Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager – Clinical Manufacturing & Supply 

Location - Warsaw

At AstraZeneca, we are united by a shared mission to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. Within Clinical Manufacturing & Supply (CM&S), we are responsible for the manufacture, sourcing, and supply of investigational medicines across a diverse global clinical portfolio. We are now looking for a Portfolio Manager to play a central role in helping us understand and shape demand, align portfolio priorities with capacity, and generate the insights that support confident decision-making across CM&S and our wider development partners. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys combining strategic thinking, data-driven planning, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement to make a real impact across the portfolio. 

What you’ll do 

• Lead portfolio and capacity management activities for an aligned Therapy Area or defined business scope within CM&S. 

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate portfolio demand into clear resource and capacity insights that support prioritisation and delivery decisions. 

• Represent CM&S in portfolio and governance forums, ensuring supply implications, constraints, risks, and opportunities are clearly understood. 

• Generate high-quality portfolio analysis, decision support, and reporting for senior leaders across CM&S and PT&D. 

• Drive continuous improvement in portfolio planning, demand management, and data quality, including simplification, standardisation, and automation of planning processes. 

• Support the development and enhancement of planning tools, reporting approaches, and portfolio ways of working to improve transparency and decision-making. 

• Use data, judgement, and business understanding to challenge assumptions, improve forecast quality, and strengthen planning confidence over time. 

• Contribute to key business planning cycles, including long-range planning, mid-term planning, budgeting, and portfolio reviews. 

• Act as a trusted partner to functional leaders, helping shape discussions on priorities, trade-offs, and portfolio implications. 

Why this role matters 

This role sits at the heart of how CM&S plans and delivers across a complex clinical portfolio. You will help ensure that the right conversations happen at the right time, supported by clear data, thoughtful analysis, and practical recommendations. Beyond day-to-day portfolio management, this role also contributes to shaping better planning processes, stronger governance, and more effective cross-functional decision-making. It is well suited to someone who is comfortable working across detail and strategy, and who is motivated by improving how the organisation plans, prioritises, and delivers. 

Essential for the role 

• Strong experience in portfolio management, project management, resource planning, or a related discipline within a complex matrix environment. 

• Experience working with demand and capacity planning, portfolio analysis, or business planning processes. 

• Ability to analyse complex information and translate it into clear, decision-ready insights for senior stakeholders. 

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to work across functions and governance forums. 

• Experience using planning systems, data tools, and reporting or visualisation approaches to support business decisions. 

• A continuous improvement mindset, with experience improving processes, ways of working, or planning approaches. 

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to prepare and present clear, concise materials for leadership audiences. 

Desirable for the role 

• Experience in clinical supply, pharmaceutical development, or another life sciences portfolio environment. 

• Knowledge of portfolio governance, resource councils, or cross-functional planning processes. 

• Experience supporting digital, automation, or systems improvement initiatives related to planning or portfolio management. 

• Experience working with tools such as PLANIT, Power BI, Excel-based planning models, or similar portfolio and reporting systems. 

• Experience leading cross-functional improvement activity, coaching others, or acting as a recognised point of contact for planning and governance. 

Date Posted

09-lip-2026

Closing Date

18-lip-2026

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.