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> </p> <p>As a member of the Portfolio Management Office, you will oversee part of the investment portfolio, act as the single source of truth for internal stakeholders, analyse and evaluate the portfolio, handle resource capacity planning, and prepare and monitor portfolio management (the decision-making committee is responsible for portfolio management itself).</p> <p> </p> <p>Main tasks are:</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Single source of truth</strong></p> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li>You will be responsible for the daily follow-up and monitoring of your assigned part of the investment portfolio in order to amass a comprehensive overview of the status, problems, risks and risk-mitigating actions.</li> <li>You will serve as the single point of contact dealing with requests for information or clarification from internal stakeholders.</li> <li>You will be the owner of the metadata linked to the programmes in the part of the portfolio assigned to you. These metadata demarcate the boundaries of the portfolio to which the programme belongs.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Gatekeeper</strong></p> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li>You will check and ensure that programmes satisfy the requirements needed to move on to the next phase in the stage-gate process (results, checklists, etc.).</li> <li>You will decide whether a programme is ready to appear before the committee that decides on the transition to the next phase.</li> <li>Once a programme has moved to the next phase, you will supervise and monitor the smooth transition from the programme phase in the IT tools, ensuring that the metadata relating to the programmes are accurate at all times.</li> <li>You will be responsible for supervising and checking that the programme baselines have been properly recorded and frozen in the various phases.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Portfolio analysis and assessment</strong></p> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li>You will conduct cross-programme analyses, uncover risks and problems at portfolio level, and monitor whether these risks and problems are addressed appropriately and promptly across the portfolio.</li> <li>You will build contingency reserves into the overall portfolio.</li> <li>You will conduct risk assessments for the portfolio using probabilistic simulations of different scenarios.</li> <li>You will define and implement indicators to gauge portfolio performance.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Portfolio arbitration</strong></p> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li>You will work with the rest of the Portfolio Management Office team to devise the annual arbitration proposal (i.e. a proposal concerning the composition of the portfolio for the next four years, to be approved by the decision-making committee). This proposal takes into account the different aspects of portfolio planning: maximising business and societal value, optimising the use of resources, satisfying legal and regulatory restrictive conditions. The proposal contains the necessary risk analyses and is supported by the involvement of the necessary internal stakeholders. </li> <li>Once the arbitration decision has been made regarding the portfolio, you will ensure and verify that all actions needed to proceed to arbitration are carried out across the entire portfolio.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b></b></H2> </div><div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Description</b></H2> </div><div><p> </p> <p><strong>Portfolio overviews and reporting</strong><br>You will compile the portfolio overviews and draft reports to provide the various stakeholders and decision-makers (Investment Portfolio Committee, Executive Committee, Board of Directors, regulators, Development Plans, Business Plan, Infrastructure Management Team) with the information they need.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Portfolio resource planning</strong></p> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li>You will consolidate and analyse the resource needs for your part of the portfolio (staffing, cuts, procurement needs/market capacity).</li> <li>You will proactively highlight resource constraints/problems/planning conflicts, identify solutions and pass on problems when necessary.</li> <li>You will maintain continuous dialogue with functional management, Human Resources and Purchasing to provide feedback on short- and long-term staffing needs and ensure that these needs are met.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Definition of portfolio management principles</strong><br>Together with the Head of the Portfolio Management Office, you will actively help define, develop and continuously improve the portfolio management principles.</p> <p> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b></b></H2> </div><div></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> <li>You have a Master's degree in both technical and economic fields or equivalent experience.</li> <li>You have five years' experience in relevant domains.</li> <li>You are analytical, curious and able to work independently.</li> <li>You have an excellent knowledge of IT such as excel, Power Query, Power BI.</li> <li>You can collect and analyse data from many different stakeholders and systems.</li> <li>You have the credibility and authority needed to work with managers and have affinity for technical subjects in order to challenge the technical content of investment portfolio or projects budget items.</li> <li>Being familiar with engineering designs is a plus.</li> <li>You are familiar with portfolio and project management methods.</li> <li>Fluency in English and either Dutch or French is mandatory, along with at least a basic working knowledge of the other language.</li> <li>You are a proactive, strong communicator and team player.</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>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, year-end vouchers as well as bonuses based on individual and group results. </li> <li><strong>Insurance:</strong> group insurance, hospitalisation insurance and ambulant care insurance for the whole family. </li> <li><strong>Vacation:</strong> you will be entitled to 20 vacation days, 12 additional vacation days and 3 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>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>Mobility:</strong> we will offer you a company car and public transport or a mobility budget. </li> <li><strong>Interest subsidies:</strong> after you have been with Elia for 5 years, Elia Engineering will be able to offer you a subsidy to reduce the interest charges on your mortgage loan. This will only be possible if the mortgage loan was taken out when you were already an Elia employee. </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><p> </p> <p>Léon Monnoyerkaai 3, 1000 Brussel</p> <p>This office is easily accessible by public transport, a 5-minute walk from Schaarbeek station.</p> <p>We also operate a hybrid work policy that allows you to combine working in the office and at home.</p></div></div></div>