VP Strategic Intelligence, Growth Planning & Portfolio Management

Job Description

Position Title: VP Strategic Intelligence, Growth Planning & Portfolio Management

Location: 633 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10017

Reports to: Chief Growth Officer

Compensation: $220,000 - $245,000/Yr (based on experience and qualifications)

Position Summary

Reporting to the Chief Growth Officer, the VP Strategic Intelligence, Growth Planning & Portfolio Management leads the enterprise capability responsible for informing growth strategy, directing market and portfolio priorities and ensuring resources are focused on the organization's most strategically important growth opportunities.

The role provides executive leadership across growth intelligence, portfolio strategy, long-range growth planning and investment prioritization. The VP serves as the principal adviser on future growth opportunities, market and competitive developments, portfolio risk and strategic investment choices, while holding the Director accountable for day-to-day delivery of the Strategic Intelligence & Pipeline function.

Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Growth Intelligence & Strategy

Provide executive leadership on future growth opportunities, market developments and strategic growth priorities. Ensure market and pipeline intelligence informs enterprise strategy, long-range planning and executive decision-making.

• Translate Group strategy and growth ambitions into clear intelligence, portfolio and planning priorities.
• Identify long-term growth themes, strategic adjacencies and market-entry opportunities across sectors and geographies.
• Advise the Chief Growth Officer and Executive Leadership Team on emerging market, policy, funding and competitive developments.
• Commission strategic analysis where material evidence gaps could affect growth decisions.
• Ensure insights from the Strategic Intelligence & Pipeline function influence enterprise planning and resource choices.

Portfolio Strategy & Growth Prioritization

Lead the strategic management of the enterprise growth portfolio and ensure investment is focused on opportunities with the strongest mission, strategic and commercial value. Maintain an appropriately balanced portfolio across markets, customers, territories and time horizons.

• Define enterprise portfolio principles, prioritization criteria and must-win governance.
• Oversee portfolio balance, diversification, concentration and future pipeline coverage.
• Review recommendations on major opportunities, market choices and portfolio interventions.
• Challenge unsupported assumptions and ensure decisions reflect risk, capability, return and mission impact.
• Recommend where to invest, accelerate, partner, pause or withdraw.

Growth Planning & Investment Management

Convert growth ambitions into a coherent portfolio, investment and resource plan. Ensure growth choices are financially informed, deliverable and aligned with organizational capacity and risk appetite.

• Lead long-range growth planning in partnership with Finance, Strategy, regional and company leadership.
• Oversee growth assumptions, scenarios and investment requirements.
• Sponsor robust investment cases for strategic markets, capabilities and opportunities.
• Inform partnership, acquisition and market-entry decisions through evidence and portfolio analysis.
• Monitor the deployment and effectiveness of strategic growth investment.

Executive Growth Governance

Provide executive oversight of growth decision-making and ensure portfolio choices are made consistently and transparently. Maintain effective interfaces between strategy, intelligence, pipeline, opportunity management and financial planning.

• Chair or lead strategic portfolio and growth governance forums as delegated by the Chief Growth Officer.
• Approve the design of lead-screening, prioritization and portfolio-governance frameworks.
• Review material opportunity investments, strategic exceptions and portfolio risks.
• Ensure decisions, conditions and accountabilities are clear and followed through.
• Escalate material strategic, financial, capacity or concentration issues.

Strategic Market & Competitive Positioning

Maintain an executive view of market direction, customer and funder priorities, competitive dynamics and disruptive change. Use that perspective to strengthen positioning and identify future growth platforms.

• Review market, commissioner, funder and competitor intelligence across priority areas.
• Assess major external changes and their implications for the Group growth strategy.
• Identify new growth platforms, adjacencies, partnership opportunities and threats.
• Provide executive direction on strategic market-entry and positioning questions.
• Ensure external intelligence is translated into clear choices and action.

Growth Performance & Portfolio Analytics

Ensure executive leadership has clear visibility of portfolio quality, pipeline coverage, growth performance and risk. Use analytics to drive intervention rather than simply report activity.

• Oversee enterprise growth KPIs, portfolio reporting and scenario analysis.
• Assess pipeline coverage and maturity against strategic and financial growth requirements.
• Review conversion, win/loss, recompete and concentration trends.
• Ensure material differences between pipeline and financial planning views are understood.
• Present clear portfolio insights, choices and recommendations to executive stakeholders.

Leadership & Capability Development

Build a high-performing strategic intelligence, growth planning and portfolio-management capability. Set direction for the function while enabling the Director to lead day-to-day delivery and specialist team performance.

• Lead, coach and develop the Director of Strategic Intelligence & Pipeline.
• Set functional outcomes, priorities and performance expectations.
• Sponsor appropriate tools, data, methods and external intelligence resources.
• Build strong enterprise relationships across Growth, Finance, Strategy, Operations, Commercial and Legal.
• Promote constructive challenge, evidence discipline and continuous improvement.

Requirements
Experience & Education

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting
• Significant executive leadership experience in growth strategy, portfolio management, strategic intelligence, business development or corporate planning.
• Experience shaping enterprise growth choices and investment priorities across complex markets, business units or geographies.
• Experience operating within complex, regulated, commissioned or publicly funded environments.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including investment appraisal, risk and resource allocation.
• Proven ability to influence executive teams and translate ambiguity into clear strategic choices.
• Experience leading senior professionals and building new organizational capability.
• Experience in employment, health, education, justice, disability or other human-services markets.
• Experience supporting partnerships, acquisitions, new-market entry or strategic investment decisions.
• Experience with enterprise CRM, BI and portfolio-management tools.
• International or multi-jurisdictional growth experience.

Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge of public procurement, commissioning and contract-based growth models.
• Demonstrable strength in portfolio strategy, market assessment, scenario planning and executive decision support.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision | Life/AD&D & Long-Term Disability | Flexible Spending Account (FSA) | Commuter Benefits | 403(b) | Wellness Program
• May vary by location and business unit.