IT Project Manager

Join Robeco’s IT Project & Portfolio Management Team

Department

The IT Project Manager is part of the IT Project & Portfolio Management team within the Robeco IT organization. The team consists of the Head of IT Project & Portfolio Management and 4 IT Project Managers (including this vacancy). The team is responsible for both IT portfolio management and managing strategic, multidisciplinary (international) IT projects. We do this in close collaboration with departments across Robeco, including Sales & Marketing, Investments, Product Management, Operations, Compliance, Legal, and Risk, as well as our IT teams.

IT portfolio management is responsible for defining, managing, and monitoring the 3-year IT roadmap. We safeguard the prioritizing of projects based on strategic goals, ensuring alignment with business objectives, allocating resources, monitoring progress, and ensuring that the portfolio delivers value to the business. We report on status to strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Stimulating the use of standardized methodologies and principles, maintaining hygiene, and focusing on transparency in metrics to gain insights into progress and predictability are core to the success of IT portfolio management.

IT project management involves managing large and complex cross value stream IT programs and projects, contributing to technological excellence and innovation to support our asset management operations.

Position & Requirements

As an IT Project Manager within Robeco, you will support the IT Project & Portfolio Management team in both portfolio management and project management activities.

IT portfolio management

• Contribute to or manage reporting to project SteerCo and/or Value streams.
• Connect with Product Owners to ensure up-to-date IT portfolio management data.
• Facilitate Agile Scrum processes within the organization, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and estimation techniques like story points.
• Remove impediments that hinder team progress.
• Support Scrum teams in the use of standardized methodologies and principles, enhance system observability, maintain security hygiene, and focus on transparency in metrics to gain insights into progress and identify gaps.

IT project management

• Support significant multi-disciplinary IT projects (e.g., change management, new business and product initiatives, process re-engineering, establishment of control procedures) that require knowledge of the firm and its functions.
• Engage with the team to coordinate tasks and address blockers; develop awareness of team dynamics.
• Apply basic templates or frameworks (e.g., RAID logs, status reporting).
• Develop dashboards, reports, and basic data models to support decision-making.

Requirements

• Ideal for professionals at the start of their project management career, eager to grow and develop in a dynamic IT environment.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, or equivalent.
• Affinity with and understanding of the asset management industry, IT, or project management.
• Strong analytical skills; highly organized, pragmatic, proactive, and results-driven.
• Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies (e.g., PMI, Prince2) and Agile knowledge.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written); Dutch is a plus.

Other considerations

• The position is for a minimum of 32 hours per week.
• This is a hybrid role, requiring the candidate to work in office (Rotterdam based) for 60% of the time.
• Working permit for working in the Netherlands is required.
• You’ll work at the intersection of finance, technology, and innovation.
• We foster a culture of collaboration, adaptability, and inclusion, where your voice matters.
• An assessment and integrity test may be used in the selection procedure.

About Us

As a Dutch asset manager operating globally, Robeco combines global reach and ambitions with a strong local presence in Rotterdam. We hire and nurture people who can think internationally and put the client first, while keeping their feet firmly on the ground. Our strong links with academia underpin the research in our robust quantitative and sustainability investing strategies. Our people have backgrounds in finance, economics, and geography, and our diverse backgrounds add local knowledge. We offer an informal and flexible office atmosphere that gives people the room to be themselves, to grow, and to perform to the best of their ability.