Senior Manager, Strategic Portfolio Management

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Finance Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Job Title: Senior Manager, Strategic Portfolio Management About the Department The Digital Enterprise Technology (DET) Strategic Portfolio Management team helps Salesforce scale by aligning our strategic investment portfolio with business strategy and optimizing value realization across the enterprise. We provide value-oriented planning processes, quality portfolio-level data for strategic decision making, and amazing customer service to support delivery. We enable DET leaders to envision our future, ruthlessly prioritize, drive collaboration, showcase the value of our work, and guide transformative initiatives. About the Role The Senior Manager, Strategic Portfolio Management aligns company objectives with our portfolio of pillar initiatives, programs, and investments. This role ensures that funding, resources, and execution within DET Pillars are prioritized to deliver maximum business value and drive organization-wide innovation. Acting as a strategic thought partner to Pillar Portfolio Managers, you will help bridge the gap between strategy and delivery through rigorous oversight and performance tracking. A key focus of this role is Process Governance and Excellence, translating abstract concepts into actionable frameworks that streamline portfolio reporting and ensure measurable success. Your Impact - Key Responsibilities Architect and evangelize a unified framework for initiative data management that scales across the portfolio ecosystem. Lead the creation and adoption of foundational playbooks and assets to ensure a seamless, consistent experience for all portfolio teams and stakeholders. Establish comprehensive guardrails and stage-gate processes to maintain portfolio integrity. Implement oversight mechanisms and audit trails that facilitate early risk detection and ensure all investments align with organizational quality standards throughout their lifecycle. Define and govern the master taxonomy and metadata standards for portfolio and operational data. Partner cross-functionally with Pillar Managers and technical teams to identify friction points in current data workflows; co-create streamlined processes that reduce administrative burden while increasing data quality. Act as the primary authority for data integrity, ensuring a reliable Source of Truth that supports high-fidelity reporting and automated insights across the organization. Drive organizational excellence through regular evaluations of portfolio performance and process adherence. Leverage data-driven audits to provide strategic feedback to leadership, identifying opportunities to optimize workflows and enhance overall operational maturity. Support annual and quarterly portfolio planning, prioritization, and rebalancing processes by providing data and feedback for process improvement. Maintain a forward-looking view of the portfolio to anticipate dependencies, resource constraints, and market impacts. Provide executive insights and recommendations to guide strategic trade-offs and capital allocation. Define and manage key portfolio performance indicators (e.g., value realization, time-to-market, resource utilization, risk exposure). Dr ... (truncated, view full listing at source)