Interim Portfolio Management Lead, Digital & Tech

Pandora; København; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Pandora, headquartered in Copenhagen, seeks an Interim Senior Manager of Portfolio Management to lead the Portfolio Management function within Digital & Technology. You will enable decision-making, drive strategy, and ensure value delivery across initiatives, projects and programmes.

This maternity cover role spans approximately nine months and involves leading a four-person team, shaping options with insights, and aligning capacity and investments to strategic priorities.

Qualifications

• Seven+ years of experience in Portfolio/Product/Project Management for large, complex portfolios.
• Proven track record of leading and enabling high-performance teams.
• Experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders at leadership level.
• Deep understanding of business models, strategic priorities and value drivers.
• Ability to collaborate across EA, PMO, Product Management and Engineering leadership.
• Experience delivering using both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Knowledge of technology development lifecycles and portfolio governance best practices.
• Experience with outcome-based planning and measurement, including OKRs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of four to sustain high performance.
• Facilitate cross-domain discussions and shape options with insights and scenarios.
• Enable portfolio-level capacity planning in partnership with Finance and HR.
• Develop and maintain the portfolio strategy and value-realisation framework.
• Establish prioritisation mechanisms and cross-portfolio alignment for technology initiatives.
• Conduct portfolio analysis including risk, dependencies, conflicts and financials.
• Maintain a strategic technology roadmap and monitor portfolio health and value.
• Continuously optimise portfolio management processes, data and tools with Delivery Enablement.

Skills

Portfolio management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

OKRs

PowerPoint

Excel

Confluence

Jira

Agile / Waterfall

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Pandora, headquartered in Copenhagen, seeks an Interim Senior Manager of Portfolio Management to lead the Portfolio Management function within Digital & Technology. You will enable decision-making, drive strategy, and ensure value delivery across initiatives, projects and programmes.

This maternity cover role spans approximately nine months and involves leading a four-person team, shaping options with insights, and aligning capacity and investments to strategic priorities.