About this role
<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Function</b></H2> </div><div><p>The <strong>IT Portfolio & Project Manager</strong> ensures that complete, reliable, and actionable IT portfolio information is available to enable high-quality reporting and decision-making across Group and Local entities.</p> <p> </p> <p>Beyond transparency, the role actively contributes to delivery performance by identifying cross-project dependencies, resolving unclear integration points, and driving alignment across IT domains to reduce the risk of non-delivery.</p> <p> </p> <p>Operating in close partnership with Group Controlling (GC), you will ensure that the IT reality behind portfolio reporting is accurate, coherent, and fully understood.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Ensure reliable and up-to-date portfolio data across IT projects</li> <li>Align and validate inputs from different IT teams and resolve inconsistencies, missing information, structural reporting gaps</li> <li>Support portfolio reporting for leadership (EXCO, ...) with clear insights, context and delivery status</li> <li>Identify and manage dependencies between projects, programs and entities</li> <li>Detect and address integration gaps and unclear responsibilities</li> <li>Anticipate delivery risks and engage stakeholders to mitigate them</li> <li>Ensure alignment between business priorities and IT roadmaps</li> <li>Provide visibility on demand, prioritization, and trade-offs</li> <li>Challenge inconsistencies and support better decision-making across the portfolio</li> <li>Facilitate collaboration across teams to improve overall delivery performance</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Your Profile</b></H2> </div><div><p> </p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Master’s degree in IT, Economics or engineering, or equivalent through experience</li> <li>Strong analytical skills, able to identify patterns, dependencies, and risks across projects </li> <li>Experience in IT project, program, or portfolio management</li> <li>Ability to work across multiple teams and domains (IT, business, finance)</li> <li>Strong coordination and stakeholder management skills</li> <li>Ability to influence without direct authority</li> <li>Structured, proactive, and solution-oriented mindset</li> <li>Comfortable working with both senior leadership and delivery teams</li> <li>Strong communication skills, able to simplify complex situations</li> <li>Fluent in English; knowledge of Dutch, French and/or German is a plus</li> </ul> <p> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Offer</b></H2> </div><div><p> </p> <ul> <li><strong>Salary:</strong> a competitive salary package, allowance for representation expenses, year-end bonus, double vacation pay, meal vouchers (€10 per working day), eco-vouchers, sport & culture vouchers, bonuses based on individual and group results. </li> <li><strong>Insurance:</strong> group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, ambulant care insurance for the whole family and also personal accident insurance. </li> <li><strong>Vacation:</strong> You will be entitled to 20 vacation days and 5 additional vacation days, 6 local days, 4 exempt days (after 1 year of employment) and up to 5 long-service days (1 day for every 3 years in employment). </li> <li><strong>Social fund:</strong> Year-end vouchers, birth and marriage allowance. We will also cover part of the cost of glasses, a dental prosthesis or similar needs. </li> <li><strong>Communication:</strong> you will be given an iPhone, a phone subscription (for work and private use) and a laptop with internet reimbursement. </li> <li><strong>Discounts:</strong> you will enjoy a 30% discount on your gas and electricity bill. </li> <li><strong>Mobility:</strong> we will offer you a company car and public transport or a mobility budget. </li> <li><strong>Elia shares:</strong> Elia will give you the opportunity to subscribe to shares with a discount of 16.66% on the average share price. </li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Location</b></H2> </div><div><div>You mainly work from Brussels, Emperor (close to central station), with the possibility of teleworking and regular travel to Berlin.</div></div></div></div>