Integrated Project Planning Lead — Agile & Portfolio Visibility

Vestas; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Vestas is seeking a driven planning specialist to join the T&O Project Planning team in Porto, Portugal. You will partner with Business Units to improve planning quality, connect value-chain areas, and drive end-to-end planning using tools like place, SAP PPM, cplace, and JIRA.

The role requires collaboration across global teams, adoption of common planning practices, and strong stakeholder engagement. This hybrid position offers opportunities to shape planning across the organization, with

Qualifications

• University degree in Engineering, Business Administration or a related field
• Solid professional experience in project, program, portfolio, or integrated planning within a complex, cross-functional organization is valuable
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and planning practices, with the ability to connect Agile ways of working with broader project and portfolio planning
• Experience with digital planning and portfolio management tools, with specific knowledge of SAP PPM, cplace, or JIRA considered valuable
• Effective customer and business-parting mindset, with the ability to understand Business Unit needs, build trusted relationships, and translate those needs into practical improvements
• Demonstrated ability to engage, motivate, and enable users, with a practical approach to coaching, training, and supporting teams in improving their planning capabilities and adopting new tools and ways of working
• Effective communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to develop clear and engaging training, guidance, and communication materials for different audiences and organizational levels
• Solid stakeholder management and collaboration skills across business and digital organizations
• Ability to bridge business planning needs with technical tool development and governance
• Solid communication, facilitation, and training skills
• Well-developed structured and problem-solving capabilities with a focus on simplification and continuous improvement
• Ability to implement adoption, standardization, and change across a global organization
• Organized, structured, and results-oriented mindset
• Deep focus on transparency, data quality, and creating trusted planning solutions
• Ability to build communities, encourage knowledge sharing, and promote best practices
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively in a global and diverse environment

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted planning partner for Business Units, building close relationships, understanding their needs and challenges, and providing direct support to improve planning quality and effectiveness
• Coordinate integrated planning across T&O, connecting Business Units, product and value-chain areas, PMOs, Project Excellence, Digital Solutions, and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment and visibility across plans
• Advance cplace adoption and user enablement, closely engaging, motivating, coaching, and supporting users to improve their planning capabilities and get the most value from the platform and common ways of working
• Shape the next waves of place development by staying close to Business Units, identifying real user needs and pain points, translating them into clear requirements, and helping prioritize improvements that deliver tangible business value
• Contribute to the evolution of Flow Agile methodologies and processes, ensuring close integration and connectivity with the overall T&O planning environment, tools, and ways of working
• Ensure planning quality, connectivity, and reliability, supporting teams in maintaining accurate and up-to-date plans, identifying cross-organizational dependencies, and making the planning environment a trusted source of information
• Advance continuous improvement and communication of planning capabilities, developing and delivering practical guidance, training, communication materials, and best practices that help users adopt common approaches and continuously improve how they plan

Skills

Agile methodologies

Planning coordination

Stakeholder management

Training and enablement

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Engineering/Business degree

Tools

SAP PPM

cplace

JIRA

Job description

Vestas is seeking a driven planning specialist to join the T&O Project Planning team in Porto, Portugal. You will partner with Business Units to improve planning quality, connect value-chain areas, and drive end-to-end planning using tools like place, SAP PPM, cplace, and JIRA.

The role requires collaboration across global teams, adoption of common planning practices, and strong stakeholder engagement. This hybrid position offers opportunities to shape planning across the organization, with