Requirement Title: Head Project, Service and Product Management
Location: Oeiras, Portugal
Full time on-site: Yes
Not to Exceed: 99 Euro
Total Scope of the request (hours): 836
Required Start Date: 06 January 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO Secret
Specific Working Conditions: Normal office enviroment
Please do NOT
apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Any applications that do NOT meet all the above - and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV - will be deleted.
Duties and Role:
Strategic planning
Strategic planning
- Develops, communicates, implements and reviews the processes which embed strategic management in the operational management of the organisation.
- Leads and manages the creation or review of a strategy that meets the requirements of the business.
- Sets policies, standards, and guidelines for how the organisation conducts strategy development and planning.
- Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations.
- Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
- Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
- Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.
- Facilitates workgroups to deliver defined goals and outcomes.
- Provides support, guidance and suggestions to workgroups and teams to learn collaborative problem solving and improve their team performance.
- Creates shared responsibilities and sustainable agreements with the team
- Implements and improves agreed team principles, practices, processes & ceremonies.
- Recognises and works with the strengths and constraints of team dynamics.
- Plans and manages the acquisition and deployment of resources to meet specific needs and ongoing demand.
- Defines and manages the implementation of resourcing processes and tools.
- Advises on available options and customises resourcing approach to meet requirements.
- Adheres to standards, statutory or external regulations and codes of practice and ensures compliance.
- Engages with external parties in support of resourcing plans.
- Measures effectiveness of resourcing processes and implements improvements.
- Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.
- Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables.
- Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders.
- Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.
- Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.
- Facilitates business decision-making processes.
- Captures and disseminates technical and business information.
- Updates and implements improvements to risk assessment and management methods.
- Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of alternative risk management approaches.
- Recommends risk assessment procedures and techniques based on organizational need.
- Consults on a variety of risk assessment approaches and applications.
- Evaluates, recommends, and justifies optimum risk management scenarios.
- Advises others on a variety of risk and reward factors and their relationships.
- NATO Secret security clearance
- A Master's degree at a nationally recognized/certified University in a related discipline and 5 years post-related experience. Or a Bachelor's degree with 8 years post related experience.
- A minimum of 4 years' experience in managing products
- A minimum of 2 years' experience in managing projects or services
- A minimum of 2 years' experience in line management of product, project or service managers
- Experience in customer engagement within large, complex organisations
- Product manager/product owner certification
- Training of agile ways of working like Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, LeSS, and DaD
- Experience in sourcing and vendor management