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 this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates. Note: For information on Intel’s immigration sponsorship guidelines, please see Intel U.S. Immigration Sponsorship Information Minimum Qualifications and Experience : Bachelor's degree in business, information technology, engineering, operations, or a related field with 7+ years of experience. Your experience described above must be in the following: • Leading demand management, portfolio management, business relationship management, program management, or a comparable enterprise service function. • Experience leading teams, including managers, senior professionals, or cross-functional organizations. • Experience establishing intake, prioritization, governance, and executive reporting processes in a complex global organization. • Program and portfolio management capability, including risk, dependency, resource, schedule, and financial awareness. Preferred Qualifications and Experience : • Experience supporting data centers, infrastructure, cloud, facilities, engineering, or other capital-intensive technology services. • Experience with enterprise portfolio management, IT service management, or strategic portfolio management platforms such as ServiceNow. • Working knowledge of capacity planning, infrastructure delivery, capital planning, and operational handoff processes. • Familiarity with ITIL, portfolio governance, stage-gate controls, and agile or hybrid delivery methods. • Experience operating in a global, matrixed environment with multiple regions, suppliers, and shared service partners. • Build practical governance that improves decisions and transparency without slowing execution. Why Join Intel? Intel is shaping the future of computing, AI, and cloud technologies. This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide technology investments, partner with senior leaders, and lead a high-impact team responsible for driving strategic infrastructure decisions across the company. Job Type: Experienced Hire Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America) Primary Location: US, California, Santa Clara Additional Locations: P