Senior Security Portfolio Manager

You desire impactful work.You’reRGA readyRGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.RGA’s Security Architecture & Controls organization is seeking a senior individual contributor to own portfolio management, delivery rigor, and process engineering for the security strategy agenda.This role sits at the intersection of security strategy, operational execution, and enterprise delivery, ensuring that security initiatives move from concept to measurable, repeatable outcomes. Reporting to the VP of Security Architecture & Controls, this position acts as the single-threaded owner for how security work is intaked/collected, structured, prioritized, executed, measured, and continuously improved.This is not a traditional security architect role, nor a pure project manager. The successful candidate is closer to a portfolio manager and process engineer, with enough security fluency to operate credibly across architecture, risk, compliance, and platform teams — and enough delivery discipline to impose order where ambiguity currently exists.Principle DutiesSecurity Portfolio Management & IntakeOwn the end-to-end security initiative portfolio, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, and dependency management across Security Architecture & Controls.Establish and run a structured intake process for new security initiatives, ensuring clarity on scope, objectives, success criteria, resourcing assumptions, and alignment to enterprise priorities.Maintain a holistic, continuously current view of portfolio health; proactively surface delivery risks, resource constraints, and misalignment before they become blockers.Partner with security leadership and initiative sponsors to evaluate tradeoffs, alternatives, and sequencing decisions in service of business outcomes.Strategy-to-Execution TranslationTranslate security strategy, regulatory drivers, and leadership directives into actionable roadmaps, epics, and work packages that delivery teams can execute against.Break down complex, multi-quarter initiatives into structured plans with clear milestones, ownership, and success metrics.Prepare executive- and leadership-facing materials that clearly communicate progress, risks, decisions required, and value delivered.Process Engineering & OperationalizationDesign, document, and continuously improve security operating processes across architecture, controls, risk, compliance, and delivery domains.Identify where the organization is relying on tribal knowledge, ad hoc execution, or manual effort — and replace it with repeatable, scalable, auditable processes.Act as the process owner for how security work flows through enterprise tooling (e.g., ServiceNow, GRC platforms), defining requirements and partnering with platform teams to implement and refine workflows.Facilitate post-delivery reviews and lessons learned, driving concrete process improvements that increase delivery reliability and reduce friction over time.Delivery Governance, Risk & Change ManagementImpose delivery discipline through mature risk, issue, and change management practices across the security portfolioEnsure transparent, regular communication of delivery status, risks, and blockers to stakeholders at all levelsPartner with finance and leadership to support capacity awareness, funding visibility, and prioritization decisions as initiatives evolveMetrics, Reporting & Decision SupportDefine and own the security portfolio metrics framework, including delivery performance, throughput, predictability, and outcome alignmentTranslate complex delivery and security data into clear narratives that support leadership decision‑makingContinuously evaluate whether metrics are driving the right behaviors; retire, refine, or introduce measures as the organization maturesQualificationsRequired8–10+ years of experience in portfolio management, program delivery, process engineering, or operational leadership, preferably within security, technology, or regulated environmentsDemonstrated ability to create structure where little exists — designing intake models, operating rhythms, and delivery processes from first principlesProven experience managing complex, cross‑functional portfolios with competing priorities and senior stakeholdersStrong understanding of risk, compliance, and governance concepts, and how they translate into operational security workExceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief executives and produce clear process and delivery documentationHigh comfort operating through influence rather than authorityPreferredExperience in financial services, insurance, or other