Demand Team Leader

About the Role As a Demand Team Leader, you will be central to the development of ideas and opportunities across the portfolio, overseeing Demand Managers and supporting governance and portfolio reporting within the Demand & Portfolio Management (DPM) team at Atradius ITS. You will coordinate with ITS Project Delivery and business/IT stakeholders to shape ideas into strategically aligned demands and help transition them into executable projects. What You'll Do

• Provide day to day support and guidance to the Demand Managers, actively allocating the workload and priorities, and supporting the development of ideas and demands.
• Work closely with the Demand Controllers to create all necessary progress reporting and status updates related to Ideas and Demands to support portfolio level management reports.
• Where required, attend Portfolio management meetings to provide updates on the progress of the Ideas and Demands.
• Engage directly with the business and ITS stakeholders to assess and shape ideas and opportunities into clear, strategically aligned demands. Work with ITS, Business and Finance Architects, Analysts and Engineers to develop the ideas into clear demands in the form of a Business Case, including:
• Identifying business requirements, objectives, risks and benefits
• Assessing and validating the technical proposals
• Developing a high-level implementation approach
• Establishing key resource and budgetary requirements
• Reviewing and detailing the impact on the overall portfolio with the implementation of the demand, considering budgets, resources and dependencies
• Completing and detailing the associated impact on operational delivery teams (resource, budget and skills)
• Conveying the proposed demand to key stakeholders and decision makers as part of the creation and approval of the demands
• Supporting and guiding the ITS Project Managers with the transition of the demands into clear executable project plans, helping to quantify scope, deliverables, budget and resource requirements.
• Actively contributing knowledge, experience and support to the DPM team and the wider ITS unit. What We're Looking For
• 7+ years experience in either a project management or business analyst role, ideally with a relevant Bachelor degree or equivalent professional qualification (preferential but not essential).
• Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to manage expectations against strategic goals and requirements.
• Good understanding of project planning and dependency mapping principles, with the ability to develop high level implementation plans.
• Ability to analyse demand related data in order to develop clear proposals and recommendations and assess against strategic goals and objectives.
• Excellent communication skills (written and spoken English) and the ability to forge lasting relationships and communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and spoken communications as well as visualisations.
• Good understanding of financial management principles with the ability to assess the impact and value for money associated with the implementation of demands.
• Good understanding of resource and capacity management principles with the ability to identify resource constraints and gaps.
• Proactive and independent working style with strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.
• Good understanding of modern and classical business and IT architectures.
• Experience in consultancy, financial services, banking or insurance. Personal Qualities
• Confidential and honest
• Trustworthy, reliable and committed
• Determination to do an excellent job with attention to detail
• A team player, able to work effectively at all levels of an organization, with the ability to influence others to reach the best solution and move toward consensus. Compensation & Benefits
• The posting notes a dynamic, international and challenging work environment with training and support to reach your full potential including opportunities for continuous professional development.
• Specific salary and additional benefits are not disclosed in this posting.