Job Overview
We are seeking a strategic and detail-oriented Portfolio Product Manager to drive cost effective strategies, enable cross-functional alignment, track performance, and ensure consistency in project execution. This critical role will be responsible for managing reporting, facilitating communication, and enforcing best practices across a portfolio of initiatives that align with our organizational goals. Ideal candidates are skilled in project management, stakeholder engagement, and risk mitigation, with a passion for delivering measurable results.
Key Responsibilities
1. Leads Cost-Effective Strategies
- Develop and manage cost-effective initiatives across the portfolio.
- Collaborate with Product Line Managers (PLMs) and cross-functional teams to drive efficiency and identify cost-efficiencies.
- Ensure achievement of targets and timely execution
2. Drives Reporting and Alignment
- Consolidate and prepare detailed reports on project performance and budget utilization.
- Track and analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for key initiatives.
- Ensure all projects are aligned with broader business objectives and strategic priorities.
3. Facilitates Communication and Risk Management
- Act as the primary liaison between teams and leadership, ensuring seamless communication.
- Identify, monitor, and escalate risks throughout the project lifecycle.
- Develop and oversee mitigation plans to address challenges proactively.
4. Ensures Project Consistency
- Enforce portfolio-wide project management best practices to drive consistently high-quality outcomes.
- Support reporting and updates for senior stakeholders, ensuring transparency across all levels.
- Provide guidance and support to teams on operational execution and strategy alignment.
Required Qualifications
- Proven track record in cost-efficiency initiatives and portfolio management.
- Strong project management skills with experience in risk assessment and mitigation strategies.
- Ability to synthesize data and create actionable insights to inform decision-making.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience working with senior leadership.
- Proficiency in project management tools and reporting platforms.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in e.g. manufacturing, technology industries.
- Knowledge of Lean or Six Sigma principles.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, matrixed environments.
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds.
Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education.
Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world.
The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
