About the Role
As a manager - Product Portfolio Strategy Operations, you will make an impact by translating organizational strategy into measurable, repeatable outcomes. You will play a critical role in strengthening execution discipline, enabling data-driven decision-making, and ensuring alignment across leadership, product management, and engineering teams. Acting as a strategic connector, you will help ensure priorities are executed predictably and deliver meaningful business value.
In this role, you will:
Implement strategic frameworks and operating processes that translate high-level vision into actionable business cases, roadmaps, and execution plans. Enable portfolio prioritization and product lifecycle decisions through data-driven insights and analysis. Track and monitor progress of strategic initiatives to ensure predictable delivery and outcomes. Establish governance, reporting, and operating cadences to drive operational accountability. Facilitate alignment across leadership, product management, and engineering teams, proactively identifying and resolving execution bottlenecks. Lead retrospectives to assess whether strategic initiatives delivered intended business value. Design and maintain dashboards and reporting tools to provide leadership visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes. Foster a culture of accountability, agility, and continuous improvement through feedback loops and iterative learning. Identify and implement process improvements that accelerate strategy execution and improve operational effectiveness.
Working Arrangements
We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this position may be remote or hybrid, depending on project and business needs. Regardless of working arrangement, we support a healthy work-life balance through our wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting and may change based on business or client requirements. We will always be clear about role expectations.
Requirements
To be considered for this role, you should have:
A Bachelor's degree in business, strategy, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) 5+ years of experience in product strategy, portfolio management, strategy operations, or execution-focused roles Proven experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving measurable business outcomes Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and organizational skills Demonstrated ability to use data to inform decisions, prioritize work, and influence stakeholders Experience with governance models, strategic frameworks, and performance metrics Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across senior leadership and delivery teams Proficiency with data visualization and reporting tools
These skills will help you stand out, particularly in experience operating in product-led or technology-driven organizations, familiarity with AI-enabled tools applied to strategy, portfolio analysis, or operational decision-making, background in continuous improvement, agile operating models, or transformation initiatives, and strong facilitation skills for leadership and cross-functional alignment forums.
The Cognizant Community
We are a high-caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative, and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world. We don't just dream of a better way - we make it happen. We take care of our people, clients, company, communities, and climate by doing what's right. We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that's right for you.
About Us
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World's Best Employers 2025) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Disclaimer
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government-issued ID during each interview.
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 230 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.
We're driven by a passion to help our clients build stronger, more agile and more innovative businesses.
Cognizant enables global enterprises to address a dual mandate: to make their current operations as efficient and cost-effective as possible and to invest in innovation to unleash new potential across their organizations.
What makes Cognizant unique is our ability to help clients meet both challenges. We help them enhance productivity by ensuring that vital business functions work faster, cheaper and better. And, our ability to conceptualize, architect and implement new and expanded capabilities allows clients to transform legacy models to take their business to the next level.