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Do you thrive in a complex international IT landscape, driving strategic impact across portfolios and senior stakeholder levels? Are you the connector who turns business strategy into executable technology initiatives—while maintaining governance, clarity, and control? Then this interim role as Manager Portfolio Management might be the next step in your career.

Do you thrive in a complex international IT landscape, driving strategic impact across portfolios and senior stakeholder levels? Are you the connector who turns business strategy into executable technology initiatives—while maintaining governance, clarity, and control? Then this interim role as Manager Portfolio Management might be the next step in your career.

As Manager Portfolio Management, you are responsible for overseeing one or two strategic IT portfolios that consist primarily of large one-time programs, projects and product initiatives. You partner with senior IT leaders and business stakeholders to shape demand, prioritize roadmaps, maintain governance, and ensure successful execution from idea to delivery. You contribute to continuous improvement of portfolio processes, governance, and tooling within a global enterprise environment.

You will join a professional and collaborative IT Portfolio Management team within a dynamic, international organization known for its strong digital transformation journey.

Key Responsibilities

* End-to-end portfolio ownership: shaping, prioritizing, and continuously improving portfolios;
* Partner with senior IT and business stakeholders to align technology portfolios with strategic objectives;
* Develop and guide roadmap planning for upcoming fiscal years;
* Facilitate portfolio and governance meetings at executive level;
* Monitor portfolio health across execution, financials and resource planning;
* Challenge and coach project teams to ensure readiness and delivery discipline;
* Collaborate with Finance to validate and strengthen business cases;
* Report portfolio performance and escalate risks where needed;
* Strengthen the Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) community of practice;
* Drive adoption of PPM processes, tooling, and governance globally.

* Interim assignment in a leading global organization;
* Strategic role with influence at senior leadership level;
* International, innovative and collaborative IT environment;
* Opportunity to shape portfolio management across regions;
* Hybrid working model;
* Office located in Amsterdam.

How we'll proceed. Within four working days, we will let you know if you qualify for this position. We will schedule an introductory interview, either digitally or in-person. During this interview, we will inform you as fully as possible about the vacancy, the company and the rest of the procedure. After consulting with you, we will introduce you to our client and then continue to guide you through the application process. The Independent Recruiters Group has a large team of specialized recruiters. Each recruiter has a strong focus on their own area of expertise, which makes them the ideal sparring partner for both the candidate and the client.

Experience * 5-10 years in portfolio, program, or project management in an enterprise environment; * Proven track record managing large, complex (global) IT programs; * Experience working with senior leadership and high-level decision making; * Strong knowledge of Agile and traditional project delivery methods (hybrid environments); * Experience with portfolio governance and executive reporting; * Comfortable operating in a matrixed, international organization. Education & Certifications * Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred; * Project/Program Management training required; * Certifications such as PMP, SAFe, CSM or Portfolio Management are a plus. Skills * Strong stakeholder management and influencing ability; * Outstanding communication and presentation skills; * Strategic thinker with hands-on delivery experience; * Skilled in MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio; experience with Asana and JIRA preferred.