IT Technical Product Manager - Enterprise PPM Platform (Planview)

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced IT Technical Product Manager to own and drive the strategy, administration, and technical delivery of our enterprise Planview platform. This role blends product management, platform administration, and technical delivery to ensure Planview supports portfolio, programme and work-management processes, provides decision-ready reporting, and drives adoption and governance across the organisation. You will own the Planview roadmap, backlog, integrations, and data model, and act as the key link between business stakeholders and the vendor/technical teams to maximise value from the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the Planview product vision, multi-year roadmap and release plan, aligned to enterprise strategy and portfolio governance.
• Translate business outcomes into platform capabilities, prioritised features and technical work.
• Act as primary administrator and product owner for the Planview platform (Enterprise One/PPM modules), covering configuration, security, templates, workflows, custom fields and lifecycle rules.
• Ensure system availability, performance, scheduled upgrades and patching, working with IT/hosting teams and the platform vendor.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog (enhancements, integrations, bug fixes, automations, technical debt) using value-based criteria.
• Work with engineering, integration and vendor teams to deliver changes on time and to specification; manage sprints/releases where applicable.
• Design, manage and validate integrations between the platform and downstream/upstream systems (ERP/finance, HRIS, Agile tools, time tracking, BI/data warehouse, identity systems).
• Oversee API usage, ETL/replication jobs and Middleware to ensure reliable, auditable data exchange.
• Ensure the platform remains a trusted single source of truth for portfolio, financial, capacity and delivery data.
• Collaborate with BI/analytics teams to design executive dashboards, operational reports and ad hoc analytics.
• Define and enforce data standards, naming conventions, required fields, workflows and governance controls.
• Monitor data integrity and usage; lead remediation efforts and continuous improvement to raise data quality and adoption.
• Support audit, compliance and financial reporting requirements related to PPM data.
• Act as the primary point of contact for EPMO, portfolio owners, finance, delivery leads, PMOs, resource managers and business units for platform needs and escalations.
• Drive user adoption through role-based training, enablement materials, release communications and community of practice activities.
• Lead process-to-tool change initiatives and adoption campaigns.
• Manage the relationship with the platform vendor and any integrator partners: contracts, support, roadmaps, escalations and annual renewals.
• Track licensing, usage and cost optimisation opportunities.
• Stay current on platform releases and industry best practice for enterprise PPM and Lean-Agile portfolio management.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5-8+ years' experience owning or supporting enterprise PPM platforms, with demonstrated hands-on ownership of Planview (Enterprise One, Planview PPM or Planview Enterprise) strongly preferred.
• Proven product management or platform ownership experience, including backlog management, user stories, acceptance criteria and release management.
• Technical experience integrating enterprise systems via APIs, ETL processes or middleware; ability to read and validate data mappings.
• Strong understanding of portfolio, programme and resource management concepts (cost/benefit, capacity planning, financials, forecasting).
• Experience creating and maintaining executive-level and operational reporting; familiarity with BI/data warehouse ecosystems.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills in a matrixed environment; experience working with EPMO, finance and IT.
• Demonstrated change management, training and adoption delivery experience.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and ability to drive data quality improvements.
• Degree in business, IT, computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Desirable

• Certifications such as PMP, SAFe, Planview Administrator/Implementer training, or Agile/Scrum.
• Familiarity with SQL, Python or Scripting for data validation.

Interview Process

2-3 stages: an initial 30-minute screen with the Hiring Manager, followed by a 45-minute session with the Hiring Manager and Technical Product Owner.