Portfolio Manager

You will get approximately 900 colleagues who all believe they work at a special company. You will get the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the socially relevant theme of pensions. We ensure that your pension is well-arranged, so that you can enjoy your old age without worry.

You will get the chance to truly make a difference when it comes to sustainability, because we have been setting the tone in our business operations and our investments for years. Naturally, you will get a (flexible) workplace at our office in Amsterdam that belongs to the top 7% in the world, truly. And because you will also work from home regularly, you will receive a budget to properly equip your home workspace.

In exchange for your commitment, talent, and skills, you will receive, in addition to your salary plus a holiday allowance and a thirteenth month, 27 vacation days (based on a 36-hour contract) and a public transport card or travel expense allowance for the days you come to the office. And, not unimportantly, you will receive a good training budget so that you can continue to develop yourself. This gives you the chance to grow, within our company or beyond.

Salary per month:
Based on collective labor agreement (cao) scale 18 HAY, the range is € 7,060.37 to € 9,413.82 based on 36 hours.

At Strategy & Portfolio Management, you connect strategy, priorities, and results. Together with colleagues in strategy, performance, program management, and data & insights, you help ExCo and the domains to make evidence-based choices and steer purposefully. You help build a team in which collaboration, a sharp professional perspective, and ownership are central.

Which initiatives truly make a difference for our strategy? As a Portfolio Manager, you translate Athora's course into a coherent change portfolio and help ExCo make sharp choices. You provide organization-wide direction and advise, without taking over the execution responsibility of Agile teams, program managers, and project managers. You report to the Director Strategy & Portfolio Management.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategy and domain plans into one integral change portfolio and a multi-year roadmap;

• Assess and validate initiatives and business cases from a portfolio perspective regarding strategic value, coherence, feasibility, dependencies, capacity, and budget;

• Advise ExCo and senior management on prioritization, phasing, and resource allocation, providing clear choices and trade-offs;

• Monitor progress, coherence, and risks within the agreed frameworks and prepare timely proposals for adjustments;

• Direct, together with the PMO, the portfolio insights, reporting, and input for the quarterly performance reviews;

• Connect Director Change & IT / Change Leads, program managers, Strategy & Performance Management, Finance, and Architecture as a professional sparring partner;

• Ensure with Architecture that the portfolio aligns with architectural principles and future-proof solutions;

• Develop uniform portfolio processes and governance, with consistent information and transparent decision-making

Additionally:

• Strategic portfolio thinking: you translate the course into coherent priorities and a feasible roadmap;

• Analytical ability: you fathom complex dependencies and make choices and consequences transparent;

• Connecting and influencing: you bring domains and disciplines together and create support among senior stakeholders;

• Courage and independent judgment: you make difficult trade-offs discussable and provide clear, substantiated advice;

• Result-oriented direction and decision-making: you monitor progress and agreements and ensure reliable information, clear choices, and timely adjustment proposals.