Portfolio Manager

Societe Generale; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Health package

Meal allowance

Sports card

Insurance

Job summary

Société Générale in Warsaw seeks an experienced Portfolio Management professional to steer and optimize a cross-functional project portfolio in line with strategic objectives. You will drive decision-making, manage risk, and lead arbitrage processes with senior leaders.

The role requires strong analytical abilities, excellent communication, and a track record in financial services transformation projects. Hybrid work arrangements are offered in a brand-new Warsaw office with extensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in program or project management and portfolio steering in financial services.
• Ability to challenge programs, business cases, and drive value creation.
• Strong communication with senior management and stakeholders.
• Experience leading arbitrage processes and refining business cases.

Responsibilities

• Steer and optimize your project portfolio to maximize strategic impact and value.
• Monitor portfolio performance focusing on value, delivery, capacity, and risk.
• Lead arbitrage processes with data-driven business-case analysis.
• Represent GBTO ExCo to business lines and challenge/refine business cases.
• Prepare Senior Committees, Business Reviews, and Portfolio Reviews for alignment.

Skills

Portfolio management

Change management

Financial analysis

Excel advanced

Stakeholder communication

Arbitrage processes

Education

PMP certification (preferred)

Tools

Excel

Job description

Responsibilities

The Project Portfolio Management team (PPM) plays a pivotal role in steering and optimizing the portfolio Investment to ensure alignment with strategic goals, maximize value delivery, and manage risks effectively. This role requires a strong ability to challenge programs, projects, business cases, lead arbitrage processes and represent GBTO ExCo in front of business lines, driving impactful decision-making and portfolio performance.

Our team is focused on delivering value and strategic impact by:

• Steering the portfolio to ensure effective allocation of resources and alignment with strategic objectives
• Analysing the performance of strategic programs, including delivery, value creation, capacity, and risk management
• Coordinating the arbitrage process based on business and value case analysis, ensuring the best use of the allocated budget
• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior management, challenging business cases, and driving decisions that maximize the value of every euro spent

Your future scope of responsibility will cover

• Steering and optimizing your own project portfolio to maximize strategic impact and value delivery
• Monitoring portfolio performance with a focus on value, delivery, capacity, and risk analysis
• Leading the arbitrage process, ensuring decisions are grounded in robust business and value case analysis
• Representing GBTO ExCo in front of business lines, acting as a strategic partner to challenge and refine business cases
• Organizing and preparing Senior Committees, Business Reviews, and Portfolio Reviews to ensure transparency and alignment with strategic goals
• Supporting the structuring of large-scale, cross-functional projects
• Driving continuous improvement of the PPM process, providing training and guidance to stakeholders
• Acting as a custodian of the PPM framework (methods, processes, and tools) while ensuring its execution aligns with the operating model

Required

You will be best suited for this role if:

• You have extensive experience with at least 5+ years in program or project management as well as portfolio steering leading the delivery of strategic transformation projects (Change The Business - CTB) in financial services sector
• You have a proven ability to analyse, challenge, and steer portfolios, proactively driving value creation and managing risks
• You possess strong communication skills and the right posture to engage with top management and senior stakeholders
• You have experience leading arbitrage processes, challenging business cases, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
• You have a deep understanding of financial environments and can translate complex data into actionable insights
• You hold a PMP or other relevant certification (preferred but not mandatory)
• You have advanced Excel skills for high-level data analysis, reporting, and process improvement
• Fluency in English (oral and written) is required, with French as asset

Why join us

Your future with Societe Generale will include:

• Work in a pleasant atmosphere as part of an international team in a brand-new office in the center of Warsaw, designed with facilities for people with disabilities
• An active role in an international structure and the opportunity for growth
• Access to educational platforms and language courses
• Stability
• Competitive salary based on seniority and skills
• Support in quick adaptation in the company
• Extraordinary health package with extensive dental care
• Hybrid work (3 office days per week) and one-time bonus for home office equipment
• Even more benefits such as meal allowance, holiday fund, sports card and insurance
• Please be informed that we will be accepting only resumes in English.

Business insight

At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious.

Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating and taking action are part of our DNA.

If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

Still hesitating?

You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.