Manager, P&A Portfolio Life Cycle Planning

Job Summary

The P&A Portfolio Life Cycle Planning Manager is responsible for leading the execution, governance, and continuous improvement of the global Life Cycle Planning (LCP) process for the Parts & Accessories (P&A) portfolios. This role serves as a central integrator across Product Planning, Finance, Engineering, Commercial, Pricing, Sales, and other Product Development functions to ensure portfolio initiatives are effectively assessed, prioritized, governed, and translated into executable P&A LCP plans. The role combines portfolio planning leadership, project assessment governance, data integrity, pricing management, and planning tools ownership to provide a consistent, fact-based foundation for portfolio decision-making.

Job Responsibilities

Global P&A LCP Execution

• Assist in the execution and governance of the annual global LCP process across all P&A portfolios.
• Coordinate key LCP milestones, deliverables, assessments, scenario development, balancing, and approval activities.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment of portfolio priorities, project timing, resources, financial requirements, and strategic objectives.
• Ensure LCP decisions are translated into clear project plans, charters, timelines, and organizational commitments.
• Identify and proactively manage portfolio risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and decision gaps.
• Drive continuous improvement of the LCP process to increase clarity, efficiency, accountability, and decision quality.

P&A Global Pricing Team Manager

• Lead the P&A Pricing Team and establish clear priorities, objectives, processes, and performance expectations.
• Manage the integration of P&A pricing activities into the broader LCP, financial, commercial, and portfolio planning processes.
• Establish pricing process governance, timelines, inputs, outputs, and cross-functional handoffs.
• Partner with Commercial and Finance to ensure pricing analysis supports portfolio and business decisions.
• Develop and maintain pricing tools, reporting, and analytical capabilities that improve visibility to portfolio performance and pricing opportunities.

Global P&A & Motorcycle Project Assessments

• Own the governance and execution framework for global Motorcycle and P&A project assessments.
• Establish standardized assessment criteria, timelines, inputs, outputs, and decision requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional assessments across Engineering, Finance, Commercial, Supply, and other support organizations.
• Ensure projects are evaluated consistently against strategic alignment, customer opportunity, financial value, resources, timing, complexity, and organizational capacity.
• Facilitate assessment reviews and consolidate findings to support portfolio balancing and prioritization.
• Identify conflicts, gaps, and resource constraints early enough to influence LCP decisions.

Project Data Governance

• Establish and maintain governance standards for project, portfolio, financial, resource, timing, and assessment data used throughout the LCP process.
• Ensure project information is accurate, complete, current, and consistently structured across planning systems and tools.
• Define data ownership, validation requirements, version control, and governance processes.
• Establish a reliable source of truth for portfolio and project information.
• Partner with functional teams to resolve data quality issues and improve the integrity of information used for executive decision-making.
• Develop reporting and controls to identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and process compliance issues. 

Project Tools Management

• Own the strategy, governance, and continuous improvement of tools supporting the global LCP process.
• Manage the development and maintenance of portfolio, project assessment, resource planning, financial, and LCP management tools.
• Ensure tools support standardized processes while providing appropriate flexibility for business and functional requirements.
• Coordinate tool enhancements, user requirements, testing, implementation, and ongoing support.
• Develop dashboards and reporting capabilities that provide leadership with clear visibility into portfolio status, project health, resources, financials, risks, and key decisions.
• Drive adoption and consistent utilization of LCP tools across global teams.

Education Requirements

Education Specifications

Bachelors Degree Preferred

Experience Requirements

This position typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.  In addition, the successful candidate will have demonstrated the following:

• Experience developing product vision, business cases and pricing that leads to successful product growth and profitability
• Strong project management experience
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams
• A proven leader, visionary, with demonstrated ability to execute