**Job Description:** The ECb Portfolio Demand Senior Lead operates at the intersection of business strategy, technology demand, portfolio governance, and value realization. The role requires strong partnership with ECb leadership, delivery teams, product/service teams, finance, business stakeholders, and governance forums to ensure the portfolio is actionable, transparent, and outcome\-led. The role operates in a global, multicultural environment with competing priorities, evolving demand, constrained capacity, and the need for strong executive alignment. It requires the ability to simplify complexity, manage ambiguity, and create structure around decision\-making, prioritization, and value tracking. What are we looking for? * Lead a high\-performing Portfolio Demand team with clear standards and adaptable ways of working. * Build a customer\-focused and value\-driven roadmap based on business needs and ECb strategic priorities. * Drive portfolio transparency through clear reporting, governance routines, and decision\-ready insights. * Partner closely with ECb leadership and stakeholders to align demand, investments, and capacity. * Strengthen Lean Portfolio, value management, and outcome tracking practices across ECb. * Communicate in business language, connecting technology work to measurable outcomes and strategic value. Strategic Portfolio Leadership * Own and lead the ECb Portfolio Demand team, setting strategic direction, operating standards, governance practices, and ways of working. * Define and steer the ECb portfolio strategy, value themes, investment guardrails, and prioritization principles aligned with business outcomes. * Translate ECb and business strategy into a clear, actionable portfolio roadmap that enables leadership decision\-making and delivery focus. * Inspire Lean Portfolio Management practices, enabling the team to balance value, risk, capacity, dependencies, and delivery feasibility. Demand Intake and Prioritization * Lead the ECb demand intake process, ensuring demand is captured, qualified, assessed, and routed through consistent governance. * Guide portfolio prioritization based on value, risk, urgency, strategic fit, delivery capacity, and business impact. * Coach teams and stakeholders on intake quality, business case maturity, value articulation, and decision readiness. * Establish clear criteria and guardrails for demand evaluation, ensuring decisions are transparent, outcome\-focused, and aligned with ECb priorities. Value Management and Outcome Tracking * Drive value management practices across the ECb portfolio, ensuring initiatives are connected to measurable outcomes and business value. * Define and evolve value themes, benefit logic, success measures, and outcome tracking practices across the portfolio lifecycle. * Partner with delivery teams, finance, product, and business stakeholders to improve visibility of planned versus realized value. * Ensure portfolio reporting connects investment, capacity, delivery progress, risks, and value realization in a way that supports executive decisions. Governance and Portfolio Maturity * Strengthen ECb governance maturity by defining standards, cadences, decision forums, and portfolio control mechanisms. * Ensure governance is fit\-for\-purpose, balancing speed, quality, transparency, and accountability. * Build and continuously improve portfolio management practices, including roadmap management, prioritization, dependency visibility, and portfolio health reporting. * Drive consistency in how ECb initiatives are evaluated, approved, sequenced, monitored, and communicated. Team Leadership and Coaching * Lead, coach, and develop the ECb Portfolio Demand team, building capability in Lean Portfolio Management, value management, governance, and executive communication. * Create a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and outcome orientation. * Guide the team to excel in project delivery enablement, demand shaping, portfolio reporting, and value tracking. * Influence and motivate cross\-functional teams indirectly, ensuring alignment across ECb delivery, operations, product, finance, and business stakeholders. Executive Interface and Stakeholder Management * Act as a senior interface with executives and key stakeholders, translating strategic priorities into portfolio choices, roadmap decisions, and investment trade\-offs. * Communicate portfolio status, priorities, decisions, risks, and value outcomes in clear business language. * Facilitate leadership conversations on prioritization, capacity constraints, value opportunities, dependencies, and delivery risks. * Build trusted relationships across ECb, MGS, Digital Technologies, business functions, and external partners where relevant. **Qualifications:** Education and Professional Qualification Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or equivalent. MBA in Project Management, PMBoK Certification is a plus * MBA, Portfolio Management, Project Management, A