Posted today
Public Trust
Unspecified
Unspecified
Rosslyn, VA (On-Site/Office)
Executive Strategy & Portfolio Lead - DHMS Executive Operations
Function: Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
Location: Rosslyn, VA - Onsite (5 days per week)
Reports To: Deputy Program Executive Officer (Deputy PEO DHMS)
Position Summary
The Executive Strategy & Portfolio Lead serves as a senior leadership partner within the DHMS Executive Office, supporting executive decision-making, strategic alignment, and portfolio-level execution across a complex enterprise environment.
This role operates within the executive leadership layer and works directly alongside senior government stakeholders to help shape how priorities are defined, how decisions are made, and how execution remains aligned with executive intent. The position functions across organizational boundaries, connecting strategy, governance, and portfolio execution to ensure leadership decisions translate into measurable outcomes.
Success in this role depends heavily on executive presence and communication style. The ideal candidate can enter senior-level conversations, rapidly absorb context, communicate with clarity and confidence, and articulate complex organizational or technical topics with ease.
The ability to ramp quickly, establish credibility early, and contribute meaningfully in senior leadership environments will be a key differentiator.
Key Responsibilities
Governance and Organizational Effectiveness
Function: Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
Location: Rosslyn, VA - Onsite (5 days per week)
Reports To: Deputy Program Executive Officer (Deputy PEO DHMS)
Position Summary
The Executive Strategy & Portfolio Lead serves as a senior leadership partner within the DHMS Executive Office, supporting executive decision-making, strategic alignment, and portfolio-level execution across a complex enterprise environment.
This role operates within the executive leadership layer and works directly alongside senior government stakeholders to help shape how priorities are defined, how decisions are made, and how execution remains aligned with executive intent. The position functions across organizational boundaries, connecting strategy, governance, and portfolio execution to ensure leadership decisions translate into measurable outcomes.
Success in this role depends heavily on executive presence and communication style. The ideal candidate can enter senior-level conversations, rapidly absorb context, communicate with clarity and confidence, and articulate complex organizational or technical topics with ease.
The ability to ramp quickly, establish credibility early, and contribute meaningfully in senior leadership environments will be a key differentiator.
Key Responsibilities
Governance and Organizational Effectiveness
- Support efforts to refresh and improve governance processes, including how strategic decisions are made and escalated
- Assist leaders in clarifying roles, responsibilities, and decision ownership across portfolio and product environments
- Support organizational design adjustments and help ensure new structures are adopted operationally
- Help redesign executive meetings to focus on cost, schedule, performance, and outcomes, rather than status reporting
- Develop clear meeting agendas, pre-read materials, and decision summaries
- Capture decisions, action items, owners, and deadlines to ensure follow-through
- Lead (as directed) key strategic initiatives designed to elevate performance across both the client organization and the internal team
- Contribute experience, expertise, and sound judgment to leadership discussions and planning sessions
- Proactively share insights that improve decision-making and execution
- Support organization and prioritization of product and capability portfolios
- Help leadership understand tradeoffs across priorities, funding, resource capacity, and execution risk
- Translate leadership decisions into clear operational guidance for execution teams
- Support daily operations of the DHMS Executive Office and priority initiatives
- Coordinate taskers, leadership requests, and cross-team actions
- Draft and coordinate executive briefings, decision memos, and leadership materials
- Track leadership commitments, dependencies, and risks
- Maintain clear trackers to provide leadership visibility into progress and emerging issues
- Identify execution gaps or delays and help drive resolution
- 5-7 years of experience supporting senior leaders in a Chief of Staff, PMO, executive operations, or governance role
- Experience working in software, product, or portfolio-driven organizations
- Experience operating within large enterprise or government environments supporting senior leadership
- Demonstrated success in executive operations, governance leadership, or strategic execution roles
- Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with senior government stakeholders
- Proven ability to synthesize complex information into concise, leadership-ready messaging
- Ability to rapidly absorb context and operate effectively in seasoned leadership environments
- Strong organizational judgment, professional maturity, and discretion
- Ability to influence across teams without direct authority
- U.S. Citizenship required
- Ability to work onsite in Rosslyn, VA five days per week
- Executive presence and composure in senior leadership environments
- Clear, confident communication style appropriate for executive audiences
- Strong organizational awareness and political intelligence
- Strategic thinking paired with disciplined execution
- Ability to frame issues in terms of decisions, tradeoffs, and outcomes
- High tolerance for ambiguity with strong follow-through
- Prosci Change Management Certification (ADKAR Model)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- Scaled Agile Framework - Lean Portfolio Management (SAFe LPM)
- Experience implementing AI solutions, products, or operational process improvements
group id: 10364617
