As part of Beiersdorf Shared Services, our IT Strategy, Architecture & Portfolio function plays a vital role in ensuring strategic alignment between business needs and IT capabilities across global brands like NIVEA, Eucerin, and Hansaplast. We enable value-driven decision-making by overseeing the entire demand lifecycle, ensuring transparency, prioritization, and delivery of impactful initiatives across the IT portfolio.

To strengthen this mission, we are looking for a Senior Portfolio & Demand Manager (all genders) who brings strategic foresight, operational excellence, and a collaborative mindset to manage a dynamic global project portfolio and drive business value.
In this role, you will:

• Act as a strategic partner to business units and IT teams by translating business goals into structured, prioritized demand pipelines and actionable project roadmaps.
• Drive the development of a sustainable execution framework by integrating portfolio management, value realization, demand planning, and enterprise architecture—ensuring cohesive, forward-looking delivery of initiatives.
• Champion a strong value mindset, ensuring that all initiatives are aligned with business outcomes and contribute measurable value to the organization.
• Support development and implementation of value measurement frameworks for transparency and accountability in IT investments
• Manage the global IT project portfolio, ensuring transparency, consistency, and alignment with strategic objectives across all business functions.
• Establish and maintain effective governance structures and best practices for efficient and standardized portfolio and demand management.
• Lead and continuously evolve the end-to-end demand management process, from intake and evaluation to prioritization, governance, and delivery tracking.
• Support cross-functional steering committees and decision-making bodies by delivering clear, data-driven portfolio insights, reports, and recommendations.
• Partner with Finance and Controlling teams to enable sound investment planning, accurate forecasting, and benefit tracking across IT initiatives.
• Cultivate a positive and structured change management culture, enabling smooth transitions, stakeholder engagement, and adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Continuously improve portfolio and demand management processes by leveraging stakeholder feedback, digital tools, and automation to increase transparency, agility, and value delivery.