Application Portfolio Manager

As Application PortfolioManageryou play a pivotal role in shaping Fugro’s global application landscape. You bring clarity, ownership, and governance to a complex environment, ensuring that every application delivers measurable business value.Youoperatebetween strategicdirecionand executionalgoveranancebetween IT and the business, with a strong focus on enterprise‑wide structure, coherence, and long‑term direction rather than technical or infrastructure detail.By driving lifecycle management,rationalisation, and strategic alignment, you strengthen operational resilience, reduce technical debt, and enable informed decision‑making across theorganisation. This is your opportunity to influence strategy at the intersection of business, IT, and architecture — and to create a portfolio that is transparent, future‑proof, and value‑driven.

Your role

• You own and evolve the application portfolio framework, policies, and governance to ensure consistent lifecycle management anddecision‑making;

• Youestablishand govern the decision-making framework for the application portfolio, ensuring that lifecycle, investment, risk, andrationalisationdecisions are not only prepared but also adopted, tracked, and embedded in execution

• You shape the IT strategic plan for your functional domain and ensure alignment with business strategy, roadmaps, and budgetcycles;

• Youmaintainfull transparency of cost, value, risk, lifecycle status, and technical health across the applicationportfolio;

• You guide and prepare Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, and Eliminate decisions, actively reducing technical debt and systemicrisk;

• You align application investments with functional and enterprise strategy by assessing strategic fit, overlap, anddependencies;

• You drive demand shaping andprioritisation, owning portfolioKPIsand health metrics to support balanceddecision‑making;

• You follow up on lifecycle actions, migrations, and eliminations to ensure decisions are executed and dataremainscomplete andaccurate;

• You deliver clear portfolio insights, trends, and scenario analyses to senior leadership and governance bodies, positioning yourself as the strategic connector between business priorities and enterprise IT.

Yourtrack record

• You bring a master’s degree in information systems, business administration, or equivalentexperience;

• You have 10+ years of experience in complex global IT environments, with at least 7 years in application portfolio management or relateddisciplines;

• You have worked with large, diverse application landscapes across multiple business domains or globalfunctions;

• Youdemonstratethe ability to support senior leaders withdata‑driveninsights and portfoliorecommendations;

• You understand application lifecycle management, enterprise architecture principles, and APM tooling, with a clear focus on enterprise-level structure rather than deep technicalspecialisation;

• You translate cost, value, and risk data into clear, actionable insights that drive strategic decisions;

• You are an excellent enterprise partner who can challenge and align senior stakeholders across business, IT, architecture, andthe businessfunctions, and who can build portfolio discipline in an environment where governance maturity is still developing.

What Fugro offers

• A gross monthly salary between €6100and €6900, depending on your relevant experience. This amount falls within our salary range and offers opportunities for growth within therole;

• 29 holidays per year based on a fulltime employment (of which 4 are appointed by Fugro management) and the possibility topurchase12additionaldays;

• Extensive career & training opportunities both nationally andinternationally;

• Flexible working hours and the ability to work from homein accordance withyour manager and corporatepolicies;

• Commutingallowance;

• Modern pensionscheme;

• Collective healthinsurance;

• Possibility to register with our corporate fitnessplan;

• Coaching options through our EAP (Employee Assistance Program).

Are you interested?

Please visit our Company Page to find out more on what it is like to work at Fugro.

If you have any further questions, please contact Umit Nesar, Talent Acquisition Partner, tel. +31 (0)6 -81 41 07 68

After you have applied

• You will receive an automated confirmation-email of the receipt of yourapplication;

• When we see a match, we will invite you for the first interview within a couple of days.Of course, you will also receive a message if we will not invite you;

• After a successful first round, you will be invited for the secondround;

• If we are both still positive after the second interview, we will make you an offer and with that we hope to welcome youatFugro!