Sr. Manager, Portfolio Management

Key Responsibilities: 

Portfolio Financial Operations & Governance 

• Monitor portfolio budgets, forecasts, and actuals to ensure financial accountability and transparency. 

• Partner with Finance and Value Stream Leaders to track value realization and cost-benefit performance. 

• Partner with Finance and Value Stream Leaders to provide quarterly investment reports, trend analysis, and funding adjustment recommendations. 

• Support governance cadences and facilitate preparation of review packages and executive updates. 

Agile Delivery Metrics & Reporting 

• Define and maintain portfolio-level delivery metrics (e.g., throughput, cycle time, feature delivery rate). 

• Drive consistent use of agile metrics across value streams to monitor performance and enable data-driven decision-making. 

• Consolidate and visualize portfolio performance in dashboards and reports to inform executive and product leadership. 

Agile Practice Enablement & Continuous Improvement 

• Promote disciplined agile practices by partnering with Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Product Managers, and Scrum Masters to ensure consistency and maturity. 

• Serve as a thought partner in optimizing estimation, backlog hygiene, velocity tracking, and team-level reporting. 

• Facilitate workshops or retrospectives to reflect on outcomes and identify improvement opportunities. 

Cross-Functional Partnership 

• Collaborate with Portfolio Managers, Product Management, Architecture, and Engineering to align scope, funding, and capacity. 

• Elevate risks related to delivery delays, budget gaps, or misaligned priorities and propose mitigation strategies. 

• Act as a liaison between delivery teams and senior leaders to drive transparency, accountability, and executional discipline. 

Qualifications: 

• 5-7+ years of experience in portfolio or program management, finance operations, or agile delivery roles. 

• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and SAFe methodologies; SAFe certification a plus. 

• Demonstrated experience analyzing and reporting financials, delivery metrics, and performance trends. 

• Proficiency with tools such as Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, or Planview. 

• Excellent organizational, facilitation, and communication skills with a strong attention to detail. 

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree in business, technology, or related field preferred. 

Preferred Attributes: 

• Experience in the insurance or financial services industry. 

• Skilled at bridging finance and delivery to drive strategic outcomes. 

• Able to synthesize large data sets into clear, actionable insights for executives and delivery teams. 

Who we are: 

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world. 

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better 

We enjoy the everyday | We think further 

What’s in it for you: 

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.  

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life.  

• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.  

• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.   

Are you ready to play your part? 

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you. 

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Markel is aware of employment-related scams where scammers will impersonate recruiters by sending fake job offers to those actively seeking employment in order to steal personal information. Frequently, the scammer will reach out to individuals who have posted their resume online. These "job offers" include convincing offer letters and frequently ask for confidential personal information. Therefore, for your safety, please note that: 

• All legitimate job postings with Markel will be posted on Markel Careers. No other URL should be trusted for job postings.

• All legitimate communications with Markel recruiters will come from Markel.com email addresses. 

We would also ask that you please report any job employment scams related to Markel to rarecruiting@markel.com. 

Markel is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic. This includes race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information, sickle cell trait, or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, or family responsibilities; military or veteran status, including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance, height, or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non-work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law.  

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