Interim Lead IT Project and Portfolio Management

Project overview

As an interim lead, you will manage IT project and portfolio management during a transition phase.

Profile of the suited interim professional:

• Take over and coordinate existing portfolio steering
• Lead regular meetings, coordination, and decision-making processes
• Consolidate projects and demands in Jira to create a viable basis for decisions
• Create transparency regarding status, priorities, risks, capacities, dependencies, and budget impacts
• Prepare and moderate portfolio and prioritization decisions
• Track decisions, actions, and escalations
• Develop alternative courses of action in case of conflicting goals, resource bottlenecks, or significant deviations
• Further develop existing governance structures and identify optimization potential in processes and data quality
• Consolidate portfolio information for forecast, budget, and annual planning
• Process selected IT demands as well as smaller projects or sub-projects
• Proven experience in comparable interim, takeover, or stabilization phases
• Many years of experience in IT project, program, or portfolio management with lead or portfolio responsibility
• Solid knowledge in capacity-oriented prioritization of demands, budget and annual planning, as well as in handling Jira-based project and demand structures
• Ability to combine overarching management responsibility with own operational processing of selected demands and smaller projects
• Routine in stakeholder management within matrix organizations as well as strong skills in management communication, moderation, and escalation handling
• Structured, analytical, and self-reliant way of working, pragmatically and results-oriented, combined with assertiveness even without disciplinary authority
• Fluent German and English skills

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 6 months
• Location: Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony, Bremen, DE
• Languages: German