Application Portfolio Manager (f/m/d)

Riveradvice; Porto; Híbrido; EUR 70 000 - 90 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

River Advice seeks an Application Portfolio Manager to own and optimize its application landscape, aligning with business needs. You will bridge business and IT, manage roadmaps, and drive governance across the portfolio.

You will collaborate with business units, IT teams, and vendors to ensure security, data protection and regulatory compliance, while maintaining cost efficiency and continuous improvement.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management and ITSM.
• Business-fluent communication in English and German.

Responsabilidades

• Ensure strategic alignment of the application portfolio with business objectives.
• Establish and maintain transparency across all applications including costs and value.
• Optimize the landscape by reducing complexity and improving cost efficiency.
• Manage full lifecycle from introduction to retirement of applications.
• Develop governance standards and processes for secure, compliant management.
• Lead Application Owners and CAB for structured governance.
• Translate business requirements into IT solutions and manage roadmaps.

Conhecimentos

Portfolio management

ITIL

Stakeholder management

Bilingual English & German

Microsoft applications

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in business administration

Ferramentas

ERP systems

CRM systems

ITSM tools

Descrição da oferta de emprego

It'stimeforboarding! Join our IT team as an Application Portfolio Manager and play a key role in shaping the future of our application landscape. You will take ownership of our application portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment, cost efficiency, business value, and continuous improvement while acting as a bridge between business needs and IT solutions.

River Advice is the world’s leading independent manager of river vessels. Under the umbrella of UNITED WATERWAYS, the group—with over 4,000 employees—represents a fleet of more than 100 passenger and event vessels on Europe’s inland waterways. With a broad range of services—from shipowning, crew, nautical, and technical management to hospitality & catering, safety & security, ship financing, charter brokerage, insurance management, new-build and refit support, and ship ICT—we support our clients in all areas of passenger inland waterway shipping.

Your responsibilities:

• Ensure the strategic alignment of the application portfolio with business objectives, including the evaluation, evolution, and retirement of existing systems
• Establish and maintain transparency across all applications, including functions, costs, usage, risks, and business value
• Optimize the application landscape by reducing complexity, consolidating systems, and improving cost and resource efficiency
• Manage the full application lifecycle – from introduction and operation to continuous improvement and retirement
• Develop and implement application governance, standards, and processes to ensure secure, compliant, and consistent application management
• Lead and coordinate Application Owners as well as the Application Change Advisory Board (CAB) to ensure structured application governance
• Act as a bridge between business and IT by translating business requirements into IT solutions, prioritizing initiatives, and managing application roadmaps and change requests
• Collaborate with business units, IT teams, project managers, and external software vendors to enhance solutions and ensure security, data protection, and regulatory compliance

Your Profile:

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in business administration or equivalent
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management and IT service management (ITSM)
• Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications
• Experience with enterprise applications (ERP, CRM, HR systems, or industry specific platforms)
• Familiarity with ITIL, integration concepts, APIs, and data flows
• Excellent communication skills, coordination, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to assert yourself, prepare decisions promptly, and obtain approval
• Business-fluent communication skills in English and German
• Experience in analytical and system development
• Proven analytical skills and understanding of organizational structure
• Experience in generation process documentation and reports
• Ability to think and act in a networked manner
• Very structured, reliable, and documented way of working
• Quick comprehension and affinity for identifying problem

What to expect at River Advice:

• An interesting, varied, and independent role with a high degree of autonomy in a fascinating, dynamic industry
• Long-term career opportunities within the UNITED WATERWAYS Group
• A supportive, experienced team
• A thorough introduction to the job

We offer you a thorough introduction to the role and a diverse range of responsibilities in a dynamic industry, office space in the beautiful city of Porto, long-term career development opportunities within the UNITED WATERWAYS Group, and a supportive, international, and experienced team at an expanding company.