Portfolio Manager

Do you want to be a part of the world’s leading jewellery company while putting your experience within Strategic Portfolio Management, in Digital & Technology into use? If yes, then we might have an exciting opportunity for you You will be part of an exciting and growing business area and work in an international organisation of can-do spirited, passionate, and performance-driven people. We value flexibility, an energized atmosphere and treasure our informal independent working style. You are trusted to deliver in a setting where answers are not already given but can be found in collaboration with others. 

About the Team:

In 2024, we continue establishing our Strategy, Portfolio & Planning team - a passionate team of thinkers, makers, and doers focused on enabling transparency and prioritization across Pandora’s digital portfolio. Strategy, Portfolio & Planning is a developing team, with members both in Copenhagen and Warsaw. D&T’s portfolio consists of initiatives delivered either following our agile ways of working or more traditional methods. 

We work directly with colleagues, senior stakeholders, and digital teams, ensuring we have the right level of governance in place to deliver on Pandora’s strategic themes. In a defined cadence, we ensure transparency on the work, value and performance delivered by the delivery teams.

As our new Portfolio Manager, you will have dedicated areas of responsibilities within the team. Based on your experience and best practice methods, you are expected to drive, optimize, manage and, in some cases, develop portfolio management related processes. You will work directly with stakeholders and digital teams in specific tech domains and contribute to domain portfolio review meetings, ensuring we have right level of governance in place to deliver on Pandora’s strategic themes. The Strategy, Portfolio & Planning team collaborates closely with our global colleagues.

Your role as a Portfolio Manager:

• Drive lean portfolio management processes spanning from strategic direction over funding to delivery and outcome measuring.
• Ensure the right level of governance is in place—prioritizing initiatives that align to Pandora’s overall strategic themes.
• Work closely with Delivery Directors to ensure consistent and effective delivery across the entire portfolio.
• Drive the optimization and simplification of standard processes through tweaking and rethinking existing processes.
• Drive transparency and prioritization of initiatives, guiding our delivery domains and teams in taking the best decisions for Pandora.
• As this is a senior member within the team, you are expected to support and mentor less experienced colleagues ensuring we succeed as a team.

What is needed to succeed:

• +7 years experience from a PMO or Portfolio Management function, supporting a complex and large portfolio.
• +3 years experience delivering agile and waterfall projects as a project manager.
• Proven track record of successfully driving a complex portfolio of initiatives across diverse teams and functions.
• Proven track record of successfully driving portfolio risks and dependency as a strategic enabler to benefit realization.
• Experience with SAFe or other scaled agile setups in tech organizations larger than 200 people.
• Experience in developing and implementing processes and the supporting tools.
• Excellent at communication and stakeholder management
• Structured with an operational and can-do mind-set.
• Adaptable in a fast paced and ever-changing environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, e.g. PowerPoint and Excel  

Preferable if your experience includes one or more of the following:

• Experience from hybrid setups (Agile/Waterfall) - could be from a transition period.
• Understanding of financial terminology and monthly / quarterly / yearly processes
• Experience working with complex system integration projects.
• Experience with Jira and PowerBI
• UPM experience

Did we get your attention?

We hope you got all your questions answered and feel confident applying for this position, however if you have more questions regarding the position, please contact:

Blazej Miernik - Global Tech Recruiter

If you see yourself in the position and would like to become a part of Pandora’s future, please do not hesitate to apply. We look forward to hearing from you

We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about Pandora on our corporate site www.pandoragroup.com.

Icing on the cake

You will be working out of our beautiful Head Office in Copenhagen V, established in 2016 and designed to unite and inspire our teams. Besides our beautiful interior design we are also proud of our LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design. This means that we use as few natural resources as possible and that we use them with respect. The result is a professional and dynamic space that is unique, comfortable and inspirational – and delivers a true Pandora experience to anyone who works here or comes to visit.

About Pandora

Established in 1982, Pandora designs, manufactures and markets hand-finished jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. Pandora’s products are available in more than 100 countries on six continents through more than 6,500 points of sale, including around 2,500 concept stores.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 32,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery at two LEED certified facilities in Thailand, using mainly recycled silver and gold. The company plans to be carbon neutral by 2025 and has joined the Science Based Targets initiative to reduce emissions across its full value chain. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated a revenue of DKK 28.1 billion in 2023. 

At Pandora, we believe that creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and reflecting societal diversity in our customer engagement is essential to delivering on our company purpose: to give a voice to people’s loves. We dedicate ourselves to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and diversity where everyone feels respected and valued.