Senior Manager for IT Project and Portfolio Management

Do you want to lead project and portfolio management and translate strategic priorities into concrete results? As Senior Manager for IT Project & Portfolio Management at Energinet, you will be a key person in the Management Office & GRC, where you set the direction for the area, strengthen the interaction between IT and the business, and create transparency in the IT portfolio.

You will become part of an organization with an important societal task, where IT is crucial for us to operate and develop critical infrastructure safely and responsibly. Here you will have the opportunity to create value through strong leadership, clear priorities, and professional portfolio management.

Join the Management Office & GRC in Fredericia

Management Office & GRC is a central function in Tech & Innovation, and is responsible for creating coherence between strategy, governance, emergency preparedness, compliance, risk management, as well as project and portfolio management. We support the leadership and the organization with governance, prioritization, decision basis and common frameworks, so IT can deliver value to Energinet.

In IT Project & Portfolio Management you will have the management responsibility for 16 specialists and a number of external project managers. The area plays a central role in translating strategic ambitions into concrete results by creating an overview of the IT portfolio, supporting prioritizations and ensuring alignment between capacity and deliveries. You will lead a team that brings together project management, portfolio management and the Business Partner function, and you will collaborate closely with leaders and specialists across Energinet from your base in Fredericia.

"We are seeking a leader who can create a common direction and strong decision foundations in a complex portfolio. You bring people together around shared goals and translate strategy into action. At the same time, you will play a central role in developing people, processes and collaborations across the organization." – Lotte Pape Topholt, Director, Management Office & GRC

Set the direction for project and portfolio management

You report to the Director of Management Office & GRC and assume overall leadership and professional responsibility for IT Project & Portfolio Management. Your task will be to create alignment between Tech & Innovation's strategic goals and the concrete execution so that investments, capacity and prioritizations support the business needs.

• Lead, develop and motivate the employees in IT Project & Portfolio Management and set a clear professional direction for the area.
• Further develop IT’s project and portfolio management and ensure a scalable delivery and governance model that creates progress from idea to value realization.
• Create transparency in the total IT portfolio and strengthen the decision basis across value, economics, capacity, risks and dependencies.
• Develop governance, prioritization processes and management reporting that support effective and well-founded decisions.
• Strengthen collaboration between IT and the business through clear processes and a close interaction between the central PMO function, the Business Partner function and the local portfolios that support Energinet's core deliveries.

What you need to succeed in the first 6-12 months

• Established strong relationships with senior management, the team, and the key stakeholders in and around the IT portfolio.
• Created greater transparency in the IT portfolio and set a clear direction for the development of project and portfolio management, including governance, processes and reporting.
• Created engagement and ownership in the team and contributed to a common governance model that makes it easier to prioritize, follow up, and drive forward the most important initiatives.

You combine leadership with strong business understanding

We imagine you as an experienced leader who thrives on creating structure and direction in complex contexts. You have solid experience with project, program or portfolio management in a larger organization and understand how governance, prioritization, capacity and business needs must work together in practice. You can navigate between strategy and operations, translate goals into concrete actions and create buy-in through dialogue, involvement and clear communication.

It is an advantage if you have experience with governance, transformation initiatives, management reporting and cross-cutting change processes. Most importantly, you should have the desire to take responsibility for an area in development, where you must create clarity, develop people and ensure progress in collaboration with many different stakeholders.

With us you will have the opportunity to shape a central management discipline in an organization with great societal importance and help ensure that the IT portfolio creates real value for Energinet and for society.

Do you want to help make a difference together with us?

We look forward to receiving your motivated application and CV no later than October 23. Mark your calendars for November 11 and 12 for the first interview, and November 18 for the second interview. Both interviews will be held at the head office in Fredericia.

If you have questions about the job , you are welcome to contact Lotte Pape Topholt at phone +45 2465 4007.

Special conditions: Since Energinet solves society-critical tasks, we perform a background check prior to employment. It is a condition for employment that your background check is compatible with employment at Energinet. The background check is also conducted once a year.

The job also requires that you can obtain and maintain security clearance. On the PET's website you can read more about security clearance.

We see diversity as a strength and encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of background, to apply for the job. We actively and purposefully work with diversity at Energinet and therefore encourage you to remove a photo, age information, civil status and similar, to minimize unconscious biases in the process. You can read more about our diversity policy here.

You will be part of Tech & Innovation, which supports all of Energinet in innovation, digitalization, IT development and operation. As a strategic partner, we work across Energinet to deliver innovative and technological solutions that support Energinet's core mission of supplying society with electricity and gas. Tech and Innovation is organized according to agile principles, where teams collaborate effectively to create the most efficient solutions for Energinet.

Application deadline: October 23, 2026

Location: Fredericia