IT Portfolio Manager

Job Description

Our company’s Information Technology division partners with colleagues across the business to help serve our patients and customers around the world. Ours is a high-energy team of dynamic, innovative individuals dedicated to leveraging information and technology to efficiently drive revenue and productivity, thereby advancing our company’s contribution to global medical innovation. Join us and be part of a team that is at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct day-to-day analysis, operations, and forecasting for IT investment portfolios.
• Support the performance tracking of portfolios for multiple value teams, ensuring alignment with investment objectives.
• Assist in the implementation of standardized IT investment management strategies, including project prioritization, resource allocation, and financial analysis, leveraging automation.
• Work with stakeholders, finance teams, and senior leadership to secure funding for IT projects, providing financial justification, cost estimates, and ROI analysis.
• Manage the collection, forecasting, and tracking of resources (internal and external) and allocate them to initiatives appropriately.
• Participate in the annual and quarterly investment planning cycle, partnering with team leads to provide guidance and oversight.
• Ensure adherence to allocated budgets and maintain accurate forecasts for Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Monitor and report on project health metrics, ensuring execution within budget and governance activities.
• Act as a strategic partner to our EIT value teams, providing coaching, guidance, and advice.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree required. Concentration in Information Technology, Business, or related field is preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in IT portfolio/project management or finance.
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple IT projects simultaneously, including planning, execution, and monitoring.
• Experience in portfolio management, preferably in an IT or technology-related setting, including skills in portfolio planning, prioritization, resource allocation, financial management, and performance tracking.
• Experience in process optimization and continuous improvement, with a focus on simplifying and standardizing complex workflows and automation.
• Experience with data analysis, visualization, and reporting, including working with large data sets and leveraging BI tools to deliver insights.
• Proficiency in financial management and budgeting; understanding financial concepts such as ROI analysis, cost estimation, budget monitoring, and business case development.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with stakeholders, including IT teams, executives, project sponsors, and business units.
• Familiarity with agile project management methodologies.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary & incentive pay
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system and referral scheme
• 5  weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40  paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner 

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Required Skills:

Agile Methodology, Business Case Development, Financial Management, Financial Performance Management, IT Financial Management, IT Portfolio Management, Measurement Analysis, Pharmaceutical Research, Portfolio, Programme, and Project Support, Portfolio Management, Prioritization, Program Management, Project Prioritization, Risk Management, SAP Ariba, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Total Cost of Ownership Analysis, Waterfall Model

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Job Posting End Date:

08/22/2026

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