Network Governance and Portfolio Manager

Siemens Energy, Inc.; Amadora; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal allowance

Health insurance coverage

Remote work within the country

Pontes days off

Birthday off

Job summary

Siemens Energy is seeking a Network Governance and Portfolio Manager for Lisbon or Porto to catalyze clear decision-making across strategy, funding, and delivery. You will consolidate demand, lifecycle risks, and architecture inputs into concise steering decisions, collaborating with heads of Network Services, Strategy and Architecture, and Finance.

The role emphasizes visibility of priorities, risks, and outcomes with pragmatic governance.

Qualifications

• A university degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, or a comparable discipline.
• Significant experience in IT portfolio management, governance, service management, product operations, PMO, or technology investment planning in a complex organization.
• Strong understanding of platform and product operating models, including roadmaps, backlogs, lifecycle decisions, OKRs, capacity, and value measurement.
• Experience consolidating demand, budgets, risks, suppliers, and delivery dependencies into concise management recommendations.
• Knowledge of supplier governance, QBRs, lifecycle and renewal planning, risk registers, and managed-service environments.
• Strong analytical capabilities in reporting, scenario development, prioritization, forecasting, and executive-level decision support.
• Familiarity with ITSM, portfolio, and reporting tools; an understanding of automation and AI-enabled operations is desirable.
• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with a pragmatic approach that strengthens decisions without creating bureaucracy.

Responsibilities

• Establish and run the Network Services governance cadence across strategic, tactical, and delivery levels, including agendas, decision rights, actions, and transparent follow-up.
• Maintain the integrated portfolio and platform roadmap, connecting demand, technical debt, lifecycle, risk, capacity, dependencies, and available funding.
• Provide decision-ready reporting on platform outcomes, delivery lead time, adoption, reliability, automation progress, supplier performance, and portfolio health.
• Coordinate supplier lifecycle and risk views through common scorecards, QBR inputs, renewal timelines, concentration risks, and systemic escalation themes.
• Support investment and prioritization decisions with consistent criteria, scenarios, and traceable decisions while keeping ownership with platform and service leaders.

Skills

Portfolio management

Governance

Stakeholder management

Analytical reporting

Forecasting

Education

University degree (Business Administration / Engineering / IT)

Tools

ITSM tools

Portfolio management tools

Reporting tools

Job description

A Snapshot of Your Day

Join the innovative Siemens Digital Core team at our Lisbon or Porto offices as a Network Governance and Portfolio Manager! In this pivotal role, you will create the decision rhythm that keeps Network Services aligned with strategy, funding, and delivery capacity. Your day may involve preparing a roadmap review, consolidating demand and lifecycle risks, challenging business cases, or transforming architecture and supplier inputs into clear steering decisions. You will collaborate closely with the Head of Network Services, Strategy and Architecture, the Lead Demand Manager, service and platform owners, Finance, Procurement, and suppliers. Your mission is to make priorities, dependencies, risks, and outcomes visible while avoiding unnecessary process overhead.

A Snapshot of Your Day

Join the innovative Siemens Digital Core team at our Lisbon or Porto offices as a Network Governance and Portfolio Manager! In this pivotal role, you will create the decision rhythm that keeps Network Services aligned with strategy, funding, and delivery capacity. Your day may involve preparing a roadmap review, consolidating demand and lifecycle risks, challenging business cases, or transforming architecture and supplier inputs into clear steering decisions. You will collaborate closely with the Head of Network Services, Strategy and Architecture, the Lead Demand Manager, service and platform owners, Finance, Procurement, and suppliers. Your mission is to make priorities, dependencies, risks, and outcomes visible while avoiding unnecessary process overhead.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Establish and run the Network Services governance cadence across strategic, tactical, and delivery levels, including agendas, decision rights, actions, and transparent follow-up.
• Maintain the integrated portfolio and platform roadmap, connecting demand, technical debt, lifecycle, risk, capacity, dependencies, and available funding.
• Provide decision-ready reporting on platform outcomes, delivery lead time, adoption, reliability, automation progress, supplier performance, and portfolio health.
• Coordinate supplier lifecycle and risk views through common scorecards, QBR inputs, renewal timelines, concentration risks, and systemic escalation themes.
• Support investment and prioritization decisions with consistent criteria, scenarios, and traceable decisions while keeping ownership with platform and service leaders.

What You Bring

• A university degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, or a comparable discipline.
• Significant experience in IT portfolio management, governance, service management, product operations, PMO, or technology investment planning in a complex organization.
• Strong understanding of platform and product operating models, including roadmaps, backlogs, lifecycle decisions, OKRs, capacity, and value measurement.
• Experience consolidating demand, budgets, risks, suppliers, and delivery dependencies into concise management recommendations.
• Knowledge of supplier governance, QBRs, lifecycle and renewal planning, risk registers, and managed-service environments.
• Strong analytical capabilities in reporting, scenario development, prioritization, forecasting, and executive-level decision support.
• Familiarity with ITSM, portfolio, and reporting tools; an understanding of automation and AI-enabled operations is desirable.
• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with a pragmatic approach that strengthens decisions without creating bureaucracy.

About The Team

Network Services is responsible for designing, delivering, and continuously evolving Siemens Energy's global connectivity and network security capabilities. We are transitioning from a traditional service-oriented model toward platform delivery, emphasizing clear ownership, reusable standards, automation, observability, and AI-enabled operations. Our teams work across campus, wide-area, cloud, and data-center connectivity, core IP services, secure access, segmentation, and network reliability, partnering closely with Cybersecurity, Digital Workplace, Cloud, Data Center, OT, and external suppliers.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet growing energy demand while supporting the transformation toward a more sustainable energy world. Our global teams combine deep engineering experience with digital technologies to deliver reliable, secure, and affordable energy solutions. We value people who challenge established approaches, build trusted partnerships, and help turn technology into measurable business outcomes.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion, and our combined creative energy is motivated by colleagues from many nationalities, backgrounds, and perspectives. Siemens Energy celebrates character and does not discriminate based on differences. We welcome applications from people who share our commitment to an inclusive workplace.

Rewards/Benefits

• Competitive salary and meal allowance
• Fair compensation for international work
• Health insurance coverage
• Remote work permitted within the country
• Additional 5 "Pontes" days off and Birthday off if it falls on a weekday, when not abroad (only applies for Portugal)
• Among others