Portfolio Director

Portfolio Director

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At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centred organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

The Portfolio Director is responsible for strategic oversight of a portfolio of client programs and projects, ensuring delivery performance, risk management, and client outcomes across the portfolio. This role drives standardisation, predictability, and continuous improvement across Project and Program Management. With typically 10+ years of experience in project management or client-facing roles, this position involves leading cross-functional teams to drive successful project or program delivery, customer satisfaction, and long-term value. The Portfolio Director works closely with clients, internal teams, and senior stakeholders to address strategic needs, optimize delivery, and foster lasting relationships.

The Professional Services (PS) team is structured around four pillars: Business Consulting (BC); Project Management (PM); Service Delivery Management (SDM); and Service Engagement Management (SEM). From the early sales phase to final Go lives, this "One team" works closely together and in sync with all relevant stakeholders in The Americas and Client Services to secure best project experience and value for our clients. The combination of global scale standards and best practice with strong Market Unit execution is our DNA.

As SimCorp continues to expand its service catalogue and market reach, Project Managers are increasingly exposed to more complex and high velocity onboarding activities, with a constant demand for delivery excellence. This requires the implementation of high-quality delivery excellence process, appropriate tools and systematic execution across all opportunities. The mission of the role is to ensure that the region can efficiently and effectively handle multiple complex deliveries simultaneously, with good governance, stakeholder management and proper risk control measures in place, ultimately leading to increased success through delivery.

As a Portfolio Director you will be reporting to the Head of Delivery. You will be assigned the responsibility to either take the full ownership of client delivery or to provide support to the Head of Delivery through execution of best practices.

Working directly with Consulting teams, Commercial, Value Advisory, CSM, and all relevant Client Services stakeholders, you will be responsible for managing successful delivery of large and complex deals across The Americas, orchestrating inputs related to delivery health, performance, and risk across a defined client portfolio.

The Portfolio Director provides strategic oversight across a portfolio of client programs and projects, with accountability for delivery performance, risk management, and client outcomes. This role ensures consistent governance, reporting, and delivery standards across engagements, while providing senior escalation support to Program and Project Managers. The Portfolio Director partners with Professional Services leadership on capacity planning, delivery strategy, and continuous improvement initiatives, and represents the Project Management function in senior internal and client forums. The role plays a key part in shaping and evolving SimCorp's delivery model to drive predictability, scalability, and long-term client value.

For this role we are looking for experienced and ambitious individuals who will bring extensive client-facing experience, stakeholder management as well as both project sales and delivery experience to support our large and complex opportunities.

What you will be responsible for:

• Owns delivery of an end-to-end program or a portfolio of interconnected projects.
• Strategic alignment, cross-initiative governance, portfolio budgeting and resourcing, executive reporting.
• Enterprise planning, program governance, senior stakeholder alignment, complex risk/financial management.
• Owns a program (multiple interdependent projects) or a portfolio (multiple initiatives aligned to a strategy).
• Responsible for strategic alignment, long-term planning, and benefit realisation.
• Operates across multiple teams, business domains, or geographies.
• Establishes and enforces governance frameworks and standards.
• Own the strategic direction and operating model of a program or portfolio.
• Drive alignment between multiple projects and organizational objectives.
• Define governance, standards, and delivery frameworks for the program/portfolio.
• Control program/portfolio budget, resource model, and sequencing.
• Portfolio prioritisation within agreed boundaries.
• Funding allocation across projects/programs.
• Escalation pathways and risk mitigation strategies.
• Operating cadence (steering committees, performance reviews).
• Approaches to benefits tracking and realisation.
• Requires alignment from Head of Delivery for changes that affect organizational standards and shifts in strategic priorities or long-term investment.

What We Value:

• Extensive experience leading large portfolios of complex client programs
• Proven track record leading high-performing teams
• Deep understanding of delivery economics, risk, and governance
• Executive-level stakeholder management experience, with proven track record of quickly building and foster strong customer relationships
• Proven commercial awareness and track records of enabling large initial and expansion project (ideally both Time & Material and Fixed Fee)
• Excellent understanding of our clients' business
• Managing strategic client engagements from start to finish, ensuring high levels of satisfaction and value.
• Able to discuss the challenges and demands clients are facing
• Ability to build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders across the organization to meet shared objectives
• Strong communication, influencing and conflict management skills
• Outstanding presentation skills
• Structured, organized and extremely rigorous
• Great time management and prioritization skills
• Readiness to walk the extra mile
• Empathy and the ability to listen
• Flexibility to travel across the region when required – working from SimCorp's office at least two days a week

Benefits:

Attractive salary and bonus scheme are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work and life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model - working from SimCorp's office two days a week. And opportunities for professional development: there is never only one route - we offer a personal approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take. Visit our career pages to learn more about working at SimCorp.

For New York City only: The salary range for this position is $199,280 –$298,920 USD. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including health care, leave, and retirement plans. Your total compensation may vary based on role, location, department and individual performance.

Next steps:

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavour to mitigate biases in our recruitment process. This role is for an active, existing vacancy.

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone's experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

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