholders for the entire portfolio.

• management fundamentals: scope, schedule, risk, issue, dependency management, and change control.