Deadline Date: Wednesday 18 June 2025
Requirement: Resource Manager (Portfolio Management)
Location: Mons, BE
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 836
Required Start Date: 28 July 2025
End Contract Date: 31 December 2025
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties and Role:
Portfolio management
* Engages and influences senior managers to ensure the portfolio will deliver the agreed business objectives.
* Leads the definition of a portfolio of programmes, projects, and/or on-going service provision.
* Plans, schedules, monitors and reports on portfolio-related activities.
* Ensures that each part of the portfolio contributes to the overall achievement of the portfolio.
* Identifies portfolio-related issues.
* Notifies projects/programmes/change initiatives of issues and recommends and monitors corrective action.
* Collects, summarises and reports on portfolio measures.
* Reports on portfolio status as appropriate.
Portfolio, programme and project support
* Supports programme or project control boards, project assurance teams and quality review meetings.
* Takes responsibility for the provision of support services to projects.
* Uses and recommends project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking projects.
* Sets up and provides detailed guidance on project management software, procedures, processes, tools and techniques.
* Provides basic guidance on individual project proposals.
* May provide a cross programme view on risk, change, quality, finance or configuration management.
Business situation analysis
* Investigates business situations where there is some complexity and ambiguity.
* Adopts holistic view to identify and analyse problems and opportunities.
* Contributes to the selection of the approach and techniques to be used for business situation analysis.
* Conducts root cause analysis and identifies recommendations for improvements.
* Engages and collaborates with operational stakeholders.
Workforce planning
* Gathers, maintains and analyses workforce capability data.
* Performs gap analysis to identify workforce strengths and shortfalls with reference to business strategy and specific future needs.
* Contributes to the development of workforce plans to meet current and future demand.
* Coordinates and schedules ongoing workforce planning activities.
* Assists in maintaining a skills and capability inventory.
Internal Controls
* Studies and evaluates the audit trails of various operational processes.
* Participates in the testing, review and analysis of existing internal controls.
* Applies new technology-based solutions to specific internal control processes.
* Completes, files and maintains forms used for internal control documentation.
* Makes recommendations for the enhancement of certain internal controls.
Requirements
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
* The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
* Higher vocational training in a relevant discipline with 3 years post-related experience. Or a secondary educational qualification with 5 years post-related experience
* Experience in financial management within a customer-funding environment;
* Experience in planning, preparation and production of budget submissions;
* Experience in budget execution and resource management;
* Experience in preparing, conducting and reporting using statistical sampling methods;
* Knowledge and experience in enterprise resource planning systems, project management processes, procedures and tools.
* Ability to interpret financial data and allocate budgets.
* Deciding and Initiating Action - Takes responsibility for actions, projects and people; takes initiative and works under own direction; initiates and generates activity and introduces changes into work processes; makes quick, clear decisions which may include tough choices or considered risks.
* Adhering to Principles and Values - Upholds ethics and values; demonstrates integrity; promotes and defends equal opportunities, builds diverse teams; encourages organisational and individual responsibility towards the community and the environment.
* Relating and Networking - Easily establishes good relationships with customers and staff; relates well to people at all levels; builds wide and effective networks of contacts; uses humour appropriately to bring warmth to relationships with others.