Associate Vice President, Digital Services Portfolio Office

The mission of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is to eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation, and the world through outstanding programs that integrate patient care, research and prevention, and through education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the public.

The Associate Vice President, Digital Services Portfolio Office, is accountable for defining, governing, and optimizing the enterprise digital portfolio to ensure strategic alignment, measurable value realization, and sustained performance improvement. This role provides executive leadership over Product Management, Performance Improvement, and enterprise Digital Literacy and Fluency efforts, ensuring that digital investments are prioritized, executed, adopted, and continuously improved based on data, outcomes, and organizational impact.

The AVP serves as a senior strategic partner to executive leadership, translating business strategy into a cohesive, value-driven digital portfolio while establishing rigorous performance management and digital fluency practices that enable effective adoption and long-term value realization.

Key Functions

Enterprise Digital Services Portfolio Strategy
• Own and evolve the enterprise digital portfolio, including initiative definition, categorization, prioritization, sequencing, and retirement.
• Partner with executive and business leaders to translate organizational strategy into a multi-year digital investment roadmap.
• Establish clear, consistent criteria for evaluating digital initiatives based on strategic alignment, value, risk, complexity, and readiness.
• Ensure appropriate balance across innovation, transformation, and operational optimization initiatives.

Product and Program Leadership
• Provide executive oversight of the Product Management function, ensuring alignment between portfolio strategy and delivery execution.
• Establish and maintain standards for product lifecycle management, program governance, and project execution.
• Ensure delivery models support strategic intent, speed to value, organizational adoption, and sustainability.
• Drive clarity of accountability, roles, and decision rights across product and project teams.

Value Realization, Performance Improvement & Digital Fluency
• Lead a performance improvement function focused on measuring, monitoring, and improving the outcomes of digital investments.
• Define and implement a data-driven KPI framework spanning financial, operational, experience, mission-aligned, and adoption outcomes.
• Establish enterprise-level digital literacy and fluency strategies that enable leaders, managers, and staff to effectively engage with digital products, data, and tools.
• Partner with business leaders to align digital fluency efforts with portfolio priorities, ensuring that capability development supports realization of intended value.
• Monitor adoption, utilization, and proficiency metrics as part of ongoing portfolio performance management.

Portfolio Governance & Demand Shaping
• Lead enterprise digital investment governance forums, enabling transparent, data-informed decision-making.
• Partner with business leaders to shape demand by refining problem statements, clarifying outcomes, and aligning expectations.
• Guide decisions related to funding allocation, capacity constraints, sequencing, and portfolio risk.
• Ensure governance processes enable focus, accountability, and agility rather than administrative overhead.

Leadership & Organizational Impact
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing organization encompassing Product Management, Performance Improvement, and Digital Literacy capabilities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on digital investment strategy, performance, and organizational readiness.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, continuous improvement, and data-informed decision-making.
• Champion modern portfolio, product, performance, and digital fluency practices across the enterprise.

REQUIRED

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in digital strategy, portfolio management, product leadership, enterprise transformation, or management consulting.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, complex digital portfolios with enterprise-wide impact.
• Proven experience leading Product Management and/or PMO functions at scale.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including investment prioritization and value realization.
• Deep experience defining KPIs, performance metrics, and data-driven management approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to design or lead digital literacy, fluency, or capability development initiatives.
• Exceptional executive presence with the ability to influence senior leaders across a matrixed organization.

PREFERRED

• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, higher education, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience in service portfolio design, implementation, and management.
• Experience with modern product, agile, and lean portfolio management practices.
• Experience building or leading performance improvement or operational excellence functions.

Privacy Notice
• As a senior technology leader, you will have exposure and/or access to protected health information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as part of your normal duties. Access to data within systems that contain significant portions of confidential medical records will be necessary to do your job. However, viewing that information in individual detail is generally incidental.
• Regarding HIPAA and related regulations protecting student, staff, and patient privacy, it is the responsibility of each MD Anderson employee to limit viewing of PHI and PII to the absolute minimum as necessary to perform the job function. As a TDI leader, the EDESA will be held to a higher standard and is expected to help lead and support the development and enforcement of relevant security and privacy policies.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center offers excellent benefits , including medical, dental, paid time off , retirement , tuition benefits, educational opportunities, and individual and team recognition.

This position may be responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of critical infrastructure, as defined in Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code and therefore may require routine reviews and screening. The ability to satisfy and maintain all requirements necessary to ensure the continued security and integrity of such infrastructure is a condition of hire and continued employment.

It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state, or local laws unless such distinction is required by law.

Additional Information

• Requisition ID: 179573
• Employment Status: Full-Time
• Employee Status: Regular
• Work Week: Days
• Minimum Salary: US Dollar (USD) 311,000
• Midpoint Salary: US Dollar (USD) 338,000
• Maximum Salary : US Dollar (USD) 365,000
• FLSA: non-exempt and eligible for overtime pay
• Fund Type: Hard
• Work Location: Hybrid Onsite/Remote
• Pivotal Position: No
• Referral Bonus Available?: No
• Relocation Assistance Available?: Yes

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