Portfolio Governance Lead

Nordic Investin Group • Stockholm, ME

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About The Position

Nordic Investin is recruiting a Portfolio Governance Lead on behalf of one of our partner companies. This role is crucial for strengthening the capability in portfolio governance, aiming to improve priorities, decisions, and delivery confidence. The lead will be responsible for connecting portfolio intake, prioritization, and capacity, while ensuring discipline in standards and dashboards. The objective is to deliver progress that is usable by colleagues and evaluable by leaders. Project leadership is key, connecting outcomes, plans, risks, and decisions to achieve controlled change that the organization can adopt and sustain.

Requirements

• Relevant experience delivering portfolio governance that improves priorities, decisions and delivery confidence in a demanding environment.
• Strong working knowledge of portfolio intake and prioritisation.
• Practical experience applying capacity and standards.
• Ability to assess risk, priorities and trade-offs involving dashboards.
• Evidence of clear stakeholder communication and dependable end-to-end ownership.
• Professional English and the judgement to work with sensitive or business-critical information.
• Experience that would add value: Experience from transformation offices or multi-business organisations.
• Exposure to executive forums in a cross-functional environment.
• Swedish language skills or experience working across Nordic organisations.
• Background may be consulting, a transformation office or complex operational delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to control uncertainty and guide difficult decisions.
• Direct experience of portfolio governance that improves priorities, decisions and delivery confidence is valuable, while adjacent experience counts when it shows transferable judgement.

Nice To Haves

• Experience from transformation offices or multi-business organisations.
• Exposure to executive forums in a cross-functional environment.
• Swedish language skills or experience working across Nordic organisations.

Responsibilities

• Own the practical direction for portfolio governance that improves priorities, decisions and delivery confidence.
• Translate goals and constraints into a clear approach for portfolio intake and prioritisation.
• Establish useful standards, routines or artefacts around capacity.
• Coordinate stakeholders and dependencies affecting standards.
• Use evidence and measurable outcomes to improve dashboards.
• Strengthen knowledge sharing, decision quality and sustainable ownership across the team.
• Create a practical delivery rhythm across workstreams with different owners and incentives.
• Ensure concise preparation, explicit dependencies and decisions recorded clearly enough to survive handovers.
• Ensure escalation brings options and consequences, not only a problem statement.
• Recognise when a decision needs wider expertise, make trade-offs visible and move work forward without creating unnecessary process.

Benefits

• The assignment offers visible responsibility, access to decision makers and room to shape a delivery model with purpose.
• The focus on portfolio governance that improves priorities, decisions and delivery confidence gives the role a clear mission and room to influence priorities and measures of success.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed