Your mission

Miele X is looking for a Portfolio Manager in our Ecommerce department. The role is part of the eCommerce Portfolio and Project Management team, and is responsible for the successful management and alignment of the ecommerce portfolio of projects and initiatives, as well as creating transparency into the status of portfolio delivery at all times. The Project Portfolio Manager will work with and advise a wide variety of stakeholders across all levels of the Miele X organization, including leadership, product management team and various ecommerce functional teams. 

• Support, challenge and advise on portfolio selection decisions by enabling informed decision making (opportunity value /opportunity cost, strategic alignment, resource enablement, risk value)
• Facilitate prioritization meetings, ensuring active participation, clear agenda, presenters are briefed, documentation is shared in advance, decisions are recorded and communicated. 
• Guide and support project and business owners with adequately defining and describing projects to enable prioritization.  
• Enable a single source of reporting of project statuses across the key organizational initiatives 
• Monitor the expected and delivered value of the portfolio, progress against targets and enable corrective actions to facilitate target delivery. Maintain the performance bridge model to support decision making and value maximalization in overall business alignment
• Advise on portfolio balancing and risk management / mitigation, including alignment with OKR framework
• Portfolio governance 
• Keep connected with all key stakeholders across the organization to keep a pulse on the delivery of priority projects, potential risks and issues, and impact across the project portfolio 
• Maintain portfolio documentation, ensuring transparency and visibility across the organization
• Be an advocate for portfolio management as a change agent across the wider organization 
• Project Portfolio Manager drives the development and communication of portfolio management processes and tools across the organization. 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, preferably in a Business or Technology related field of study required. 
• Previous experience of program or project portfolio management, with ability to keep oversight across a board spectrum of initiatives.
• Knowledge of ecommerce and software development processes is a distinct advantage.
• Exceptional communication skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills, and focus on building long term working relationships with colleagues across the organization, ideally in corporate or complex international environments.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to work with little or no supervision.