Portfolio Strategy & Pipeline Lead

Beschreibung:

About the job

At Danone, we're looking for a Portfolio Strategy & Pipeline Lead to connect business priorities with our IT & Data portfolio across the Americas region. In this role, you will ensure strategic initiatives are aligned, prioritized, and ready to move from idea to execution, creating visibility and value across the organization.

What You'll Do
* Lead the alignment between annual business priorities (AOP) and the IT & Data portfolio.
* Manage the portfolio pipeline from ideation through approval readiness, ensuring clear prioritization and visibility.
* Partner with Business Partners, Product Teams, Finance, and key stakeholders to shape and refine initiatives before formal governance reviews.
* Support investment planning and prioritization decisions by balancing business value, funding availability, and execution feasibility.
* Guide teams in preparing high-quality business cases and improving initiative readiness.
* Contribute to cross-functional strategic programs, driving alignment, transparency, and portfolio visibility across the region.

To be successful in this role, you bring a strong understanding of portfolio management, strategic planning, and investment prioritization, with the ability to connect business needs to technology initiatives. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing diverse stakeholders, and turning complex information into clear recommendations and decisions. You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy working at the intersection of business, product, finance, and technology. Most importantly, you are energized by continuous improvement, new challenges, and opportunities to drive meaningful impact across a dynamic regional organization.
* Strong portfolio, demand, or strategic planning capabilities, with the ability to assess priorities, value, funding considerations, and execution feasibility.
* Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage Business Partners, Product Teams, Finance, and senior leaders across multiple markets. 
* Analytical and structured problem solver who can translate complexity into actionable insights, clear priorities, and informed decisions.
* Strong business and financial acumen, including an understanding of business cases, investment planning, governance processes, and portfolio decision-making. 
* Comfortable working in evolving environments, balancing multiple priorities, and adapting quickly as business needs and strategic directions change.
* Demonstrates Growth Agility: embraces challenges as learning opportunities, continuously develops new skills, seeks feedback, and remains resilient while driving change and improvement across teams and processes." descriptionHeader="
At Danone, we're looking for a Portfolio Strategy & Pipeline Lead to connect business priorities with our IT & Data portfolio across the Americas region. In this role, you will ensure strategic initiatives are aligned, prioritized, and ready to move from idea to execution, creating visibility and value across the organization.
 

What You'll Do
* Lead the alignment between annual business priorities (AOP) and the IT & Data portfolio.
* Manage the portfolio pipeline from ideation through approval readiness, ensuring clear prioritization and visibility.
* Partner with Business Partners, Product Teams, Finance, and key stakeholders to shape and refine initiatives before formal governance reviews. 
* Support investment planning and prioritization decisions by balancing business value, funding availability, and execution feasibility. 
* Guide teams in preparing high-quality business cases and improving initiative readiness. 
* Contribute to cross-functional strategic programs, driving alignment, transparency, and portfolio visibility across the region." workFromHome="Hybrid