Portfolio Delivery Analyst

Portfolio Delivery Analyst - A&F Co.

Portfolio Delivery Analyst - A&F Co.

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Remote

locations

Columbus, Ohio

time type

Full time

posted on

Posted Yesterday

job requisition id

JR104062

Job Description:

We are seeking a Portfolio Delivery Analyst to coordinate portfolio planning, forecasting, reporting, and delivery operations across the Data & Analytics organization.

This role provides the analysis, visibility, and operational support necessary to help leadership make informed decisions regarding demand, capacity, funding, priorities, and delivery commitments. The Portfolio Delivery Analyst serves as a key partner to Product, Data Strategy, Engineering, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and leadership teams by maintaining portfolio information, facilitating portfolio processes, and providing insights that improve transparency, planning accuracy, and delivery effectiveness.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, analytical, proactive, and comfortable working across multiple teams while supporting portfolio planning, reporting, governance, and continuous improvement activities in a fast-paced environment.

What Will You Be Doing?

Portfolio Operations & Reporting

• Coordinate day-to-day portfolio operations across a diverse portfolio of Data & Analytics initiatives.
• Maintain portfolio roadmaps, planning artifacts, milestone tracking, and portfolio reporting.
• Prepare dashboards, reports, and presentations that provide visibility into delivery progress, risks, constraints, and portfolio performance.
• Support portfolio review activities through preparation of governance materials, reporting, and analysis.
• Help ensure portfolio data, metrics, and reporting remain accurate, current, and accessible.

Intake & Demand Management

• Coordinate intake processes and provide analysis to support planning, prioritization, and investment discussions.
• Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to ensure intake requests contain sufficient information to support evaluation and planning.
• Analyze delivery impacts, capacity considerations, dependencies, resource requirements, and delivery risks associated with incoming demand.
• Maintain visibility into incoming requests and support portfolio planning discussions through reporting and analysis.
• Ensure intake processes, documentation, and portfolio records remain consistent and transparent.

Capacity Planning & Resource Forecasting

• Coordinate quarterly and ongoing capacity planning activities across delivery teams.
• Analyze demand versus available capacity to support planning discussions and delivery commitments.
• Develop resource forecasts and maintain workforce planning information for leadership review.
• Prepare planning scenarios and supporting analysis that identify resource constraints, forecast impacts, and planning considerations.
• Partner with Scrum Masters, leadership, and delivery teams to improve planning accuracy and portfolio predictability.
• Support contractor planning, workforce forecasting, and resource continuity activities.

Strategic Initiative Coordination

• Provide portfolio coordination support for strategic initiatives and cross-team efforts.
• Track milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items across participating teams.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications and planning activities associated with major initiatives.
• Prepare status updates, reporting, and supporting materials for leadership review.
• Help maintain visibility into initiative progress, commitments, and potential delivery impacts.

Portfolio Metrics & Delivery Insights

• Monitor throughput trends, work-in-progress (WIP), aging work, blocked work, and delivery flow metrics.
• Analyze delivery data to identify potential bottlenecks, risks, and systemic constraints.
• Maintain forecast accuracy and delivery performance reporting.
• Provide analysis and reporting that support discussions around delivery predictability, planning effectiveness, and portfolio health.
• Develop dashboards and portfolio reporting solutions that enable data-driven decision making.

Cross-Team Dependency Coordination

• Coordinate cross-team dependency tracking and maintain visibility into dependency status and impacts.
• Support dependency identification, documentation, and reporting throughout initiative lifecycles.
• Maintain dependency tracking artifacts and communicate potential impacts to stakeholders.
• Assist teams in monitoring and resolving dependency-related risks.
• Escalate unresolved dependency concerns through established portfolio processes.

Release Readiness Support

• Coordinate portfolio-level release visibility, readiness activities, and stakeholder communications across participating teams.
• Assist with preparation of release readiness reviews and supporting materials.
• Track release milestones, readiness indicators, implementation risks, and key dependencies.
• Ensure release information is collected, documented, and communicated appropriately.
• Support post-release reviews, lessons learned activities, and continuous improvement efforts.

Portfolio Financial Support

• Prepare analysis and reporting to support portfolio budgeting, forecasting, investment planning, and funding discussions.
• Maintain visibility into resource allocations, labor tracking, contractor investments, and portfolio funding information.
• Support annual planning activities through forecasting analysis, reporting, and documentation.
• Prepare financial reporting, forecast updates, variance analysis, and funding summaries.
• Support contractor forecasting, extension planning, and resource tracking activities.
• Maintain portfolio planning and investment documentation.

Portfolio Process Improvement

• Support the development and maintenance of portfolio processes, standards, operating procedures, and governance documentation.
• Identify opportunities to improve portfolio planning, reporting, forecasting, and operational practices.
• Assist with data quality reviews and portfolio administration activities.
• Help standardize reporting approaches, templates, and governance artifacts across teams.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives that improve delivery visibility, operational efficiency, and portfolio scalability.
• Recommend opportunities to reduce administrative overhead and improve portfolio effectiveness.

AI-Enabled Portfolio Operations

• Utilize AI-enabled tools to improve portfolio reporting, planning, forecasting, and analysis.
• Support automation initiatives that reduce manual reporting and administrative effort.
• Assist in developing dashboards, reporting solutions, and portfolio analytics capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through automation, data insights, and emerging technologies.
• Support adoption of AI-enabled capabilities that improve portfolio visibility and decision support.

What Do You Need To Bring?

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in portfolio operations, PMO support, project coordination, delivery operations, business analysis, Agile operations, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting projects, programs, portfolios, or delivery teams across multiple stakeholders and initiatives.
• Experience with capacity planning, forecasting, reporting, operational planning, or portfolio management activities.
• Experience working in Agile environments and partnering with Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, and Engineering teams.
• Experience supporting dependency management, risk tracking, release coordination, and delivery reporting activities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to transform data into meaningful insights.
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and collaboration skills.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Experience preparing dashboards, portfolio reporting, presentations, and leadership materials.
• Advanced knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite, Power BI, and reporting practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Data, Analytics, Technology, Digital, or Enterprise Platform portfolios.
• Experience with portfolio reporting, project coordination, or PMO functions.
• Experience building executive dashboards, forecasting models, and portfolio reporting solutions.
• Experience with Agile planning at scale, including experience with Atlassian products (Jira and Confluence specifically).
• Experience with AI-enabled productivity, reporting, forecasting, or analytics tools.

Personal Attributes

• Highly organized and detail oriented.
• Analytical and data driven.
• Strong problem-solving mindset.
• Effective communicator and collaborator.
• Proactive and self-motivated.
• Adaptable and comfortable working