Senior Manager, Portfolio & Performance Management, Global Operations, GN

GN Group; Denmark; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

GN Group seeks a Senior Manager for Portfolio & Performance Management to shape how Global Operations invests, executes, and measures performance. You will build and lead a small team, design governance, and drive data‑driven decisions across an international organization.

Based at GN’s headquarters in Denmark, you will own the strategic portfolio, develop KPIs and OKRs, enable self‑service analytics, and explore AI‑enabled reporting.

Qualifications

• Background spanning portfolio/PMO management and data/BI.
• Ability to turn business and portfolio data into actionable insights for decision-makers.
• Proven experience in portfolio or PMO management in a fast-paced, cross-functional organization.
• Hands-on experience with Power BI/Fabric or equivalent BI tools and data infrastructures.
• Strong analytical mindset with ability to translate complex data into leadership narratives.
• Experience designing and operating performance management frameworks (KPIs, OKRs, or equivalent).
• Comfort in transformation environments with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Demonstrated leadership leading international teams across multiple time zones.
• Fluent in English both in writing and speaking.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern the Global Operations strategic portfolio, ensuring transparency on priorities, progress, risks, resources, and dependencies.
• Lead the PMO team and drive consistent project and program management practices and reporting.
• Collaborate closely with functional PMOs, program and project managers, and key counterparts in DDI and R&D to strengthen alignment, governance, and delivery.
• Own the reporting data foundation ensuring reliable and accessible data for performance management.
• Enable self-service analytics and deliver dashboards and scorecards that support leadership decision‑making.
• Own and develop the performance management framework, connecting strategic priorities and portfolio with operational KPIs and outcomes.
• Actively explore how AI can improve and accelerate reporting, PMO practices, and portfolio insights.

Job description

Do you thrive at the intersection of strategy, execution, and performance insights? As our new Senior Manager for Portfolio & Performance Management, you will play a key role in giving Global Operations a clear, data‑driven view of what we invest in, how we execute, and how we perform. You will lead a small team while actively shaping portfolio governance, performance management, and decision‑making across a fast‑paced, international organization. You will be building and shaping this function from building blocks of varying maturity levels, not inheriting a finished function ready to go. If you are motivated by turning complexity into clarity and enabling better business decisions, we encourage you to read on.

The team you will be part of: You will join the team at GN’s Headquarters in Ballerup, Denmark and report to the Head of Strategy and Management Office. Here you will join a group of 25+ colleagues across other excellence and strategy execution domains working closely with stakeholders across Global Operations and GN. We come from many different educational, national and professional backgrounds and in all shapes, ages and sizes and truly value strength in diverse perspectives. A collaborative mindset, a pragmatic approach and a bias to make a true difference is needed to thrive in this team. Your contribution is appreciated, and you will Own and govern the Global Operations strategic portfolio, ensuring transparency on priorities, progress, risks, resource allocation, and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern the Global Operations strategic portfolio, ensuring transparency on priorities, progress, risks, resource allocation, and dependencies.
• Lead the PMO team and take an active role in driving consistent project and program management practices and reporting across Global Operations.
• Collaborate closely with functional PMOs, program and project managers, and key counterparts in DDI and R&D to strengthen alignment, governance, and delivery.
• Own the reporting data foundation ensuring reliable and accessible data for performance management.
• Enable self‑service analytics and deliver dashboards and scorecards that support leadership decision‑making.
• Own and develop the performance management framework, connecting strategic priorities and portfolio with operational KPIs and outcomes.
• Actively explore how AI can improve and accelerate reporting, PMO practices, and portfolio insights.

Requirements

• Have a background that credibly spans both portfolio/PMO management and data/BI.
• Have the ability and the experience turning business and portfolio data into true insights for decision‑makers.
• Proven experience in portfolio or PMO management in a fast‑paced, cross‑functional organization.
• Hands‑on experience with Power BI/Fabric or equivalent BI tools and data infrastructures as well as the ability to bridge business needs and data solutions.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate complex data into clear leadership narratives.
• Experience designing and/or operating performance management frameworks (KPIs, OKRs, or equivalent).
• Comfortable operating in a transformation environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Demonstrated leadership experience leading an international team across multiple time zones.
• Fluent in English both in writing and orally.

All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

As such, we encourage you to submit your CV without a photo to ensure an equal and fair application process.

We hope you will join us on this journey and look forward to receiving your application.

GN brings people closer through our leading intelligent hearing, audio, video, and gaming solutions. Inspired by people and driven by innovation, we deliver technology that enhance the senses of hearing and sight. We help people with hearing loss overcome real‑life challenges, improve communication and collaboration for businesses, and provide great experiences for audio and gaming enthusiasts.

GN was founded more than 150 years ago with a vision to connect the world. Today, inspired by our strong heritage, GN touches more lives than ever with the broadest portfolio of products and services in our history – fostering a sense of community, openness, and understanding. By listening to customers and combining our unique expertise in the human ear, audio, video, and speech, wireless technologies, software, and miniaturization, we transform what it takes to bring people closer to what is important to them.

The GN‑owned brands that are responsible for bringing these technologies to life: Medical grade hearing technology: ReSound, Beltone, Interton, Jabra. Professional collaboration: Jabra, BlueParrott, FalCom. Gaming, calls and media: SteelSeries, Jabra. Founded in 1869, the GN Group employs 7,000 people and is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen (GN.CO). GN’s solutions are sold in around 100 countries across the world. If you would like to learn more about us, visit our homepage gn.com or click on our different brands. You can also connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.