Grade Level (for internal use):
13The Director, Analytical Portfolio Delivery is a senior leadership role accountable for end‑to‑end portfolio‑level governance and execution oversight, ensuring complex analytical initiatives are planned, coordinated, and delivered predictably.
Operating at the intersection of portfolio delivery, execution orchestration, and enterprise governance, the Director translates strategic priorities into coordinated execution plans and ensures delivery occurs with speed, predictability, transparency, and controlled risk. In partnership with other Analytical Portfolio leaders, this role serves as the accountable delivery leader for analytical initiatives, integrating execution flow, dependency management, governance, and decision‑ready transparency.
The role supports value realization by ensuring delivery is executable, predictable, and de‑risked.
Analytical Delivery and Execution Ownership: Own and optimize end‑to‑end analytical execution flow, predictability, throughput, and execution health, in alignment with enterprise delivery standards and governance expectations.
Execution Planning and Orchestration: Translate strategic priorities into executable delivery roadmaps and provide execution‑level oversight to ensure plans remain realistic, integrated, and adaptable across teams, systems, and timelines.
Dependency, Risk and Constraint Management: Orchestrate cross‑initiative and cross‑system dependencies, proactively identifying execution risks, constraints, and trade‑offs, and coordinating mitigation, escalation, and resolution to enable timely decision‑making by accountable leaders.
Governance, Transparency and Decision Enablement: Implement and maintain integrated delivery governance spanning portfolio oversight and program execution. Provide decision‑ready transparency into delivery progress, risks, dependencies, forecasts, and metrics, including traceability between execution progress and intended business outcomes.
Value Realization Enablement: Support value realization through transparent execution, ensuring initiatives are delivered with clear value hypotheses and outcome definitions established by business and product stakeholders, and monitoring progress to surface deviations requiring corrective action.
Continuous Improvement and Standards: Establish, standardize, and continuously improve analytical portfolio delivery practices, workflows, governance, and reporting frameworks to improve scalability, execution quality, speed, and risk management.
AI+ Enablement for Delivery: Apply AI+ capabilities to enhance execution forecasting, dependency analysis, risk identification, and reporting automation. Validate and interpret AI‑generated insights to improve executive decision‑making and reduce operational overhead.
Cross‑Functional Leadership: Act as a connective delivery leader across technology, data, product, portfolio, and business teams. Influence outcomes through structured decision support and portfolio‑level leadership, ensuring coordinated execution and alignment across multiple areas.
What We’re Looking For:
Proven experience leading complex analytical or data‑driven initiatives spanning multiple teams, systems, or portfolios.
Strong background in delivery governance, execution orchestration, dependency management, and operational risk mitigation.
Demonstrated ability to operate at a portfolio and enterprise level, integrating strategy, execution, and governance.
Strong data and AI+ literacy, with the ability to understand and apply AI/ML concepts to portfolio delivery management.
Demonstrated systems‑thinking capability, with the ability to analyze complex delivery environments and identify interdependencies.
Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely to stakeholders at all levels.
About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.
S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.
For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings
What’s In It For You?
Our Mission:
Advancing Essential Intelligence.
Our People:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
Benefits:
We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include:
Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries
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