R&D Portfolio & PMO Lead (MedTech)

Location: Veenendaal, Netherlands. Hybrid working with at least four days per week on location.

Company

hirify.global develops precision radiation medicine and advanced radiotherapy solutions used by healthcare providers across more than 130 countries.

What you will do

• Establish and continuously improve a practical PMO operating model for Brachytherapy R&D.
• Improve portfolio visibility across priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, financials, and delivery commitments.
• Provide decision-ready scenarios, trade-offs, project-health indicators, and portfolio insights to R&D leadership.
• Challenge assumptions and drive recovery plans when projects move away from agreed scope, timelines, budgets, or outcomes.
• Coach Project Managers and sponsors while building a Project Management community of practice.
• Improve portfolio data, planning, forecasting, reporting, and the practical use of SAFe/Agile, hybrid, and traditional stage-gate methods.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in project, program, portfolio, or PMO leadership.
• Experience establishing or improving a PMO, portfolio governance model, or Project Management capability.
• Strong knowledge of portfolio prioritization, capacity and demand planning, financial governance, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Experience working in complex product-development environments.
• Ability to work effectively across SAFe/Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery models.
• Strong influencing and change-management skills, including the ability to constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
• Experience with portfolio and Project Management tools such as Planview, Microsoft Project, Jira, or BigPicture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to bring clarity and direction when priorities compete, information is incomplete, and decisions require careful trade-offs.

Nice to have

• Dutch language skills.
• Experience in medical devices or other complex, high-reliability industries such as automotive, aerospace, industrial technology, or consumer electronics.

Culture & Benefits

• Senior individual-contributor role with direct access to senior R&D leadership and an opportunity to build the PMO capability.
• International and innovative work environment focused on improving cancer care.
• 27 paid vacation days plus 13 ATV days per year.
• Global bonus plan, travel allowance, Metalektro pension fund with contributions shared 50/50, and insurance discounts.
• Staff association and tax benefits for fitness-centre memberships and bicycle purchases.
• Initially no direct team management; impact is expected through expertise, credibility, and cross-functional alignment.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV in English via the Apply button.
• Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis; the local application deadline is to be confirmed.