Portfolio & Program Manager
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Portfolio & Program Manager at Wavestone overseeing portfolio management practices and financial governance. Collaborating with stakeholders and driving strategic transformations for clients in a remote role.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, structure, and further develop both classical and agile portfolio management practices
- Oversee portfolio‑level financials, including CAPEX/OPEX planning, forecasting, budget tracking, and benefits realization
- Prepare and support governance routines (SteerCos, review boards) with high‑quality insights, reports, and decision‑ready materials
- Ensure portfolio governance standards, reporting structures, and processes are embedded across delivery teams
- Analyze current portfolio processes, identify pain points and maturity gaps, and design actionable improvement measures
- Collaborate with PMO and business/tech stakeholders to harmonize frameworks, methods, and tooling
- Drive prioritization, risk transparency, resource allocation overview, and portfolio reporting improvements
- Act as a key interface to senior stakeholders, including Domain Leads and the CIO
- Facilitate workshops, alignment discussions, and portfolio decision processes
- Represent portfolio insights and recommendations confidently in front of senior leadership and governance boards, even without formal leadership authority
- Support transformational PMO capability building, not just delivery execution
Requirements:
- Strong background in portfolio management, IT governance, or transformation steering
- Proven experience in PMO leadership, portfolio management, or transformation roles
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into clear insights and decision support
- Excellent Excel (advanced modeling, automation, pivoting) and PowerPoint (C‑level storytelling) capabilities
- Confident communicator who interacts effectively with senior leadership and cross‑functional teams
- Hands‑on, proactive, resilient, and able to operate independently with high accountability
- Strong change‑management and stakeholder‑alignment abilities
- Practical experience using AI‑supported productivity and analysis tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, AI‑powered reporting/automation)
- Fluent in business English and German (spoken and written)
Benefits:
- Career model: For us, a career that is individually tailored to your needs means individual development opportunities in line with your vision and at your pace.
- Continuing education: Let's grow together! Stay up to date with over 200 training days per year in our Academy, or continue your education through certification courses.
- German classes: We encourage you to learn a new language, as it will be useful for you in your career development.
- Leadership culture: Respect, appreciation, and the highest level of expertise are the key elements of our "Coaching & Leading" leadership model.
- Mobile Work: Flexible, mobile working is part of our DNA.
- Me-Time: We provide tailored vacation days, that will be increased every year (max. 30 days) based on your seniority within the company, as well as flexible working hours.
- Private Health Insurance: You are important to us; such is your health.
- Multi-benefits Platform: As flexibility is in our DNA, it also translates into our benefits.
- Mindfulness & Health: The Mindfulness Community offers mindfulness training and regular exchange.
- Events: Numerous events for networking and celebrating are simply part of our Wavestone life.
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