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About the Role
Join our Portfolio & Project Office (PPO) at Springer Nature Technology, where you will help shape impactful projects from concept to execution. This role is crucial for implementing frameworks that foster transparency, enhance decision-making, and prioritise value creation, ensuring every project aligns with our core objectives and strategic vision.
Responsibilities
- Continuously evaluate, prioritise and manage IT project proposals to align with organisational goals.
- Oversee resource allocation across the portfolio, balancing project needs with capacity and coordinating across teams.
- Maintain visibility of project portfolio progress, risks and outcomes, tracking performance and adjusting plans.
- Identify, assess and mitigate risks across the project portfolio, providing regular updates on risk status and mitigation plans.
- Address emerging issues proactively, using strategic insights to minimise impact and facilitate solutions.
- Analyse project data to produce performance insights, including financial metrics, resource utilisation and project outcomes.
- Develop and refine portfolio reporting frameworks for consistent and transparent communication to senior leadership.
- Collaborate closely with the IT Finance Business Partner to ensure accurate financial operations, processes and reporting for the entire IT portfolio.
- Develop transparent oversight of cost structures and total cost of ownership (TCO) for products and services.
- Work with technology expert teams to implement a FinOps approach to optimise cloud cost management.
- Work with IT Finance to evaluate funding requirements, prioritise investments, and adjust budgets quarterly.
- Support the strategic review cycle by assessing portfolio alignment with long-term goals and recommending adjustments to maximise ROI.
- Lead portfolio planning by coordinating with business units to review, prioritise and optimise resources for both new projects and ongoing initiatives.
- Present financial and operational portfolio performance, making strategic recommendations for resource adjustments and alignment with business goals.
- Actively participate in committees to align portfolio performance with strategic priorities and address key dependencies.
- Prepare reports that include key financial metrics such as TCO, cloud spending and resource allocation.
- Ensure comprehensive financial and operational oversight, from the project level to the broader strategic portfolio.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in project portfolio management (PPM), ideally within an IT or technology-driven environment.
- Strong track record of successfully overseeing large, complex project portfolios that align with organisational strategy.
- Proven experience managing a diverse portfolio, including Run-Grow-Transform initiatives.
- Significant experience working closely with finance teams or directly managing project finances, including budget forecasting, cost control and resource allocation.
- Strong history of collaboration with IT and business stakeholders.
- Experience engaging with senior leaders and steering committees, preparing impactful reports and presenting portfolio performance insights.
- Demonstrated experience in assessing and managing risk across multiple projects.
- Expertise in establishing governance frameworks and standards that support consistency, transparency and accountability across the portfolio.
- Ability to connect IT portfolio decisions with organisational objectives.
- Strong business acumen for understanding and interpreting the broader market context.
- Ability to communicate clearly in English with a range of audiences.
- Ability to craft compelling narratives around project outcomes and portfolio insights.
- Powerful storytelling skills and experience delivering presentations to executive leadership.
- Strong analytical abilities to manage and interpret complex financial and operational data.
- Proven ability to align portfolio decisions with long-term organisational strategy.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey complex portfolio insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Skills
- Project portfolio management (PPM)
- Run-Grow-Transform initiatives
- Budget forecasting
- Cost control
- Resource allocation
- Risk management
- Governance frameworks
- Stakeholder management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Financial management
- FinOps
- Cloud financial management
- Analytical skills
- Strategic thinking
- Communication skills
- Storytelling
- Presentation skills
Location
- Germany
- India
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- United Kingdom
- United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Finance or a related field.
- Certifications such as PMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP or Certified ScrumMaster may be helpful, but equivalent experience is equally valued.
About the Company
- Springer Nature Technology division is a diverse group of over 700 people across our main locations in Germany, India, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- Visit group.springernature.com to learn more about who we are and what we do.