Senior Portfolio Manager

Job Description

Join our dynamic team as a Senior Portfolio Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping and optimizing our Engineering & Quality strategic project portfolio. Your structured approach to managing multi-dimensional priorities will simplify complexities and drive innovation and sustainable growth! 

Core Responsibilities

• Portfolio Strategy & Optimization: Drive the development and ongoing optimization of the E&Q strategic project portfolio, ensuring alignment with business objectives and maintaining an optimal balance of priorities and resources.  
• Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Design, implement, and continuously improve performance dashboards to track key portfolio metrics and enable data-driven decision-making.  
• Project Intake & Prioritization: Partner on and refine the end-to-end project intake and prioritization framework, ensuring a focused, transparent, and strategic approach to portfolio management.  
• Change Management: Facilitate change management within the E&Q portfolio, engaging partners proactively to ensure smooth transitions and organizational alignment.  
• Governance & Decision Framework: Define and enforce governance structures, decision-making processes, and portfolio management standards that ensure accountability, consistency, and transparency.  
• Operational Excellence & Best Practices: Provide expert guidance and operational support to project and PMO teams, embedding portfolio management guidelines and fostering continuous improvement.  
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the central coordination point for local E&Q PMOs, facilitating clear communication, alignment, and strategic prioritization across functions. 

Play Your Part In Our Team Succeeding

In the Engineering & Quality Strategic Projects & Portfolio Management team, we lead a diverse and ambitious portfolio of strategic, multi-functional initiatives focused on sustainability, innovation, and the development of new technologies and play experiences. 

Do You Have What It Takes?

• Proven Experience: Demonstrated success in managing complex, cross-functional project portfolios within technical, engineering, or quality-driven environments, ensuring consistent alignment with strategic business objectives.  
• Analytical Excellence: Advanced analytical skills with a proven ability to design, develop, and maintain portfolio performance dashboards, enabling data-driven insights into key performance indicators, project health, and resource utilization.  
• Methodological Expertise: Deep understanding of portfolio and program management frameworks (e.g., PMI, MoP) and related tools, supporting continuous improvement, effective governance, and strategic portfolio optimization.  
• Partner Engagement: Exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building skills that foster trust, collaboration, and alignment across diverse global stakeholder groups, ensuring clarity and cohesion in decision-making.  
• Communication: Clear, confident, and proactive communicator with the ability to translate complex information into actionable insights, driving engagement and multi-functional collaboration at all levels of the organization. 

Please note that we do not have relocation support available for this position. 

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

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