Head Of Portfolio Management Excellence

TL;DR

Head of Portfolio Management Excellence: Leading the end-to-end Portfolio Management capability across the organization with an accent on strategic alignment, value delivery, and risk management. Focus on driving portfolio-level decision-making, improving portfolio management processes, and building a strong portfolio management community.

Location: Berlin, London

Company

hirify.global opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals.

What you will do

• Own and lead the end-to-end Portfolio Management capability across the organisation.
• Translate enterprise, business, and IT strategy into a coherent, balanced, and prioritised portfolio.
• Design and embed portfolio cadences that support annual business reviews and quarterly business reviews (QBRs), enabling more frequent and evidence-based investment steering.
• Define and own the portfolio data model, ensuring consistent, high-quality data across initiatives.
• Establish a clear set of portfolio KPIs and success metrics.
• Drive continuous improvement of portfolio management processes, practices, and ways of working.

Requirements

• Significant experience in Portfolio Management within a complex, enterprise environment.
• Proven track record of shaping, optimising, and governing large, diverse portfolios.
• Strong strategic thinking combined with data-driven decision-making.
• Experience designing portfolio metrics, dashboards, and executive insights.
• Deep understanding of portfolio governance and investment decision frameworks.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and facilitate difficult trade-off discussions.

Nice to have

• Experience evolving portfolio management maturity in an organisation strong in delivery but weak at portfolio level.
• Exposure to Lean Portfolio Management, product-based funding, or outcome-oriented models.
• Experience with portfolio management tooling and analytics platforms.
• Background in IT, Digital, or Technology-led portfolios.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed cross-functional team with different nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels.
• Culture that encourages new ideas and innovation but within the boundaries of the company guidelines that best suit the vision and strategy that hirify.global has defined.
• Strategic, outcome-focused mindset.
• Pragmatic change agent with a continuous improvement ethos.
• Passionate about developing people, communities, and capabilities.