Program and Portfolio Manager – Transformation Office Transversal Team (m/f/d)

Your Responsibilities:   

• Own and continuously refine a multi-year digital delivery roadmap, ensuring feasibility and sequencing across systems and platforms;

• Main task: Oversee and challenge complex, cross-platform initiatives with a strong focus on project management and technical integrity, dependencies, risk and in-time delivery;

• Act as Program Manager for selected key initiatives, with hands-on involvement in structuring, planning, and execution tracking;

• Ensure end-to-end transparency on delivery, including progress, risks, trade-offs, and value realization;

• Ensure business case validity, tracking and delivery of expected outcomes;

• Whenever needed – ensure rapid turnaround of strategic initiatives;

• Establish and drive governance structures to ensure successful delivery (including Steering Committees with executive stakeholders);

• Work closely with platform leads, architecture and engineering leads to validate solution approaches and delivery plans;

• Work closely with CIO Office incl. flexibility for ad-hoc work related to CIO priorities;

• Drive pragmatic change and adoption, ensuring initiatives land effectively in the organization.

Required key competencies and qualifications: 

• 7+ years of experience either in enterprise IT or top-tier IT consultancy;

• Proven track record of managing complex, large-scale digital programs and portfolios;

• Strong hands-on understanding of IT build and delivery (e.g. product delivery, engineering, integration, infrastructure & services, legacy modernization etc.);

• Ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous topics and turn them into actionable plans;

• Comfortable working hands-on and independently, without formal team leadership;

• Strong senior stakeholder management and reporting skills, with the ability to challenge constructively;

• Very good fluency in English (written and verbal), German preferred.

What we offer at METRO.digital?    

• Hybrid and agile work: thrive in a flexible, multicultural environment.

At METRO.digital, we promote work-life balance through a hybrid working model. You’ll be part of self-organizing, multicultural teams that collaborate in an agile setup.

• People development: when you grow so do we!

We want you to become the best version of yourself with individual and company-wide programs and trainings for people development. Focused among other on development, leadership, appreciation ... it´s time to upskill your career.

• Support with individual solutions: we are people-caring!

We offer support whenever you need it - at every stage of your professional journey.

Want to know more about all our benefits? Discover more here. 

Let´s connect soon. Apply for the role now!    

Position grade within our career framework: Project Manager Grade 3 (Md9).