Global Application Portfolio Manager
Information Technology Utrecht Full-time Netherlands
Job Description
The position of Global Application Portfolio Manager sits within our Global Information Services (GIS) team — an incredibly diverse and collaborative group that supports JDE Peet’s business globally. As our new Global Application Portfolio Manager, you will play a key role in optimizing and managing our global application landscape to ensure it is cost-effective, fit for purpose, and aligned with our enterprise architecture strategy.
You will act as the bridge between strategic architecture and operational application management, ensuring that every system in our portfolio delivers value to the business and evolves with our changing needs.
In this role, you will:
Maintain an accurate, up-to-date inventory of all business applications globally and locally, including ownership, costs, licensing, and lifecycle details.
Monitor the introduction and usage of new applications to ensure visibility and governance across our landscape, preventing shadow IT.
Identify and drive application optimization and rationalization opportunities in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders.
Develop and maintain application rationalization roadmaps, balancing architecture direction, business priorities, and cost-benefit analysis.
Support and enable governance processes for application lifecycle management, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards.
Prepare portfolio reports and dashboards (KPIs, cost savings, legacy reduction, tech debt metrics) for IT leadership.
Collaborate closely with enterprise architects, application owners, vendor managers, and operations teams to ensure coordinated decision-making and transparent communication.
Qualifications
We are looking for a strategic, analytical, and collaborative professional with a passion for optimization and technology governance. You take ownership of your work, have strong project management skills, and thrive in a dynamic, evolving environment.
To be successful in this role, you bring:
A Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration (IT focus) or a related field.
5–10 years of experience in IT roles such as application management, IT project management, business analysis, or solution architecture.
Solid understanding of application lifecycle management, IT governance, and IT operations.
Strong project management and change management experience.
Good understanding of IT cost structures and financial management fundamentals.
Nice to have:
Experience with large, global, and complex IT environments.
Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and tools.
Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complexity for diverse stakeholders.
Additional Information
Your application at JDE Peet's
If you are interested in this career opportunity at JDE Peet's, apply and join us. After receiving your application we will do our utmost to give you quick feedback. Part of the recruitment procedure at JDE Peet's would be an online assessment, followed by interviews. A pre-employment check can be part of the recruitment process.
The future of work is hybrid, with both office and home playing an important role. At JDE Peet's, we value meeting colleagues in the office to unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea together and we enjoy our focus time when working from home. Join us and you will experience both. Because it’s amazing what happens over a cup of coffee.
Whether or not you are with us, two, four or thirty years, it doesn’t matter. We help you build your skillsets and potential career. We offer a solid and competitive base salary and ad additional benefits to the mix. To name a few: Learning and development budget, career development, Insurances, pension plans and a minimum of 25 + 12 ADV days of paid holidays (because we care and want to offer you a healthy work – life balance)
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Company Description
Who we are?
JDE Peet’s is the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, with local roots dating back to 1753, and is headquartered in the Netherlands. We unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries with a portfolio of over 50 brands, including L’OR, Peet’s, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, OldTown, Super, Pickwick and Moccona.
What’s it like to work at JDE Peet’s?
We are people united by the power and possibility of tea and coffee. At JDE Peet’s, we thrive on the freedom to pursue opportunities, provoking new ideas to make an impact at scale. Our ambition is simple – JDE Peet's: unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea.
We bring action to our intentions, following through on what was agreed, always pushing things forward. We offer our people a range of learning and development programmes to support their personal growth. We’ve worked hard to build an open, collaborative environment where you can approach anyone and be heard.
At JDE Peet's, we believe it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. We also believe that a diverse and inclusive culture enables us to serve every coffee and tea lover in the best possible way. No matter who you are, where you come from, how you live your life, or how you enjoy your coffee or tea, you can fulfil your ambitions and contribute to our success.
When you grow, we grow, and coffee & tea grows.
UNLEASH YOUR POSSIBILITY!
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