Director, Product Portfolio Management
Thomson Reuters · Zug
Job Description
The Portfolio Management team makes sure our product investments and resources go to the most strategic, highest-priority opportunities. Working across the product organization, the team partners with product leaders and informs enterprise investment decisions.
As Director, Product Portfolio Management, you'll bring an objective, portfolio-wide perspective to how we plan, fund, and rationalize our products. You'll partner across Product Management, Product Operations, Product Engineering, Finance, and Strategy to run the core processes that connect strategy to investment decisions and financial outcomes, moving comfortably between the detail of a single business case and the big picture of the entire portfolio.
AI is central to how this team works: the large majority of our analysis and decision-making is AI-assisted, and we expect this role to push that further.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the annual capital planning cycle. Own the end-to-end process for prioritizing product investment, from creation and evolution of guidance and template materials to running and owning the kick-off sessions through ongoing stakeholder reviews and funding decisions and managing in-year funding requests as they arise.
- Drive product profitability and rationalization. Working closely with the Corporate Finance team you will be responsible for analyzing product performance and profitability supporting Portfolio Management recommendations on coverage levels, product sunsets, and the divestiture pipeline across the portfolio.
- Own the master product list and portfolio taxonomy. Maintain a consistent, standardized view of the portfolio, keeping it accurate and connected to reporting and the systems that depend on it and ensuring all stakeholders are kept informed of changes as they happen.
- Track business cases and investment decisions. Keep visibility over business cases throughout the investment and delivery lifecycle, ensuring decisions are well-informed, documented, and followed through.
- Put AI at the center of the work. Use AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesis, and decision support across capital planning, profitability, business case tracking and portfolio reporting and continually raise the bar for how the team applies AI.
- Partner closely with Finance. Work hand in hand with Finance on capital allocation, profitability, and the numbers behind portfolio decisions, keeping investment choices grounded in facts.
- Support resource and people planning. Provide insights to help direct resources to the highest-priority products, so agreed strategies and plans get executed across the portfolio.
- Distill the portfolio story for leadership and investors. Evaluate product roadmaps and turn complex product and financial information into clear insight that informs decisions and supports investor relations.
- Align stakeholders across the organization. Bring alignment across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Strategy, influencing at all levels to make portfolio trade-offs and see them through.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in portfolio management, product management, product strategy, or product operations, ideally within a product, technology, or software organization.
- A strong track record of managing processes and building relationships with cross-functional partners.
- Outstanding organizational and communication skills, including the synthesis and simplification of complex ideas.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent; MBA preferred, particularly one that brings strong financial and commercial grounding.
Skills and behaviors
- Understanding how product, engineering, and design work together, enough to put portfolio and investment decisions in the right context.
- A solid grasp of the Thomson Reuters product portfolio, product strategy and the markets we serve: legal, tax, corporates, and risk & fraud, and the dynamics that shape them.
- Financial acumen, comfortable analyzing profitability and business cases, including ROI, IRR, and NPV, to inform investment trade-offs.
- Fluency with and enthusiasm for AI tools, you actively use AI to accelerate analysis, synthesis, and decision-making.
- Outstanding communication and a collaboration mindset, you synthesize and simplify complex ideas and engage with all stakeholders to support clear and timely communication to senior leadership.
- A strong execution orientation, you lead cross-functional teams and external partners to timely decisions and follow through.
- Critical thinking and sound judgment, you make smart trade-offs and are comfortable challenging assumptions and asking the provocative questions.
- Comfort with ambiguity, you adapt nimbly and help others navigate complex situations.
- Data-driven, you seek out and analyze data, with strong attention to detail and comfort using analytics and BI tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Product management experience; familiarity with the software development lifecycle and how product teams operate is a plus.
- Hands-on financial modeling (building or stress-testing investment and profitability models) is a plus.
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What’s in it For You?
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
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The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
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