Senior Portfolio Professional

This role will strengthen and further develop the organisation's portfolio and project management framework. It connects strategy, governance, processes, tools, and stakeholders to create practical standards, guidance, training, and documentation. Working as a trusted expert, the postholder will help teams manage portfolios and projects with greater consistency, transparency, and impact across the organisation.

• Shape, review, and continuously improve the organisation's portfolio and project management framework, including governance principles, project lifecycles, roles, and decision-making processes.
• Create and maintain practical standards, templates, playbooks, guidelines, and decision-making documentation to support consistent and effective project execution.
• Partner with stakeholders across functions, portfolios, programmes, projects, processes, and tools to understand complex dependencies and translate them into clear, coherent end-to-end ways of working.
• Strengthen portfolio and project management capabilities by designing and delivering engaging training sessions, workshops, onboarding materials, and knowledge-sharing formats.
• Support portfolio and project stakeholders as a trusted advisor, facilitate alignment on common standards, and provide senior management with clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Monitor the application and effectiveness of standards, gather feedback, identify improvement opportunities, and promote their sustainable adoption across the organisation's project landscape.

• 6+ years of relevant experience in portfolio, programme, or project management environments.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Economics, Business Administration, or similar.
• Fluent in English.
• Deep expertise in portfolio and project governance, lifecycle models, prioritisation, and project management standards.
• Proven ability to design, improve, document, and embed frameworks, standards, processes, and templates.
• Strong tool affinity and the ability to translate standards, methodologies, and governance requirements into practical solutions within the existing tool landscape.
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to understand complex cross-functional dependencies and end-to-end connections.
• Excellent conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in developing and delivering training, workshops, guidance, and knowledge materials.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across all functions and seniority levels.

• German language skills (advantage).
• Experience in a global organisation (ideally).