Senior Manager, Data Center Portfolio & Demand Management

Job Details: Job Description: The Role and Impact Intel's Global IT organization is seeking a strategic and results-oriented leader to drive demand management, portfolio governance, and investment planning across Data Center and Infrastructure programs. This role leads a team responsible for evaluating technology demand, prioritizing investments, managing portfolio performance, and ensuring execution aligns with business and technology strategies.   As a senior leader, you will partner across business, engineering, infrastructure, operations, finance, and executive stakeholders to establish governance frameworks, optimize resource allocation, and provide visibility into portfolio health, risks, and outcomes. Success in this role requires strategic thinking, business acumen, strong leadership, and the ability to influence decisions across a complex global organization.   This position offers the opportunity to shape how infrastructure and data center investments are planned, prioritized, governed, and delivered to support Intel's long-term business objectives.   What You’ll Do Key responsibilities will include but not limited to: • Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team responsible for demand management, portfolio governance, strategic planning, and investment prioritization. • Partner with business and technology leaders to evaluate demand, align priorities, and ensure investment decisions support organizational objectives. • Establish and continuously improve portfolio governance frameworks, prioritization processes, and executive decision-making mechanisms. • Oversee portfolio intake, resource planning, prioritization, and execution tracking across data center and infrastructure initiatives. • Provide executive-level reporting, portfolio insights, and actionable recommendations to support strategic business decisions. • Drive visibility into portfolio performance, investment outcomes, resource utilization, risks, dependencies, and capacity constraints. • Facilitate investment trade-off discussions and enable data-driven prioritization across competing business needs. • Build strong partnerships across infrastructure, cloud, engineering, operations, and finance organizations to ensure successful execution of strategic initiatives. • Lead process improvement efforts that increase efficiency, transparency, accountability, and operational excellence. • Foster an inclusive, collaborative culture focused on continuous improvement, innovation, and measurable business impact.   Behavioral traits that we are looking for: • Strategic Mindset : Connects investments, priorities, and resources to long-term business objectives. • Executive Influence : Builds alignment and drives decisions across senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders. • Business Acumen & Prioritization : Translates complex and ambiguous business needs into clear requirements, priorities, decisions, and accountable execution plans. • Executive Communication : Communicates effectively with executives and influences stakeholders across business, technology, facilities, finance, sourcing, and delivery organizations. • Results Orientation : Uses data to prioritize effectively, manage trade-offs, and deliver measurable business outcomes. • Change Leadership : Leads through ambiguity and drives organizational improvement and transformation. • People Leadership : Develops talent, builds inclusive teams, and creates an environment of accountability and growth.   Intel invests in our people and offers a complete and competitive package of benefits employees and their families through every stage of life.  • See  Intel Benefits  for more details.  Qualifications: You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for thi