Senior Portfolio Manager – P&C Portfolio Management Office

USAA

Portfolio Manager Senior managing Function or Line of Business portfolios at USAA. Ensuring compliance, stakeholder alignment, and effective prioritization in project delivery.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeSan Antonio • Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $119,310 - $228,040 per yearWebsite

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Tools & technologies

PMP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for supporting Function or Line of Business portfolios and ensuring compliance with applicable policies, procedures, standards, controls, and regulations.
Partners with Executive Sponsors, business owners and additional stakeholders to ensure alignment to strategic objectives and effective prioritization, planning, budgeting, delivery, and benefits realization of work efforts.
Monitors, governs and is accountable for low to moderately complex Function or Line of Business portfolios.
Completes governance routines per the Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) Policy, Standards and Procedures.
Monitors a low to moderately complex portfolio on an ongoing basis, to resolve issues and disseminate information to stakeholders.
Facilitates the identification, management, and resolution of systemic cross-work risks / issues and interdependency conflicts for work effort(s) / program deliverables and informs portfolio team and stakeholders as needed.
Leverages analytics to research and identify Financial Management risks and recommends solutions to address opportunities; may escalate to their respective Portfolio Management Office (PMO) or leadership team as needed.
Monitors for stale work efforts and need for resolution, including termination proposal if applicable.
Supports development and execution of Function or Line of Business planning in partnership with USAA Integrated Planning (UIP) and their respective PMO.
Monitors and make recommendations to their senior leadership and their respective PMO to ensure portfolio alignment and delivery against strategic priorities as needed.
Communicates portfolio statuses and changes regularly with executive sponsors, program sponsors, business owners, and additional stakeholders as required.
Reviews health and performance of portfolio regularly, monitors portfolio success via recognized methodologies, identifies performance improvement opportunities, providing updates to leader and stakeholders.
Drives the adoption and sustainment of changes within the organization in compliance with USAA's Change Management methodology.
Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of related experience may be substituted in lieu of degree
6 years of progressive project, program, or portfolio management experience
Proficient understanding of project, program, and portfolio management principles
Working knowledge in the full lifecycle experience managing strategic and operational work efforts
Experience with portfolio management and execution experience delivering complex work efforts working with Waterfall and Agile methodologies
Currently possess at least one of the following: Certified Project Manager (CPM), Lean Portfolio Management Certification, Project Management Professional (PMP), or gains one within 6 months of placement
Proficient experience in USAA's change management methodology or similar industry change management methodology.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
401(k)
Pension
Life insurance
Parental benefits
Adoption assistance
Paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
Various wellness programs
Career path planning and continuing education

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Hard Skills & Tools

Project ManagementProgram ManagementPortfolio ManagementRisk ManagementFinancial ManagementGovernanceAnalyticsPerformance ImprovementStrategic PlanningOperational Management

Soft Skills

CommunicationStakeholder ManagementProblem SolvingCollaborationPrioritization

Certifications

Certified Project Manager (CPM)Lean Portfolio Management CertificationProject Management Professional (PMP)