Senior Manager, Front-End Portfolio Management (m/f/d)

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and continuously enhance the Sensing Front-End Engine and portfolio governance processes , ensuring transparency, alignment, and effective decision-making across the organization
• Build, maintain, and prioritize a portfolio of growth opportunities by translating customer needs, market trends, emerging technologies, and strategic priorities into validated investment opportunities
• Lead selected strategic initiatives , including new business opportunities, strategic partnerships, and M&A-related assessments, from early exploration through recommendation and decision-making
• Drive portfolio prioritization and resource allocation discussions , ensuring investment decisions are aligned with business priorities, available resources, and long-term growth ambitions
• Partner closely with Product Management, Segment Management, Commercial, R&D, Supply Chain, and senior leaders to accelerate opportunity development, strengthen alignment, and support execution

You will also help build Front-End capabilities across the organization by coaching opportunity owners and promoting a consistent, evidence-based approach to opportunity evaluation and portfolio management.

What We're Looking For

• A degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field, combined with significant experience in strategy, business development, product management, portfolio management, or similar commercial roles within a technology-driven organization
• Proven experience identifying, validating, and developing growth opportunities, turning market insights, customer needs, and business objectives into clear recommendations, business cases, and investment priorities
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to make sound decisions in complex environments and balance opportunity potential with business priorities and resource constraints
• Experience working across functions and influencing stakeholders in areas such as engineering, sales, operations, supply chain, and senior leadership
• A collaborative and proactive mindset, with the ability to build networks, create alignment, and help teams move from ideas to decisions and results

Experience with sensing technologies, particularly pressure, gas, or temperature sensing, is an advantage. Knowledge of the HVACR, data center, water, or off-highway industries, as well as experience with strategic partnerships, business development, or M&A activities, would also be beneficial.

As many of our primary stakeholders are located in Nordborg you will be expected to be on site frequently to build a strong relation with them.

What You'll Get from Us

You'll help engineer a better future by contributing to solutions that make a real difference around the world.

This is a unique opportunity to influence the long-term growth strategy of a global business, working on some of the most important decisions shaping the future of Sensing Solutions. You'll collaborate with senior leaders, gain exposure across the value chain, and help bring new technologies, partnerships, and business opportunities to life.

We promote development from within and support learning through collaboration, mentoring, training and access to global opportunities.

You will have flexibility, autonomy and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. We strive to create an inclusive working environment where people of different backgrounds and perspectives are respected and valued.

Benefits may include annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance and other locally applicable benefits.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.

For information about the recruitment process , please contact Talent Acquisition Partner, Gerd Veierskov, +45 3

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Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.

Our solutions are used in areas such as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, marine, and on- and off-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for data centers, renewable energy, energy storage, heat recovery, as well as contribute to district energy solutions for cities.

Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned and employs over 39,000 people. We create long-term value for our customers in more than 100 countries with a global footprint of around 100 factories.

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