VP, Delivery & Planning

Join our global Digital and Technology team as the backbone of our operations! As the VP of Delivery & Planning, you will play a pivotal leadership role, ensuring clarity, control, and consistency across our Portfolio Management, Change and Transformation, Agile and Scrum Delivery Centers of Excellence, Cluster business partnering, and overall Delivery Management.

In this key position, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to align strategic direction with portfolio priorities, ensuring timely, within scope, and budget delivery of our projects. Additionally, you will manage strong technology partnerships in collaboration with our global Procurement team, driving continuous improvements and maturity in our technology delivery processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the Delivery & Planning function and direct team: Ensuring high performance through strong leadership, coaching, guidance, and professional development, whilst fostering a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability.  

• Facilitating Strategic Planning with constant alignment to overall portfolio: Drive the process of aligning portfolio planning and execution with overall company and technology strategies, ensuring investing in the right things based on solid prioritisation levers – and merging company planning wheel with D&T planning and execution vehicle  

• Providing Transparent Governance, Performance and value reporting:  
  establishing and enhancing the right balance of Portfolio governance in a hybrid portfolio. Monitor and report on initiative performance. Provide regular updates to senior leadership and stakeholders in the right shape and format – this includes facilitating Strategic Portfolio Review and cadence.

• Enabling Cross-Functional Collaboration across D&T to improve portfolio delivery: Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to identify, address, and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies.  

• Championing Process Optimization & Efficiency in delivery methodologies: Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project management processes, tools, and methodologies.

• Establishing Governance & Partner Alignment: Implement and maintain governance frameworks and guardrails to ensure effective partner management and alignment with strategic objectives.  

• Evolving Technology Delivery Capabilities: Develop and enhance capabilities in capacity management, workforce planning, Agile methodologies and transformation management to improve technology delivery efficiency and technology domains’ health and maturity.  

• Cultivating a Collaborative & Accountable Team Environment: Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability within the Delivery & Planning team.  

• Optimising Resource Allocation & Capacity Planning: Manage resource allocation and capacity planning to ensure efficient project delivery and team utilization across the delivery team. 

• Building Strategic Stakeholder Relationships: Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and establish governance and guardrails for strategic partnerships and DTLT sponsorship. 

• Ensuring strong business partnering to our commercial clusters.

• Providing executive support to the CDTO ensuring key topics of importance are progressing, and key meeting materials and artefacts are in place when needed. 

• Leading and develop a high performing team, providing regular feedback and coaching, ensuring that colleagues understand the Phoenix Strategy and how their goals and activities support this.  

• Building a culture of engagement and inclusivity, ensuring that Pandora attract and retain world leading talent.

Did we get your attention? 
If you see yourself in the position and would like to become a part of Pandora’s future, please do not hesitate to apply. We look forward to hearing from you! We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about Pandora on our corporate site www.pandoragroup.com. 

Icing on the cake 
You will be working out of our beautiful Head Office in Copenhagen V, established in 2016 and designed to unite and inspire our teams. Besides our beautiful interior design we are also proud of our LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design. This means that we use as few natural resources as possible and that we use them with respect. The result is a professional and dynamic space that is unique, comfortable and inspirational – and delivers a true Pandora experience to anyone who works here or comes to visit. 

About Pandora 
Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.  

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.  

At Pandora, we believe that creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and reflecting societal diversity in our customer engagement is essential to delivering on our company purpose: to give a voice to people’s loves. We dedicate ourselves to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and diversity where everyone feels respected and valued.