About this role
About the role
As Associate Director Demand, Portfolio & Financial Services, you will play a key role in driving BioNTech’s Digital Technology Platforms (DTP) department forward. You will own and optimize the demand-to-value chain, ensuring transparent prioritization and alignment of business and technology needs. Your strategic leadership will shape the department's management system for demand intake, portfolio steering, and financial oversight—directly contributing to BioNTech’s mission of advancing medicine.
Your contribution:
- Lead and refine the end-to-end demand management process for DTP platform services
- Strategize and steer project, product, and service portfolios with clear prioritization models
- Drive transparency in budget planning, forecasting, and cost allocation (OPEX/CAPEX)
- Ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements across processes
- Foster collaboration by aligning demands with business domains and cross-functional teams
- Champion continuous improvement in governance models, methods, and standards
A good match:
- Several years of proven expertise (5+ years) in demand management, portfolio structuring, budgeting, and vendor management
- Strong analytical skills to assess feasibility, risks, architectural fit, and compliance relevance
- Advanced technical proficiency in IT financial management tools (e.g., SAP/Ariba or ServiceNow) to drive transparency across costs and investments
- Familiarity with frameworks like ITIL 4 or COBIT is a plus
- Experience integrating FinOps practices for cloud cost optimization is highly desirable
- Strategic thinker with the ability to maintain a holistic view while managing priorities effectively
- Excellent communication skills to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- (Business) fluent English language skills, both oral and written
Your Benefits:
It's our priority to support you:
- Your flexibility: flexible hours | vacation account
- Your growth: Digital Learning | Performance & talent development | leadership development | Apprenticeships | LinkedIn Learning
- Your value: Your voice at the table | Culture on an equal footing | Opportunities to shape & impact | Support for your full potential
- Your health and lifestyle: Company bike
- Your mobility: Job ticket | Deutschlandticket
- Your life phases: Employer-funded pension | Childcare
Note: This job description is for a role in Mainz, Germany.
BioNTech, the story
At BioNTech, we are more than just a biotechnology company – we are a community of innovators, scientists, and leaders dedicated to revolutionizing medicine by translating cutting-edge science into survival. Your contributions here have the potential to improve the health of people worldwide, especially by addressing diseases with high medical needs like cancer and various infectious diseases.
Experience a dynamic workplace that embraces diversity in all its forms. We foster innovation, encourage creativity, and develop business strategies driven by our shared passion for advancing medicine.
Working at BioNTech means striving to achieve medical breakthroughs while growing your career in a meaningful way. Apply today and become part of a mission that has the potential to change lives around the world.
BioNTech does not tolerate discrimination, favoritism or harassment based on gender, political views, religion or belief, nationality, ethnic or social origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, physical appearance, health status or any other physical or personal characteristics. BioNTech is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. The main thing is that you suit us, and we suit you!
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