GBS Portfolio Director

Posted date Jun. 12, 2026
Contract type Full time
Job ID R\-254314

Why choose AstraZeneca Portugal?
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As an exciting and emerging leader in pharma and biotech, we're pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life\-changing medicines to patients. This is where breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. Voted the best company to work for in Portugal 2023/24, AstraZeneca provides the thrill of a start\-up within the security of a global firm that brings new challenges and pathways for a fulfilling career.

If you’re ready to make a difference, join our Global Hub in Corporate Affairs, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Marketing, Global Business Services or Procurement. Bring your potential to our evolving team today.

Who do we look for?
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Calling all dynamic, ambitious team players. At AstraZeneca, we empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. Here, you'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.

We're on the lookout for diverse minds inspired by difference who want to reach another level in their careers. Bold disrupters who confidently rise to challenges as fearless entrepreneurs. People who want to make a meaningful impact led by science in an organisation where global meets local. Join one of our offices in Lisbon and discover a culture of openness and vibrancy where diverse perspectives are encouraged and valued. Your work will have a real impact, no matter your level or function.

Success Profile
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Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth\-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.

Tech innovators

Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. If you're technology\-savvy and have a digital mindset, you can use your skills and experience to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.

Dynamic

In a constantly evolving environment dedicated to innovation, you'll use your strong sense of purpose to provide outstanding contributions. Although we're a global company, our Global Hub operates like a start\-up, allowing you to work autonomously. Bring your fearlessness of improving patient outcomes, and we'll encourage your personal success.

Ambitious

Play your part in progressing a world\-leading pipeline. Here, you'll improve patients' lives now and better the future of humanity. With our opportunities for continuous development, you'll exhibit your passion and potential to go beyond the expected — and grow in your career with our support.

Team players

Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of openness, sharing and giving allows everyone to speak up and express their ideas. In an open atmosphere of camaraderie and support, we rely on each other to further our progress and drive much\-needed change.

Responsibilities
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Job ID R\-254314 Date posted 06/12/2026
Job Title: GBS Portfolio Director

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Introduction to role:Are you ready to turn strategy into realised value by orchestrating a single, outcome\-led portfolio that accelerates our 2030 ambition? Can you connect strategy, transformation and operations to make disciplined, transparent decisions that direct funding and delivery to what matters most for patients and the business?

Based in Lisbon and reporting to the Senior Director, GBS Portfolio, you will shape the strategic direction, governance and operational standards that align a complex, global portfolio to enterprise priorities. You will be the link between ambition and execution, ensuring investments, priorities, risks and benefits are visible and managed with pace and discipline.

Your work will enable faster, clearer decisions on digital, automation and AI\-enabled change, ensuring initiatives land effectively in operations and deliver sustained outcomes. By creating a single source of truth and embedding robust benefits tracking, you will build confidence in delivery and help unlock the next wave of value that ultimately supports life\-changing medicines reaching patients.

Accountabilities:

• Portfolio Strategy \& Roadmap: Define and maintain an outcome\-led portfolio roadmap aligned to enterprise strategy, GBS priorities and delivery of GBS Bold Ambition 2030\. Continually assess portfolio composition and recommend re\-prioritisation, acceleration, pause or stop so investment stays focused on the highest\-value outcomes.


• Integrated Governance \& Prioritisation: Co\-own the end\-to\-end portfolio governance framework with the GBS Governance Director, including common intake, prioritisation criteria, decision forums and stage gates. Drive rigorous yet agile governance where initiatives are evaluated by value, risk, strategic fit and digital readiness so funding and resources flow to the highest priorities, with oversight tailored for digital, automation and AI\-enabled change.


• Planning \& Dependency Management: Maintain a single integrated view of portfolio plans across all programmes and projects. Proactively identify inter\-dependencies, constraints, shared resources and enterprise change capacity; use scenario planning and evidence\-based trade\-offs to dynamically re\-prioritise, sequence and shape scope to maximise overall portfolio impact.


• Performance Tracking \& Value Realisation: Establish robust benefits management with Finance. Quantify and track value, validate that savings and improvements are realised in the business, and evolve investment and benefits frameworks for digital, automation and AI initiatives. Intervene early when milestones or benefits are at risk and ensure transparent reporting from investment to outcome.


• Single Source of Truth Reporting: Provide authoritative portfolio reporting and analytics that consolidate progress, spend, risks, issues, capacity signals and value measures into executive\-ready insights. Use leading indicators and scenario\-based analysis to inform decisions and build trust in delivery.


• Risk \& Change Management: Lead portfolio\-level risk management to identify systemic risks, cross\-cutting dependencies, readiness issues and capacity bottlenecks, coordinating mitigations. Oversee portfolio change control and support operational readiness and transition into BAU with Transformation and Service Leaders to sustain benefits.


• Continuous Improvement of Portfolio Practices: Continuously refine the portfolio management framework, embedding lessons learned, independent assurance, health checks and structured retrospectives. Apply Lean and Agile principles to PMO operations and digitise processes, leveraging automation to increase pace, consistency and insight.


• People \& Capability Leadership: Build, lead and develop the portfolio team and the broader community of project and programme professionals. Set the capability bar, coach delivery leaders, raise practitioner standards and partner with HR on a structured PM career path.


• Tools, Standards \& Assurance: Own the GBS PPM toolset and reporting platform. Set standards for projects, programmes and portfolios, including stage\-gates, RAID, benefits cases and assurance. Run independent portfolio assurance and post\-implementation reviews to drive learning back into delivery.


• Partner \& Vendor Governance: Govern delivery from strategic systems integrators, consultancies and BPO partners, ensuring outcomes, commercials and quality are managed at portfolio level.

• Extensive Transformation Portfolio Experience: 10\+ years leading large\-scale, multi\-year transformation portfolios or enterprise PMOs in a global shared services, operations, or technology context. Proven track record of delivering significant business value (e.g. major cost savings or service improvements) and managing a complex mix of projects from concept to benefit realisation.


• Strategic \& Financial Acumen: Demonstrated ability to translate strategic goals into an actionable portfolio of initiatives, and to enable or make critical prioritisation decisions using data and business insight. Strong financial literacy – capable of shaping business cases, managing funding, and validating benefits with Finance.


• Governance, Planning \& Delivery Expertise: Deep knowledge of strategic portfolio governance practices and project/programme management methodologies across waterfall, agile, hybrid and product\-led delivery. Skilled in integrated planning, dependency management, capacity balancing, risk assessment and structured problem\-solving to keep a complex portfolio on track, while evolving ways of working to remain lightweight, scalable and effective.


• Stakeholder Management \& Influence: Exceptional relationship\-building and communication skills, including at executive level. Adept at influencing without formal authority, navigating conflicting priorities, and driving consensus. Able to challenge constructively, shape investment and prioritisation decisions, and simplify complex information into a compelling narrative for executives, functional experts and delivery teams.


• Change Leadership, Digital Fluency \& Collaboration: Experience fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement. Comfortable leading through ambiguity and change, with a pragmatic, human\-centric approach to driving adoption of new ways of working across teams. Confident operating in a digital transformation environment and comfortable with AI, automation and emerging technologies, with the ability to shape portfolio proces

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