Program and Portfolio Manager – Transformation Office Transversal Team

About this role

Your Responsibilities: Own and continuously refine a multi-year digital delivery roadmap , ensuring feasibility and sequencing across systems and platforms; Main task: Oversee and challenge complex, cross-platform initiatives with a strong focus on project management and technical integrity, dependencies, risk and in-time delivery; Act as Program Manager for selected key initiatives , with hands-on involvement in structuring, planning, and execution tracking; Ensure end-to-end transparency on delivery , including progress, risks, trade-offs, and value realization; Ensure business case validity , tracking and delivery of expected outcomes; Whenever needed – ensure rapid turnaround of strategic initiatives; Establish and drive governance structures to ensure successful delivery (including Steering Committees with executive stakeholders); Work closely with platform leads, architecture and engineering leads to validate solution approaches and delivery plans; Work closely with CIO Office incl.

flexibility for ad-hoc work related to CIO priorities; Drive pragmatic change and adoption , ensuring initiatives land effectively in the organization. Required key competencies and qualifications: 7+ years of experience either in enterprise IT or top-tier IT consultancy; Proven track record of managing complex, large-scale digital programs and portfolios; Strong hands-on understanding of IT build and delivery (e.g. product delivery, engineering, integration, infrastructure & services, legacy modernization etc.); Ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous topics and turn them into actionable plans; Comfortable working hands-on and independently , without formal team leadership; Strong senior stakeholder management and reporting skills , with the ability to challenge constructively; Very good fluency in English (written and verbal), German preferred.

What we offer at METRO.digital? Hybrid and agile work: thrive in a flexible, multicultural environment. At METRO.digital, we promote work-life balance through a hybrid working model. You’ll be part of self-organizing, multicultural teams that collaborate in an agile setup. People development: when you grow so do we! We want you to become the best version of yourself with individual and company-wide programs and trainings for people development.