Arbetsbeskrivning

Nordic Investin is recruiting a Portfolio Manager Strategic Initiatives on behalf of one of our partner companies. You create pace through clarity when workstreams, decisions and dependencies must move as one, and you surface risk early.

The partner is strengthening its capability in portfolio leadership that aligns investment capacity and strategic outcomes. You will connect portfolio planning, prioritisation and business cases while ensuring that capacity and governance receive appropriate discipline. The aim is practical progress that colleagues can use, leaders can evaluate and the organisation can sustain.

Project leadership connects outcomes, plans, risks and decisions. Success is controlled change the organisation can sustain.

You will work across business, technology, suppliers and operations. The partner expects shared priorities, visible decisions and an adaptable delivery model.

This role calls for hands-on leadership and reliable follow-through. You are expected to make trade-offs visible, recognise when a decision needs wider expertise and move work forward without creating unnecessary process.

Own the practical direction for portfolio leadership that aligns investment capacity and strategic outcomes.

Translate goals and constraints into a clear approach for portfolio planning and prioritisation.

Establish useful standards, routines or decision artefacts around business cases.

Coordinate stakeholders and dependencies affecting capacity.

Use evidence and measurable outcomes to improve governance.

Strengthen knowledge sharing and sustainable ownership through executive reporting.

Relevant experience delivering portfolio leadership that aligns investment capacity and strategic outcomes in a demanding environment.

Strong working knowledge of portfolio planning and prioritisation.

Practical experience applying business cases and capacity.

Ability to assess priorities, risks and trade-offs involving governance.

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 corporate strategy and transformation portfolios.

Exposure to executive reporting in a cross-functional or multi-team environment.

Swedish language skills or experience working across Nordic organisations.

A background that can succeed here

Your background may be consulting, a transformation office or complex delivery. Show how you controlled uncertainty and guided difficult decisions. Direct experience of portfolio leadership that aligns investment capacity and strategic outcomes is valuable, while adjacent experience counts when it shows transferable judgement.

What makes the opportunity interesting

The assignment offers visible responsibility, access to decision makers and room to shape a purposeful delivery model. The focus on portfolio leadership that aligns investment capacity and strategic outcomes gives the opportunity a clear mission and room to influence priorities and success measures.

The exact partner, employment model, compensation, start date and working arrangement will be explained openly during the process. Nordic Investin will make sure you understand the opportunity before asking you to make a decision.

The recruitment conversation

Nordic Investin will focus on decisions you have made: the context, alternatives, result and what you would change today. You will also have room to ask direct questions and test whether the role, mandate and partner environment are right for you.

Apply with your CV or LinkedIn profile and a short note about a relevant programme, project or transformation you helped improve. Nordic Investin welcomes different routes into the profession and assesses evidence, judgement and potential alongside formal titles.