Lead Portfolio Office; Data & AI Office

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Are you a strategic leader with a passion for portfolio management and Data & AI? Do you thrive in a complex stakeholder environment where you can help shape the future of Data & AI across the bank?

ABN AMRO is transforming its Central Data Office into the Central Data & AI Office (CDAO), a central enabling organization with a formal mandate for governance, standards, orchestration, and expertise in Data & AI. The CDAO plays a critical role in supporting the bank's transition to a value-stream operating model and ensuring scalable, compliant, and value-driven Data & AI capabilities.

Within the new Data & AI Governance & Portfolio department, we are looking for an experienced Head of Portfolio Office. The department acts as the enterprise steering function for Data & AI.

You will build and lead ABN AMRO's Data & AI Portfolio Office as the enterprise steering function for Data & AI. Your mission is to provide one integrated view across priorities, investments, dependencies and delivery progress. This to enable leadership to make informed trade-offs and better strategic decisions. Beyond managing the portfolio, you will transform the function into a trusted decision-support capability that increases transparency, improves prioritisation and helps accelerate the execution of ABN AMRO's Data & AI strategy.

Together with your team, you will provide management information, business management support (incl. consulting) and portfolio management required to support decision-making at the highest levels of the organisation, including Data Co and the Executive Board.

• Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary team of portfolio managers, consultants and business support professionals.
• Build a high-performing team culture characterised by ownership, accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Set clear priorities, empower people to take ownership and ensure delivery of tangible outcomes.
• Act as a trusted leadership partner within the CDAO management team, Data Domain Leadership and contribute to the broader development of the Data & AI organisation.

• Own and lead the bank-wide Data & AI portfolio management capability, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities and execution. Always in alignment with the bank-wide process such as Annual Business Review (A ) and Quarterly Portfolio Reviews (QPR).
• Facilitate portfolio dialogues and drive transparency on priorities, bottlenecks and trade-offs to support informed decision-making.
• Challenge stakeholders constructively to ensure resources are focused on the initiatives that create the greatest value for the bank.
• Act as Secretary to the Group Data Committee (Data Co) and support effective governance and follow-through of decisions.

• Ensure leadership has timely, accurate and actionable management information on progress, risks, dependencies and value realisation.
• Drive the integrated Data & AI reporting cycle, in alignment with the bank-wide process such as Annual Business Review (A ) and Quarterly Portfolio Reviews (QPR).
• Translate complex portfolio data into clear insights and recommendations for senior leadership, Data Co and Executive and Supervisory Board.

• Lead the evolution of the Portfolio Office towards an enterprise portfolio steering capability.
• Drive improvements in portfolio management practices, reporting standards, governance processes and ways of working with the aim to keep it lean & mean.
• Foster a culture that focuses on outcomes, decision quality and value creation rather than process.

The Portfolio Office is part of the Governance & Portfolio department within the Central…