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Head Project, Service and Product Management (NS) PORTUGAL - 11 Dec

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Company
Park Lane Recruitment
Location
België Belgium
Posted
10 months ago
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Job description

Deadline Date: Thursday 11 December 2025

Requirement Title: Head Project, Service and Product Management

Location: Oeiras, Portugal

Full time on-site: Yes

Not to Exceed: 99 Euro

Total Scope of the request (hours): 836

Required Start Date: 06 January 2026

End Contract Date: 31 December 2026

Required Security Clearance: NATO Secret

Specific Working Conditions: Normal office enviroment

Please do NOT apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
  1. Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
  2. Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
  3. Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Any applications that do NOT meet all the above - and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV - will be deleted.
Duties and Role:
Strategic planning
  • Develops, communicates, implements and reviews the processes which embed strategic management in the operational management of the organisation.
  • Leads and manages the creation or review of a strategy that meets the requirements of the business.
  • Sets policies, standards, and guidelines for how the organisation conducts strategy development and planning.
Specialist advice:
  • Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations.
  • Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
  • Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
  • Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.
Organisational facilitation:
  • Facilitates workgroups to deliver defined goals and outcomes.
  • Provides support, guidance and suggestions to workgroups and teams to learn collaborative problem solving and improve their team performance.
  • Creates shared responsibilities and sustainable agreements with the team
  • Implements and improves agreed team principles, practices, processes & ceremonies.
  • Recognises and works with the strengths and constraints of team dynamics.
Resourcing:
  • Plans and manages the acquisition and deployment of resources to meet specific needs and ongoing demand.
  • Defines and manages the implementation of resourcing processes and tools.
  • Advises on available options and customises resourcing approach to meet requirements.
  • Adheres to standards, statutory or external regulations and codes of practice and ensures compliance.
  • Engages with external parties in support of resourcing plans.
  • Measures effectiveness of resourcing processes and implements improvements.
Stakeholder relationship management:
  • Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.
  • Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables.
  • Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders.
  • Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.
  • Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.
  • Facilitates business decision-making processes.
  • Captures and disseminates technical and business information.
Financial Risk Management:
  • Updates and implements improvements to risk assessment and management methods.
  • Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of alternative risk management approaches.
  • Recommends risk assessment procedures and techniques based on organisational need.
  • Consults on a variety of risk assessment approaches and applications.
  • Evaluates, recommends, and justifies optimum risk management scenarios.
  • Advises others on a variety of risk and reward factors and their relationships.
Requirements:
  • NATO Secret security clearance
  • A Master's degree at a nationally recognized/certified University in a related discipline and 5 years post-related experience. Or a Bachelor's degree with 8 years post related experience.
  • A minimum of 4 years' experience in managing products
  • A minimum of 2 years' experience in managing projects or services
  • A minimum of 2 years' experience in line management of product, project or service managers
  • Experience in customer engagement within large, complex organisations
Training/Certifications:
  • Product manager/product owner certification
  • Training of agile ways of working like Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, LeSS, and DaD
  • Experience in sourcing and vendor management

Required skills

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