A Snapshot of Your Day The position is central to steering a portfolio of approximately €1 B, providing high-quality planning, transparent budgeting, and essential decision support for the Executive Board. To meet these objectives, the role is structured around three core areas: strategic R&D; portfolio and budget management, functional excellence and process improvement, and the advancement of data analytics.
How You’ll Make An Impact R&D; Portfolio & Budget Management
Drive the integral R&D; budget cycle, ensuring the Executive Board receives transparent, scenario-ready decision documents based on strategy and data quality. Steer the R&D; portfolio against corporate strategy by identifying opportunities to accelerate, rebalance, or reduce investments, and prepare clear storylines for executive-level decisions.
Deliver high-quality analyses and materials that synthesize financials, technology value, and portfolio dynamics into concise insights for major decision forums.
Functional Excellence & Process Improvement
Advance functional excellence by driving standardization, harmonizing business case logic, and improving data governance across Business Areas.
Automate and enhance R&D; planning and reporting processes to make them faster, more reliable, and less dependent on manual effort, including deploying AI-based solutions to transform R&D; planning, reduce manual work, improve consistency, and accelerate the generation of insights.
Data Analytics & Strategic Initiatives




Build and scale data and digital excellence by developing dashboards, analytics workflows, and data products connected to the central R&D; database. Serve as a subject matter expert for the R&D; database, ensuring it remains the single source of truth for all R&D; data.
Support strategic initiatives such as the R&D; Academy to foster capability building, adoption of best practices, and future-ready R&D; management skills.
What You Bring
Master’s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Data/Analytics, or a related field. A Ph D is considered a plus.
5–7 years of professional experience in R&D; portfolio management, corporate strategy, controlling, PMO, or adjacent fields.
Experience in industries such as energy, industrial technology, aerospace, automotive, or management consulting is beneficial.
English fluency required.
Skills Financial & Data Analysis
Budgeting
Forecasting Business Analysis
Critical Thinking
Project and Process Management
Project Scoping
Process Improvement
Stakeholder Management
Risk Management
Change Management
Leadership and Communication
Executive-level Communication
Influencing Skills
Collaboration
Rewards / Benefits
Career growth and development opportunities
Supportive work culture
Company paid Health and wellness benefits
Paid Time Off and paid holidays
Savings Fund
Parental leave and family building benefits

📌 R&d planning project manager | r&d portfolio (Santiago de Querétaro)
🏢 Siemens Energy
📍 Santiago de Querétaro