IT Security Portfolio Officer

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Job Description

Do you want to advise Vattenfall organization about IT & Information security risks and are aware of the latest digital security trends, technologies, laws and regulations? Do you also know this area well, have a pragmatic attitude and like to work in a dynamic international environment? Then you might be the Vattenfall IT Security Portfolio Officer that we are looking for to further strengthen our Group IT Security function!  

IT Security is an increasingly important discipline for Vattenfall business through an fast evolving digitalization as well as cyber threats and regulations. Therefore we are looking for an experienced and ambitious person who is not afraid of asking critical questions and that constantly strives for improvement. 

What will you do

The IT Security Portfolio Manager role is responsible for overseeing the planning, development, and implementation of project efforts that utilize security solutions, principles, standards, and best practices. Road map development for current and upcoming projects based on prioritization.  

The IT Security Portfolio Manager develops, establishes, and maintains project management standards and procedures. 

In addition to experience in Project delivery, the successful candidate will have background in process improvement, relationship management, building security into their projects and change management.  

This combination of experience and talent must be accompanied by excellent communication and organizational skills.  

This position requires the ability to understand the Security business sufficiently to communicate the importance of projects to the technology teams, as well as to understand technology sufficiently to communicate the complexity in simple terms to the business. It also requires knowledge on risk management in order for the  development of process roadmap.  

Furthermore, attention to detail and good analytical skills are important. 

Your tasks and your responsilibilties:

• Oversee all projects and programs , their scope and budget needs 
• Proper budget management according to ongoing deliveries and new potential initiatives
• Lead, manage and motivate the team to achieve tactical and strategic goals - Proactively work with Other Departments to facilitate practices that meet the objectives and standards 
• Provide leadership and direction on project management principles and practices and support to those groups and individuals within the Department who manage and deliver projects 
• Develop and deliver action-oriented portfolio scorecards, metrics, governance, and reporting to support business and executive decision making 
• Provide day-to-day analytic and strategic leadership for key organization-wide strategic initiatives to ensure implementation is consistent  
• Align with stakeholder of VIT and Business like CIO-Office / IT Strategy Department, Business IT Security representative, line management, IT Risk Management 
• Proper planning and investment reviews align with annual budget process 
• Provide scenario analysis and planning for a range of outcomes-focused on project scheduling and resource allocations 

Location  
Hamburg, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Katowice

Qualifications

Who are you? 

As our IT Security Portfolio Officer you bring strong communication skills, an open mindset and solid problem solving skills.

Next to this you bring:

• We believe that you have education and experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree with major course work in business, public administration, and/or information systems and 4 years of experience
• You have minimum 4 years of experience in relevant IT position in an international/corporate environment
• You have a high degree of co-operation and collaboration capabilities in a distributed work environment. Also you have proven technical or project management expertise in one or more of the infrastructure and/or application security areas/projects
• You can incorporate ad hoc changes of priorities based on current cyber threats  and present possible mitigations and solutions towards them
• Project management capabilities as certification IPMA C are expected, IPMA B is of high additional value, but not mandatory 
• Ability to develop and improve the IT Security Risk management process in order to optimize communication towards the stakeholders as well as to streamline the engagement to other processes
• You are fluent in English, other languages such as Swedish, German, Dutch are of additional value

Additional Information

Our offer 
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development. 

More Information 

Please apply before March 15th 2023. For additional specific technical information about this vacancy announcement please contact Thomas Bauch-Mertens (thomas.bauch-mertens@vattenfall.com). For further information regarding the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Marius Gläßge (marius.glaessge@vattenfall.de) or +49 30 81822004.

Trade union representatives in Sweden (IT) are Sofi Wadström (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00. 

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. 

We look forward to your application in English with a cover letter, curriculum vitae and relevant certificates or references. Please apply directly via our application link. Please note that we will only start the selection process after the application period has expired.

Since Vattenfall is part of the Swedish critical infrastructure many of our positions are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates can be subject to a Security Vetting process, according to Swedish legislation.

We look forward to your application!