(Senior) Portfolio & Value Manager (all genders)

Your Tasks

As part of Beiersdorf Shared Services, our IT Strategy, Architecture & Portfolio function plays a vital role in ensuring strategic alignment between business needs and IT capabilities across global brands like NIVEA, Eucerin, and Hansaplast. We enable value-driven decision-making by overseeing the entire demand lifecycle, ensuring transparency, prioritization, and delivery of impactful initiatives across the IT portfolio.

To strengthen this mission, we are looking for a Senior Portfolio & Demand Manager (all genders) who brings strategic foresight, operational excellence, and a collaborative mindset to manage a dynamic global project portfolio and drive business value.

In this role, you will:

1. Act as a strategic partner to business units and IT teams by translating business goals into structured, prioritized demand pipelines and actionable project roadmaps.
2. Drive the development of a sustainable execution framework by integrating portfolio management, value realization, demand planning, and enterprise architecture—ensuring cohesive, forward-looking delivery of initiatives.
3. Champion a strong value mindset, ensuring that all initiatives are aligned with business outcomes and contribute measurable value to the organization.
4. Support development and implementation of value measurement frameworks for transparency and accountability in IT investments.
5. Manage the global IT project portfolio, ensuring transparency, consistency, and alignment with strategic objectives across all business functions.
6. Establish and maintain effective governance structures and best practices for efficient and standardized portfolio and demand management.
7. Lead and continuously evolve the end-to-end demand management process, from intake and evaluation to prioritization, governance, and delivery tracking.
8. Support cross-functional steering committees and decision-making bodies by delivering clear, data-driven portfolio insights, reports, and recommendations.
9. Partner with Finance and Controlling teams to enable sound investment planning, accurate forecasting, and benefit tracking across IT initiatives.
10. Cultivate a positive and structured change management culture, enabling smooth transitions, stakeholder engagement, and adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.
11. Continuously improve portfolio and demand management processes by leveraging stakeholder feedback, digital tools, and automation to increase transparency, agility, and value delivery.

Your Profile

1. Degree in (Business) Computer Science, (Business) Engineering or a related IT-focused field.
2. Several years of experience in IT portfolio management, demand management, IT Strategy Consultancy, or strategic project planning, ideally in a global matrix organization.
3. Strong understanding of IT project and program management methodologies, tools, and lifecycles.
4. Strong ability to simplify complex technical topics, making them understandable for diverse stakeholders.
5. Profound expertise in Enterprise Architecture tools (e.g. SAP LeanIX), methods and frameworks.
6. Strong experience working with portfolio management platforms (e.g. ServiceNow) and excellent proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
7. Analytical mindset with the ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights and executive-ready reports.
8. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
9. Proactive, structured, and business-oriented approach to problem-solving.
10. Familiarity with agile frameworks and hybrid delivery models is a plus.

Additional Information

If you have any questions, please contact our recruiter Carina Huesmann every Wednesday between 9am and 10am.

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