Technical Portfolio & Project Manager | CIO Office @ ING Bank

Mission

At ING, we believe in giving people the freedom to grow, explore, and build what matters to them. Our Data Warehouse stands at the heart of that mission -- powering decisions that shape products, protect customers, and help millions stay a step ahead in life and business. If you're passionate about high-quality data engineering and want to build meaningful solutions with real impact, you'll feel right at home here.

About the team

You'll join a collaborative, dynamic Tech team working on high-impact initiatives that shape ING's transformation. The environment is cross-functional, transparent, and focused on delivering value. You will work closely with technology leaders, delivery tribes, transformation teams, and financial partners to ensure portfolio decisions are well-informed and strategically aligned.

Your day-to-day

As a Technical Portfolio & Project Manager , you ensure that technology initiatives are strategically aligned, effectively prioritized, and delivered with measurable value. You will coordinate the Tech project portfolio, bridging strategy, delivery, governance, and financial oversight.

In this role, you will:

• You will lead assigned IT projects throughout their full lifecycle, from initiation to post-implementation review, ensuring delivery of agreed scope within time, budget and quality expectations. This includes planning and managing resources and costs, providing forecasts and variance analysis, and ensuring effective financial and quality control.
• You will proactively identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies and constraints, escalating when needed and driving mitigation actions. You will define and execute stakeholder engagement plans, ensuring effective collaboration, transparency and alignment across technical and business stakeholders.
• You will apply appropriate project management methodologies to deliver intended outcomes, while balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders and making decisions that optimize overall results. Clear, structured and audience-appropriate communication will be a key part of your role, enabling informed decision-making at all levels.
• Beyond individual projects, you will contribute to the governance and coordination of the Tech project portfolio. You will support portfolio planning and prioritization activities, taking into account value, risk, dependencies, regulatory requirements and delivery/non-delivery capacity. You will monitor portfolio-level performance (progress, financials, risks and dependencies) and provide consolidated insights to Tech leadership.
• You will actively identify cross-project dependencies and resource conflicts and propose sequencing or mitigation options. You will support portfolio decision-making forums by preparing materials, scenarios and impact assessments, and ensure consistency in project execution, reporting and governance standards in line with ING standards. Continuous improvement of portfolio management practices, tools and ways of working is an integral part of the role.

What you bring to the team:

• University degree, preferably in a technical field
• Minimum 5 years' experience in IT and at least 3 years' experience as a Project Manager
• Experience working in complex, cross-functional environments
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at multiple levels
• Analytical, structured and data-driven mindset
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively under pressure
• Excellent communication skills in Romanian and English
• Experience or strong exposure to portfolio or multi-project environments
• Ability to articulate trade-offs between scope, cost, risk, capacity and value
• Project management certifications are a plus
• Strong Excel skills; advanced PowerPoint skills; experience with project/portfolio tools is a plus

What we offer

• Impactful work in a fun, inclusive and highly collaborative environment.
• Modern, open office spaces built for teamwork and creative work.
• Hybrid working model with flexibility baked in.
• Monthly benefit budget you can use your way.
• Extra paid vacation days based on total work experience.
• Continuous learning opportunities through ING Learning Centre, Udemy, Bookster, trainings and certifications.
• Internal mobility across ING worldwide, including short- and long-term international assignments.
• Opportunities to contribute to sustainability and CSR initiatives.

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Discover ING Bank Romania

ING believes in a world where everyone has the right to grow and progress in their own way. We express this in our global tagline, "do your thing". Perhaps more than in any other large company, we extend our belief in the power of autonomy to our own people. But there's a catch. In return for great freedom, we expect people to do great things for our customers, our stakeholders, and ING at large.

To work here is to be surrounded by people who are energetic, ambitious, friendly and respectful: talented specialists who take responsibility and autonomy to make great things happen. We stay curious, thrive on change, and seek new and better ways to make it happen. Active in Romania for 30 years, ING Bank pioneered and challenged the local banking industry. Technology and innovation are at the core of what we do, making our products relevant for our customers' lives and businesses.

ING Bank Romania is the only bank with an organic growth within the top 10 local banks by assets, without acquisitions of client portfolios or other banks. ING Bank Romania is an universal bank with more than 1.8 million customers from three business segments: individuals (retail), SME and Mid-Corporate companies and Wholesale Banking.

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