IT Portfolio & Investment Manager

Location: Copenhagen (Head Office); primary workplaces are Viby, Frederiksberg or Lisbon. The role includes approximately 20 travel days per year.

Company

hirify.global is a private equity-owned European retailer and distributor of heavy building materials, operating more than 1,150 branches and distribution centres across the Nordics, Greenland, Germany, Austria and the UK.

What you will do

• Establish and continuously improve a Group IT-wide intake process with clear entry criteria, assessment steps, roles, governance forums and decision points.
• Create and maintain a trusted overview of Group IT projects, investment requests and business-facing IT services.
• Develop and facilitate transparent prioritisation across running, improving and developing services.
• Support initiative and service owners in strengthening business cases, expected outcomes, benefits, costs and funding requirements.
• Prepare and facilitate portfolio reviews and planning activities, making decisions, dependencies and accountabilities visible.
• Provide management insight into demand, funding, portfolio risks, business value, resource capacity and service health while improving governance pragmatically.

Requirements

• Solid experience in portfolio management, enterprise PMO, programme governance or a closely related role in a complex IT organisation.
• Experience establishing or scaling intake, prioritisation and governance processes across several teams or functions.
• Strong commercial and financial understanding of business cases, costs, benefits, funding and portfolio trade-offs.
• Analytical ability to turn incomplete information into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Pragmatic and collaborative working style, with confidence to challenge priorities constructively and create progress without relying on formal authority.
• Professional fluency in English.
• Relevant higher education or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with service portfolios, service ownership or lifecycle management.
• Experience working across agile, product-oriented and plan-driven delivery environments in an international or federated organisation.

Culture & Benefits

• Meaningful mandate to build Group IT capabilities and take ownership of new governance processes.
• Visible impact on funding, capacity, demand and service commitments.
• Broad collaboration with leaders, specialists, business units and the transformation programme PMO.
• Informal, collaborative international environment with direct access to decision-makers.
• Room for professional judgement and pragmatic improvements.