NATO offers you more than a job. It gives you a mission: building peace and security for one billion people in Europe and North America. The NATO Communications & Information Agency is leading NATO’s Digital Transformation.  Based in Brussels, Belgium, the Senior Portfolio Manager will be responsible for managing business intake, monitoring  the execution of NATO Headquarter (NHQ) Portfolio as well as building long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders.

Who we are:

For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because due of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.

The role:

The Senior Portfolio Manager will be key member of Portfolio, Programme, Project Management (P3M) Branch and will have responsibility of overseeing the execution of the NATO Headquarters portfolio of projects and services which are delivered by the NCI Agency.  This highly visible role will engage and influence various stakeholders of NATO organisations and Nations located in the NATO Headquarters to capture and assess stakeholder requirements, prioritize business intake and monitor, report on associated projects until delivery.  The Senior Portfolio Manager will have four key areas of focus:

• Portfolio Management
• Portfolio, Programme and Project Support
• Demand Management
• Relationship Management

Working within an international team the Senior Portfolio Manager will monitor, track and report on the execution of the portfolio requirements, including leading the routine and ad-hoc portfolio reviews and contributing to the quarterly portfolio reviews chaired by the Chief Operating Office.

For a full list of duties of this unique post, you can review the full job description here via the NCI Agency career page.

About you:              

You easily establish good relationship and are able to relate to people at all levels.  You are eager and able to produce new ideas, approaches and insights to deliver innovate solutions to problems.  Able to adapt to changing circumstances you can manage ambiguity, accept new ideas and change initiatives, further to this you have:

• • At least 3 years of relevant experience in the development, planning, acquisition, delivery of C4ISR services, systems and/or solutions, or elements thereof
  • A recognised programme / project management training and experience in Programme / Project Management of major communication and/or command and control/management information system for a large organisation.
  • Experience in applying management techniques in the acquisition / delivery of communication and information systems / services
  • Proven ability to express oneself clearly and concisely in writing and to be able to present information in a format which is easily understood by all levels and nationalities. Public speaking skills and ability to give clear and concise briefings on the Agency’s plans and programmes
  • Ideally a recognised formal Project Management qualification, such as PRINCE2, MSP or PMP
  • Experience in Customer Relationship Management
  • Experience in multi-discipline engineering environment

What do we offer?

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history
• Initial three-year contract with a competitive monthly tax-free salary of 7,887 EUR
• Additional monthly sums added to your salary for families and children, as well as additional financial assistance for education for your children (where applicable)
• Excellent private health insurance scheme
• Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays
• Retirement Pension Plan

To learn more about NCI Agency, our mission and goals, take a few moments to visit our website.

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