Portfolio Manager - Digital Value Chain

The Digital Value Chain PMO team is recruiting a Digital Portfolio Manager based in the Lille area (Upline / Btwin Village).

As Decathlon continues to develop its digital expertise, we are moving towards a fully integrated Value Chain. Our 2026-2030 vision is to design intelligent digital solutions for enhanced user experiences, powering an ever more efficient Value Chain, in close partnership with our Business counterparts.

As Digital Portfolio Manager, you are the strategic orchestrator of two crucial scopes: Industry & Production, and Supply & Material Planning. You are the guardian of transparency, alignment and the effective allocation of resources across these areas, finding the right balance between business growth and our commitments on carbon footprint, human impact and financial performance.

You leverage portfolio value to guide organisational design, strategic capacity allocation and proactive risk management. You report directly to the Lead PMO of the Digital Value Chain.

Your future impact

• Work in partnership with leaders to steer the Portfolio in line with Decathlon's strategic objectives.
• Manage intake, prioritisation and holistic sequencing of the work in your portfolio, identifying the decisions required and the trade-offs to be made.
• Formulate complete decision rationales, including impact assessments and potential trade-offs.
• Lead governance processes for decision-making, involving key stakeholders within and outside your scope where necessary.
• Communicate portfolio updates, rankings and decisions effectively across the whole organisation using established routines and deliverables that you will maintain.
• Provide clear insight into the logic behind decisions to improve organisational understanding.
• Working with Finance Controllers and Management teams, provide solid support to your scope throughout the annual budget cycle, from articulating budget needs to submission and allocation.
• Ensure regular and systematic forecasting and monitoring of resource allocation in order to optimise its use.
• Implement best practices to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of portfolio management.
• Actively engage with the wider PMO community, providing constructive feedback, sharing best practices and encouraging continuous improvement.

What you will bring

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in project, programme or portfolio management.
• Experience in portfolio management.
• Programme leadership experience - leading large-scale programmes and guiding project managers.
• Strong skills in project and programme management processes in Digital environments - experience working in large organisations with large-scale projects and programmes.
• Excellent communication skills - ability to convey key messages and actions effectively at all levels of the organisation, both in writing and orally.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills - experience working with complex stakeholder ecosystems and the ability to quickly build trusted relationships across disciplines and hierarchies.
• Strategic thinking - ability to balance a long-term vision with short and medium-term objectives.
• Adaptability and resilience - ability and willingness to engage in a rapidly changing international environment.
• Problem-solving skills - passion for creative problem-solving, the ability to start small (starting small), to "fail fast" (failing fast), and to apply lessons learned.
• Managerial courage - ability to address issues with a constructive mindset and to provide direct, kind and actionable feedback.
• English proficiency - French is a plus.
• Experience in Commerce / Retail (Retail) is a plus.
• Passionate about sport.

What we offer

• 2 days of remote working per week.
• Free choice of work equipment (Mac, Windows).
• A local PMO team integrated into a broader, cross-functional Digital team, within a global network (international career path).
• Skills development and mentoring (diversity of projects, technical certifications from the first year, internal and external training, etc.).
• Attractive remuneration package (employee shareholding, monthly/quarterly bonuses).