Vice President, Portfolio Governance & Delivery

Job Summary:

The Vice President, Portfolio Governance & Delivery Leader is responsible for establishing and driving the enterprise portfolio governance and project delivery functions, connecting strategy, disciplined investment decision making and project execution to measurable business outcomes. This role shapes how initiatives are evaluated, prioritized, funded, and delivered across the enterprise, with a strong focus on financial discipline, organizational capacity, and value realization. The role brings structure, clarity and simplicity to complex decisions, ensuring governance and delivery practices are practical, consistent, and embedded in how the business operates. Success in this role depends on designing and implementing portfolio governance and evolving project delivery processes that translate strategic intent into sustained business value, measurable outcomes, and improved organizational performance.

At Global Partners, business starts with people. Since 1933, we’ve believed in taking care of our customers, our guests, our communities, and each other—and that belief continues to guide us.

The Global Spirit is how we work to fuel that long term commitment to success. As a Fortune 500 company with 90+ years of experience, we’re proud to fuel communities—responsibly and sustainably. We show up every day with grit, passion, and purpose—anticipating needs, building lasting relationships, and creating shared value.

Job Description:

- Designs and Leads the Enterprise Portfolio Governance & Delivery Functions: Designs and leads the enterprise’s portfolio governance and delivery ecosystem with accountability for both the process for how work is chosen and how work gets delivered. Sets the strategic direction and establishes a clear, practical framework for portfolio governance and project delivery, ensuring that it aligns to long-term strategic priorities, resource capacity, and investment planning. Leads the design and stand-up of the company’s Portfolio Management (collection of company investments, projects, and activities) capability and guides the evolution of the Project Delivery Office into a strategic, enterprise-grade function. Defines and sets clear expectations for portfolio and project governance, delivery standards, evaluation criteria and value tracking that span the full lifecycle- from idea intake through value realization and that are easy to use, practical, and embedded in how the business operates. Stays current on industry trends and emerging practices, identifying opportunities to strengthen how the organization plans, prioritizes, and delivers investments.

- Develops the Strategic Growth and Maturity Plan for Portfolio Governance & Delivery Functions: Creates and executes a strategic roadmap for the evolution of the Portfolio Management and Project Delivery disciplines, ensuring both functions mature in capability, sophistication, and value. Builds and develops talent across both functions, ensuring leaders have the skills and competencies to support enterprise strategy. Continuously assesses best practices, digital tools, and automation opportunities to improve performance and enable scalability. Benchmarks performance against peer organizations to shape long-term capability growth and enterprise readiness.Responsible for setting criteria and working with Technology Team to determine technology solutions for Portfolio and Project Management. Fosters support and buy-in from team and business leaders.

- Facilitates Enterprise Intake, Evaluation, Prioritization, and Governance - Develops, Owns and operates an end-to-end demand intake and value-based prioritization process. Owns and leads enterprise portfolio governance forums, synthesizing insights, negotiating tradeoffs across cost, value, risk and capacity and drives funding decisions and prioritization discussions.Works closely with executive leadership to frame decisions clearly, surface risks early, and recommend realistic sequencing of work.Ensures funding and prioritization decisions are informed by data, financial impact, and delivery capacity. Provides enterprise-level recommendations to executive leadership on strategic sequencing.

- Drives Enterprise Project Delivery and Financial Accountability: Oversees enterprise project and program delivery lifecycle, from approval through delivery & value realization. Sets enterprise delivery standards, financial accountability expectations, and performance targets. Determines meeting processes. Evolves processes and frameworks to best support the business and ease meeting loads.Manages and holds delivery leaders accountable, driving financial discipline and accountability for on-time, on-scope, and on-budget delivery while actively supporting them through coaching, issue resolution, and obstacle removal. Directs long-range forecasting for delivery capacity, skills mix, and resource needs to ensure optimal utilization. Defines and determines methodologies, processes and tools that standardize and strengthen delivery performance.

Portfolio Performance, Reporting, and Value Realization: Maintains a holistic, data-driven view of the enterprise portfolio- - what’s working, what’s at risk, and where trade-offs are required. Implements practical dashboards and measurement tools to support executive decision-making. Advises senior executives on portfolio insights to guide investment trade-offs, prioritization, and long-term planning. Leads monthly and quarterly portfolio reviews, connecting investment decisions to realized business outcomes and value. Ensures value realization outcomes inform future investment strategy and enterprise planning.

- Leadership and Team Development:Builds and leads a high-performing, collaborativeteam across Portfolio Management, Program Management, and Project Delivery.Develops senior leaders, ensures succession planning, and drives capability growth across these functions. Coaches leaders and teams with a balance of accountability and support.Steps in when needed to resolve conflicts, unblock teams, and address delivery challenges directly.Fosters a culture of trust, transparency, continuous improvement, and shared ownership for results.Leads with humility, credibility, and a deep respect for the people doing the work.

Additional Job Description:

- Demonstrated ability to shape multi-year enterprise investment and delivery strategies that reflect real organizational capacity, financial constraints, and strategic priorities.

- Strong track record of connecting enterprise strategy to actual investments and delivery outcomes, guiding leaders to make informed trade-offs across cost, value, risk, and timing.

- Deep, hands-on experience leading portfolio governance and/or program delivery, including setting practical standards, helping teams consistently apply them and building organizational capabilities in these disciplines.

- Proven experience building, leading, and scaling high-performing teams, developing senior leaders, mentoring emerging talent, and fostering accountability and collaboration.

- Ability to navigate complex environments and work through complex leadership dynamics, align senior leaders with competing priorities, and resolve conflicts that impact enterprise outcomes.

- Experience advising executives on long-range investment planning, including financial trade-offs, return expectations, and risk implications.

- Strong judgment and analytical skills, using data and structured thinking to guide resource allocation and prioritization decisions.

- Strong understanding of financial models, business cases, and return analysis, with hands-on experience evaluating investment assumptions, expected returns, and ongoing financial performance.

- Ability to anticipate organizational implications of investment choices and long-range capability needs.

- Demonstrated success designing and implementing enterprise portfolio governance structures, including clear decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability.

- Demonstrated success implementing and strengthening enterprise project delivery practices, grounded in what actually works in complex environments.

- Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex portfolio data and delivery issues into clear, actionable insightsfor executive audiences.

- Demonstrated leadership presence and credibility, with the ability to lead and inspire teams, engage effectively with senior leaders, and create confidence through clear communication, sound judgment, and decisive execution.

- Solid understanding of enterprise operations and value drivers, with the ability to connect investments and project outcomes to strategic and operational goals while identifying risks and growth opportunities.

- Practical experience and proficiency with portfolio and project management tools and methodologies.

- Master's Degree Master's Degree preferredCertifications: PMP required; Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or BPM certification preferred; Prosci® or ACMP Change Management certification preferred

Pay Range:

$182,300.00 - $291,500.00

The pay range for this position is outlined above. The final amount offered at the start of employment is determined based on factors including, but not limited to, experience level, knowledge, skills, abilities and geographic location, and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

Our Commitments to You

- Coins! We offer competitive salaries and opportunities for growth. We have an amazing Talent Development Team who create trainings for growth and job development.

- Health & Wellness - Medical, Dental, Visions and Life Insurance. Along with additional wellness support.

- The Road Ahead – We offer 401k and a match component!

- Professional Development - We provide tuition reimbursement; this benefit is offered after 6 months of service.

What to Expect From the Hiring Process

We value passion and potential. Please apply if you’re qualified and interested—we’d love to hear from you.

A member of our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and may connect you with the hiring manager if your experience is a strong match.

Interviews are conducted virtually and in person, depending on the role. We’ll provide more details about next steps if selected to move forward.

Global Partners LP is an equal opportunity employer. We foster a company culture where ideas from all people help us grow, move and thrive. We embrace the diversity of all applicants and do not discriminate against race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. If you have a disability and need an accommodation to apply, please contact our recruiting department at 781-747-9675 or 781-7GP-WORK.

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