Senior Lead, Portfolio Management

27/07/2026

DNK-Randers, Danish Crown Vej

Senior Lead, Portfolio Management 

Are you motivated by creating clarity, structure, and understanding across complex portfolios of projects and programmes? Do you enjoy enabling informed decision-making, strengthening governance, and supporting organisations in delivering their strategic priorities? If so, this is a unique opportunity to contribute to the transformation of Danish Crown as a Senior Lead, Portfolio Management.

A role enabling clarity and prioritisation across the Group

You will join our Strategy & Transformation Office – a high-impact team with a mandate to drive change across the entire Group. In this role, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining a clear overview of our project portfolio, supporting prioritisation and transparency across initiatives.

You will work across Group Functions and Business Units, collaborating closely with SPOCs in each area to create alignment on portfolio data, governance, and priorities. Your focus will be on building and operating a strong portfolio “cockpit” covering transformation, PMI, IT, and innovation projects (NPI), supporting the organisation in making informed decisions and allocating resources effectively.

 
Your responsibilities

You will establish and support the effective management of the project portfolios by:

• Establishing and maintaining a coherent overview of the project pipeline and ongoing initiatives across the Group


• Collaborating with Group Functions and Business Units to ensure consistent and high-quality portfolio data


• Defining, implementing, and strengthening portfolio governance processes, including stage-gate tools and prioritisation frameworks


• Develop portfolio insights, reporting, and recommendations for senior and executive management to enable informed decision-making


• Enable alignment across transformation, PMI, IT, and innovation initiatives enabling capacity planning, financial planning and benefit realisation


• Lead the development and continuous improvement of the project management model and toolbox


• Build strong stakeholder relationships across organisational layers and drive initiatives to enhance adoption of project governance and project model incl. supporting tools


• Serve as business owner of the PPM system, defining requirements and supporting continuous improvement in collaboration with IT

Who are you?

You likely bring experience from PPM, PMO, PMI, R&D or transformation environments, and are motivated by creating structure, transparency, and consistency across complex sets of initiatives. You enjoy working at the intersection of governance, data, and stakeholder collaboration.

You are comfortable working across multiple stakeholders and organisational layers, combining a structured and process-oriented mindset with a collaborative approach.

You also bring:

• Experience working with project portfolios, PMO functions, or governance processes in complex organisations


• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, prioritisation, and project lifecycle management


• Experience in developing reporting and insights for senior stakeholders


• A structured and practical approach to designing and improving governance processes and frameworks


• Interest in working with systems, tools, and templates (experience with PPM tools is an advantage)


• Ability to engage, influence, and constructively challenge stakeholders to create alignment across functions and organisational layers


• Ability to build strong collaborative relationships and an inclusive way of working with colleagues


• Relevant higher education within business, engineering, IT, or similar disciplines. Fluency in English, both spoken and written – Danish is an advantag

We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where different perspectives, backgrounds, and ways of working are valued. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, even if your experience does not match every requirement listed above. However, weekly presence at our headquarters in Randers will be required.

What We Offer

Danish Crown isn't just a big player in the food industry; we are also a workplace with top-notch facilities in our new headquarters that provides an inspiring environment for collaboration and creativity. From our professional kitchen facilities to our fitness center, padel courts, and outstanding canteen, it's a place where you'll flourish professionally and personally. 

We are ambitious and have plenty of tasks ahead of us, but that doesn't stop us from having a continuous focus on employee well-being. We offer good employee conditions with attractive compensation and benefit package, pension and health insurance etc.

So, if you’re ready to embrace new challenges, inspire change, and make an impact, this is the role for you.

Appetite for more?

To learn more, please contact Morten Teilmann Gildsig, Director Global PMO at +45 21 64 92 05. 

We review applications on an ongoing basis and will close the search once the right candidate has been identified. 

We look forward to hearing from you!