INTERIM IT - Demand / Portfolio Manager

Project overview

Our client is looking for an experienced Interim Team Lead PMO / IT Demand & Portfolio Manager to cover a vacancy. The focus is on the pragmatic qualification and management of new IT demands, as well as ensuring structured portfolio and project management in a dynamic mid-sized company environment.

Framework Conditions

Project Context

The IT department is responsible for a broad portfolio of transformation, digitalization, infrastructure, and business projects. In addition to ensuring transparent portfolio and prioritization processes, a special focus is placed on qualifying new project ideas and IT demands, including in the context of SaaS implementations with external implementation partners.

• Start: possible at short notice
• Duration: 3–6 months with option for extension
• Utilization: 4–5 days per week
• Location: Hybrid (Remote with occasional on-site presence)

Responsibilities

• Taking over the functional lead role for PMO, IT Demand, and Portfolio Management
• Qualifying new project demands from the initial idea to decision readiness
• Recording, structuring, and evaluating functional and technical requirements
• Managing and prioritizing projects and demands in Jira
• Ensuring transparency of priorities, capacities, risks, and dependencies
• Preparing and moderating portfolio and prioritization decisions
• Further developing existing governance, reporting, and demand processes
• Establishing and ensuring high reporting quality, including dashboarding in Jira
• Managing and coordinating external implementation partners within the scope of SaaS and IT projects
• Supporting budget, forecast, and annual planning
• Independently handling selected IT demands as well as smaller projects or sub-projects
• Ensuring a handover-ready work status at all times

Requirements

Does the project sound interesting?

Please send me the following information:

• Several years of experience in IT project, demand, or portfolio management in a mid-sized company environment
• Experience in interim mandates, takeover situations, or stabilization phases
• Demonstrable practical experience in classic demand management and the qualification of new project initiatives
• Very good Jira skills, including reporting, dashboard creation, and process management
• Hands-on mentality with the willingness to contribute operationally
• Experience in managing external implementation partners
• Experience with SaaS implementations and corresponding decision-making and implementation processes
• Sound knowledge of portfolio, capacity, and prioritization management
• Strong stakeholder management at management level
• Structured, pragmatic, and results-oriented approach to work
• Earliest possible start date
• Availability per week
• Current utilization
• Hourly rate (Remote / On-site)
• Current profile / CV
• Brief assessment of your suitability

Project details

• Start: ab sofort
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Bremen, Deutschland, DE
• Languages: German