Job Description
The Enterprise Portfolio & Program Management Manager is a senior, people leading role responsible for driving strategic alignment, execution discipline, and measurable business outcomes across a portfolio of enterprise initiatives that enable and transform the Sales organization.
This role partners closely with Sales leadership to translate Sales strategy and priorities into a well sequenced, capacity aligned portfolio of programs and projects. The leader owns the end to end portfolio lifecycle, including intake and prioritization through delivery and benefits realization, while providing executives with clear visibility into progress, risks, and tradeoffs.
The role is empowered to make portfolio level decisions, influence outcomes across functions, and build a high performing program and project management organization that helps Sales move faster, smarter, and with greater confidence.

Sales Portfolio Strategy & Alignment

• Drive strategic alignment across Sales initiatives, ensuring the portfolio advances enterprise and Sales goals such as growth, efficiency, scalability, and customer impact.
• Partner with Sales leadership to translate strategy into execution, shaping what gets done, when, and why.
• Own and enforce intake, prioritization, and sequencing discipline for Sales-aligned initiatives.
• Maintain the Sales portfolio roadmap and long-range plan, balancing near-term execution with longer-term strategic investments.
• Ensure benefits realization is defined, tracked, and realized across the Sales portfolio

Executive Decision Support & Risk Management

• Provide decision-ready visibility to Sales and enterprise executives, including status, risks, dependencies, capacity constraints, and recommended actions.
• Operate with autonomy to make portfolio-level decisions without routine escalation.
• Identify systemic risks impacting Sales initiatives and proactively remove enterprise-level blockers.
• Build and maintain strong cross-functional credibility and trust with partners across Technology, Operations, Product, Finance, and other enabling teams.

Program & Execution Leadership

• Lead a portfolio of complex, cross-functional programs and projects critical to Sales performance and transformation.
• Drive achievement of enterprise-level success factors, including outcomes, quality, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.
• Lead and facilitate Sales portfolio and program steering committees, setting agendas, guiding discussions, and driving decisions.

People Leadership & Org Effectiveness

• Serve as a people leader, directly managing Program Managers and overseeing Project Managers through a structured operating model.
• Assign work based on capability and experience; monitor progress and provide hands-on coaching and guidance.
• Set clear performance expectations and develop talent, raising the maturity, confidence, and effectiveness of the Sales-aligned PM organization.
• Build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and outcome-focused execution.

Process Improvement & Capability Building

• Demonstrate mastery of portfolio, program, and project management best practices, while adapting processes to meet the pace and complexity of Sales.
• Identify and spearhead process improvements that improve speed to market, decision clarity, and execution quality.
• Customize solutions to complex, ambiguous challenges involving competing Sales priorities and enterprise dependencies.

Qualifications & Leadership Profile

• Proven experience leading enterprise portfolios or large-scale programs, preferably supporting Sales, revenue, or go-to-market organizations.
• Strong people leadership experience, including coaching and developing managers or senior professionals.
• Demonstrated ability to balance Sales strategy and execution, and to drive decisions in ambiguous environments.
• Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence Sales and enterprise leadership.
• Strong judgment, ownership, and accountability; comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.
• Deep understanding of portfolio, program, and project management disciplines.
• Experience working across Sales, Technology, and Operations

Experience
• 5 + years of experience (Preferred)

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Skills
Effective Written Communication, Employee Supervision, Executive Presence, Executive Presentations, Executive Presenting, Process Improvements, Project Implementations, Project Management Leadership, Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC), Strategic Thinking, Strategy Development, Verbal Communications

Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is 110,000.00 - 181,025.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.