Freelance VP, Media

At Portage Point Partners (Portage Point), you are not a cog in a legacy machine, you are shaping strategy, influencing outcomes and getting rewarded for driving impact. 5000, The Financial Times and Consulting Magazine. Our cross-functional platform spans the full business lifecycle and offers middle market clients integrated solutions across Transaction Advisory Services (TAS), Transaction Execution Services (TES), Office of the CFO (OCFO), Performance Improvement (PI), Interim Management (IM), Investment Banking (IB), Valuations and Turnaround & Restructuring Services (TRS).

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The Delivery Enablement (DE) team powers Portage Point’s growth as a scalable, high-quality operational backbone. Including Coverage, Data Analytics, Delivery Excellence, Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Marketing, Operations and Talent Acquisition, the DE team drives excellence, efficiency and automation across every practice line.

Build and nurture relationships, converting introductions from events, conferences and networks into active opportunities

Operate in an apprenticeship model by shadowing the CRO in client and prospect interactions to learn the firm’s commercial approach in order to expand Portage Point’s visibility across the middle market

Contribute to Coverage meetings by capturing insights, managing follow-ups, and driving next steps to maintain momentum

Serve as a visible leader of the P2P initiative, ensuring consistent adoption of Activator disciplines across the funnel

Ensure CRM (Intapp) data integrity and partner with Data & Analytics to enhance dashboards and translate insights into decisions

Run disciplined pipeline reviews, ensuring accountability, commentary and clear next steps

Oversee consistent, strategic account management, supported by offshore resources for administrative execution

Apply a program management discipline to business development campaigns, client pursuits and sales enablement initiatives

Lead the rebuild of the account management process, providing thought leadership, structure and accountability across coverage teams

Support talent acquisition and firm-building initiatives

Bachelor’s degree from a top undergraduate program

Located in or willing to relocate to Chicago or New York

Invested in a team-based culture, motivated to collaborate in office four days per week and willing to visit client sites as needed

Familiarity with middle market dynamics, particularly private equity sponsors, lenders, and operators

PMO discipline to run multi-threaded pursuits and campaigns

Proficiency with AI tools and workflows and an ability to apply them in commercial processes

Intapp proficiency preferred and advanced PowerPoint and Excel required

This range represents the anticipated minimum and maximum cash compensation for this position based upon a good faith and reasonable estimate. xklufbp The final compensation for this position will be set based on the applicant’s qualifications (education, training and / or experience related to this role), and therefore, may fall outside the range shown, depending on the circumstances.