As a Lean Portfolio Officer you will support the entire portfolio of Financial Systems’ initiatives by ensuring strategic alignment and efficient flow across all stages in their life cycle including initiation, demand management and successful delivery. As part of the Portfolio Management team, you will foster collaboration across the whole organization. Building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships is critical as this position will work with various international teams every day.
You maintain the portfolio overview and ensure that the Financial Systems organization and leadership are advised - using the right tools and templates. You will provide standardized quality-assured information that enable data-driven decisions to optimally own the portfolio of initiatives. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment. This means working with high-level pivotal initiatives, but also roll up your sleeves, dig in and help lead change on a day-to-day basis.
The position requires a hands-on professional with good analytical skills and a high level of energy and flexibility to get things done and thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented product development environment.
Your responsibilities:
Portfolio Demand Management and Roadmap
- Support the Financial Systems demand of initiatives ensuring alignment around strategic objectives, value based prioritization and enabling optimal flow across the portfolio funnel
- Support the annual- and quarterly planning cycles of the Financial Systems portfolio in line with the defined capacity planning process
- Support in maintaining a consolidated initiative roadmap for Financial Systems
- Support adherence and adoption of the defined Governance model and its respective artifacts
Portfolio Performance Reporting
- Provide insights (dashboards/reports) around portfolio metrics focused on optimizing the flow of value within the portfolio of Financial System
- Research and build insights for stakeholders information needs e.g. portfolio status reports
- Independently use quantitative and qualitative data to support portfolio decision making and tell a clear story with the data/ insights
- Support a continuous learning and improvement cycle by evaluating the impact of data-driven portfolio decisions
Stakeholder Management
- Prepare and when applicable conduct regular meetings and reviews with product teams, executives, business stakeholders and relevant teams to understand, define value, assess impact and prioritize demand of financial systems initiatives
- Support the preparation of regular meetings (Portfolio Sync, Quarterly and Annual planning sessions) with the senior executive bodies to make decisions and/or inform about progress on portfolio initiatives
- Support the Initiative Owners and relevant stakeholders with extracting the most value out of the portfolio processes and ways of working
- Build and maintain connections with diverse teams, across the organization and outside
Lean Portfolio Management Capability Development
- Support the continuous improvement of Lean Portfolio Management capability
Requirements and experience:
- Experienced professional with 5+ years in similar positions (within Portfolio - or Lean Portfolio Management, Project/Program Management, Agile coaching) preferably within fast-paced technology organizations
- Experience in an online/ecommerce, payment processing, and/or financial systems is preferred
- Knowledge in the Atlassian suite (e.g. Jira (and its portfolio management plugins, e.g. Jira Align, Jira Advanced Roadmanps, Confluence)
- Experience in (lean) portfolio management - supporting demands through their selection, prioritization and planning; portfolio roadmapping; creation of portfolio dashboards and reporting based on portfolio metrics; ability to interpret portfolio performance data
- Proven working experience within an international environment - working both with Agile methodologies and Waterfall project management. Agile certification (e.g. Lean Portfolio Management) and/or Project Management are preferred
- Proven track record to succeed in sophisticated organizations
- Ability to communicate effectively to business and technical stakeholders and drive effective discussions about prioritization and value of portfolio initiatives
- Contributing to a high scale, complex, world world-class product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travellers worldwide
- Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
- We aim to empower you to do your best work, whether in the office or at home, as well as 20 days per year to work from abroad with our Work from Abroad benefit* (subject to terms and conditions)
- Opportunity to utilise technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
- Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
- Technical, behavioural and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
- Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)
- Parental Leave: From day one of your employment with us, we offer 22 weeks’ fully paid leave for all new parents, regardless of gender or the way you become a parent
- Care Leave: 10 days’ fully paid leave per year for colleagues who are caring for ill family members.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com
Pre-Employment Screening
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
