Manager, Portfolio & Capacity Management

Location: Warsaw, Poland
Hybrid model of work: 3 days in office, 2 remote per week

The Portfolio and Capacity Management (P&C) Team sits within the Chief Operating Office in the Oncology R&D (Research & Development) Business Unit. The Manager, Portfolio & Capacity Management is a member of the P&C Team and is primarily responsible for data quality, maintenance and analysis, contributing to the development of new analytical models to support portfolio & resource capacity management. The Manager, Portfolio & Capacity Management may serve as a point of contact on all portfolio and resource capacity management tools, training and processes.

Typical Accountabilities

• Provide support to key business & investment decisions: Coordinate data collection from a variety of sources and formats, providing analysis in support of optimizing resource utilization and enabling appropriate decision making.
• Ensure Data Integrity & Quality: Play a key role in maintaining the integrity and quality of portfolio demand and resource data. Your work will enable effective analytics, including reconciliation of data across systems, tracking actual vs. planned figures, and FTE (Full Time Equivalent) monitoring.
• Align Actual/Planned Headcount with Finance's FTE Tracking: Maintain the accuracy of CAPIT, our R&D resource planning tool, ensuring it aligns with Finance's FTE tracking. Your attention to detail will keep our headcount and vacancies on track.
• Enhance Time Recording Compliance: Drive compliance with MYTIME, our R&D time tracking tool, and work to improve data quality and reporting capabilities. Your efforts will contribute to a more streamlined process.
• Support Portfolio Analytics: Assimilate complex information to support the analysis of drug portfolio demand, productivity reporting/improvement, resource capacity, and other areas within business performance management. Your analytical insights will help shape our strategic investment direction.
• Design Data Models & Visualization: Work on designing and maintaining data models and visualization methods. Your expertise will enable effective reporting and contribute to resource capacity balancing discussions and decisions.
• Contribute to Continuous Improvement & Process Simplification: Actively identify functional operation resource gaps and implement opportunities to simplify processes/way of working. Your innovative thinking will help make our workflows more efficient.
• Build Stakeholder Partnerships: Establish effective partnerships with key stakeholders. Your collaboration will ensure alignment and foster a cohesive working environment.

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in relevant discipline
• Strong analytical and data management expertise.
• Ability to assimilate complex information and identify key issues and messages
• Highly numerate, supported by strong computing skills.
• Experience of working effectively in global teams in an international environment
• Experience of communicating complex information in both verbal and written form
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and multitask
• Self-starter requiring little oversight or prioritization support
• Strong customer focus

Desirable

• Knowledge of portfolio management processes
• Business Strategy and Portfolio operational experience
• Degree or equivalent experience in business and or scientific discipline.
• Exposure to or experience of Portfolio and Capacity Management, analytics, and modelling in a drug development environment.
• Demonstrated experience of Portfolio and Capacity Management analytical tools, including PLANIT, CAPIT, MYTIME, PowerBI.

Date Posted

08-kwi-2026

Closing Date

21-kwi-2026

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