Director, Program and Portfolio Management

Fanatics Commerce is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, operating a vertically integrated platform that designs, manufactures, and delivers officially licensed apparel, jerseys, headwear, and collectibles for major leagues, teams, and events worldwide. With more than 900 e-commerce sites and a global omnichannel presence across digital, in-venue, and retail, Fanatics Commerce reaches fans in over 180 countries and powers official fan experiences for many of the world's most iconic sports properties. At Fanatics, we bring our BOLD Leadership Principles to life every day - building championship teams, obsessing over fans, acting with entrepreneurial speed, and delivering with a determined and relentless mindset. Director, Program & Portfolio Management Fanatics Commerce is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, operating a vertically integrated platform that designs, manufactures, and delivers officially licensed apparel, jerseys, headwear, and collectibles for major leagues, teams, and events worldwide. With more than 900 e-commerce sites and a global omnichannel presence across digital, in-venue, and retail, Fanatics Commerce reaches fans in over 180 countries and powers official fan experiences for many of the world's most iconic sports properties. At Fanatics, we bring our BOLD Leadership Principles to life every day—building championship teams, obsessing over fans, acting with limitless entrepreneurial spirit, and delivering with a determined and relentless mindset. As we continue to scale our global platform, the Director, Program & Portfolio Management will play a critical role in establishing governed, AI-powered portfolio delivery discipline across Fanatics Technology. ROLE OVERVIEW The Director, Program & Portfolio Management owns the operating rhythm, tooling, and delivery standards for the Fanatics Technology portfolio — a function actively being built to bring one standard of governance and discipline to enterprise programs including ERP, PLM, Fulfillment, Distribution, and Manufacturing & Logistics networks powering a $5B eCommerce and $2B wholesale business. This is an active-build role: the Director will define the Project, Program & Portfolio Playbook, stand up the tooling and taxonomy infrastructure, and embed AI as the default way the team operates — not a future-state aspiration. The Director, Program & Portfolio Management delivers business and fan impact through BOLD leadership and execution excellence, leveraging data, automation, and AI-enabled insights. HOW WILL YOU DRIVE IMPACT Success is measured by the ability to deliver results through BOLD capabilities and measurable outcomes. Team & Leadership Impact (Build Championship Teams) Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with Product Management leadership, Engineering, and business sponsors to keep portfolio delivery status aligned to product roadmaps and priorities, and to surface and resolve scope, resourcing, and prioritization conflicts before they escalate. Drive Change Management across Fanatics Technology to ensure the Project, Program & Portfolio Playbook is adopted and held to consistently organization-wide — not just within this team. Support and help continuously improve the SteerCo, Monthly Leader Review, and Tech Bi-weekly cadences, ensuring prep and follow-through on actions and decisions are consistent with portfolio objectives. People Leadership: Manage a team of Project and Program Managers; set expectations and hold the team accountable to consistent delivery standards, status reporting quality, and data integrity. Coach the team on AI-assisted ways of working as a baseline skill, building the next generation of program and project management practice within Fanatics Technology. Develop team members into stronger operators by modeling the standard of practice the broader organization is pulled up to. Fan & Customer Impact (Obsessed with Fans) Go direct to business, Product, and engineering stakeholders to understand where the current operating rhythm and reporting genuinely fail them — rather than relying on secondhand input — and fix root causes rather than patching symptoms. Translate complex, multi-workstream program detail into decision-ready executive narratives that give senior leadership a clear, accurate picture of delivery health, risk, and resourcing. Ensure value realization and value-based decisioning are built into every forum, report, and piece of content — not just delivery status — so leadership attention is directed to what actually matters. Provide portfolio-level visibility to senior leadership in a way that enables faster, better-informed decisions that ultimately protect delivery outcomes for the fans and business units Fanatics Technology serves. Innovation & Problem Solving (Limitless Entrepreneurial Spirit) Make AI the default way the team operates — leveraging tools like Claude for status reporting, work-item creation, schedule and risk analysis, and deck generation — and own the longer-term vision for next-gen program and portfolio management as the Portfolio Layer matures. Simplify fragmented, ad hoc portfolio reporting into one governed standard, replacing manual status decks and spreadsheets with a single Golden Record as the organization's source of truth. Pilot AI-enabled ways of working even while tooling and standards are still being defined, treating the build phase as an opportunity to shape the practice rather than wait for a finished system to inherit. Drive the portfolio toward a genuinely predictive — not just retrospective — view of delivery health and resourcing, leveraging AI-assisted forum content and the maturing Portfolio Layer. Ownership & Execution (Determined & Relentless Mindset) Own the portfolio, program, and project taxonomy, hierarchy structure, and data standards across the Fanatics Technology portfolio — including transformation programs anchored by an e