Senior Program & Portfolio Manager

BPCS, Comprehensive marketing solutions, ltd.

Program and Portfolio Manager optimizing project and portfolio management practices for global customer success at Blueprint Technologies. Establishing governance rhythms and enhancing reporting quality.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeRemote • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $110,000 - $120,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in program and project management, including the development of work-back plans, project schedules, and portfolio reporting. Proficient in facilitating cross-functional collaboration and governance while ensuring accurate communication of progress and risks.

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Program ManagementProject GovernancePortfolio ReportingMicrosoft ExcelPower BI

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Hard Skills

Project ManagementWork-Back PlansMilestonesDependency ViewsRAID ManagementChange ControlAction TrackingDecision TrackingExecutive PresentationsPortfolio Analysis

Soft Skills

FacilitationCommunicationAttention to DetailOrganizational SkillsIndependence

Tools & Technologies

Microsoft ExcelPower BISharePointTeamsDashboarding Platforms

Industry Keywords

Program ManagementProject ManagementPortfolio ManagementBusiness OperationsCross-Functional Environment

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, implement, and manage an end-to-end intake and triage process for program and portfolio requests, including submission channels, required information, routing, prioritization criteria, and backlog visibility.
Facilitate recurring portfolio prioritization discussions with leaders and stakeholders to clarify objectives, confirm scope and ownership, assess capacity, and determine sequencing.
Develop and maintain standardized project-management artifacts, including project charters, success criteria, work-back plans, milestones, RACIs, communication plans, RAID logs, and change-control documentation.
Build and maintain integrated project and portfolio plans covering deliverables, dependencies, critical-path activities, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and mitigation actions.
Provide day-to-day program and project management support to initiative owners, including meeting facilitation, action tracking, decision documentation, stakeholder communication, and follow-up.
Establish and manage governance rhythms, including portfolio reviews, project health reviews, leadership updates, planning checkpoints, and recurring status cadences.
Produce weekly and monthly portfolio reporting that clearly communicates progress against plan, initiative health, milestone performance, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and leadership asks.
Develop leadership-ready scorecards, executive narratives, decision briefs, presentations, and progress updates using consistent definitions and validated information.
Maintain portfolio-level RAID and dependency views, identify emerging trends and cross-functional blockers, and coordinate mitigations and escalation paths.
Support annual and in-year planning by consolidating priorities, aligning timelines, identifying interdependencies, and establishing measurement baselines.
Conduct ad hoc portfolio analysis, including capacity assessments, scenario evaluations, prioritization trade-offs, and decision-support recommendations.
Maintain reporting trackers, dashboards, templates, documentation repositories, and other portfolio-management tools.
Use Excel, dashboarding platforms, collaboration tools, and AI-enabled productivity solutions to accelerate reporting and insight generation while validating outputs and documenting methodologies.
Create and maintain a program-management playbook containing templates, standard operating procedures, governance guidance, definitions, and onboarding resources.
Coach initiative owners and contributors on project-management standards, reporting expectations, and governance practices.
Facilitate retrospectives and recommend improvements to governance, reporting, automation, documentation, and operating rhythms.
Promote consistent terminology, reporting standards, and documentation practices across initiatives and stakeholder groups.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Five or more years of experience in program management, project management, portfolio management, business operations, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives in a complex, cross-functional environment.
Experience developing and maintaining work-back plans, project schedules, milestones, deliverables, critical paths, and dependency views.
Strong knowledge of project governance, RAID management, change control, action tracking, decision tracking, and escalation management.
At least three years of experience developing portfolio reporting, executive communications, leadership presentations, scorecards, or narrative status updates.
Ability to consolidate information across multiple workstreams and translate it into clear progress updates, risks, trade-offs, decisions, and recommended actions.
Strong hands-on proficiency with Microsoft Excel or a comparable spreadsheet and analysis application.
Experience using Power BI or another business-intelligence and dashboarding platform.
Experience using SharePoint, Teams, or comparable collaboration and document-management platforms.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, organize ambiguous work, establish operating structure, and drive follow-through without direct authority.
Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive-presentation skills.
High attention to detail and a demonstrated ability to ensure that reports, metrics, and leadership communications are accurate and consistent.
Experience partnering with senior leaders, initiative owners, technical teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Ability to identify risks and blockers early, coordinate resolution across teams, and escalate issues with clear context and recommendations.
Ability to manage competing priorities and facilitate alignment around scope, sequencing, ownership, and resource trade-offs.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account
401k program
Competitive PTO offerings
Parental Leave
Opportunities for professional growth and development