Function
Introduction
Are you passionate about shaping and improving IT services from concept to retirement? As a Service Portfolio, Catalogue & Request Expert, you play a key role in ensuring that services are clearly defined, governed, visible, measurable, and continuously enhanced throughout their entire lifecycle.
You bridge the gap between portfolio strategy, service catalogue management, and request fulfilment, ensuring services are not only approved and funded but also easily accessible, requestable, operationally effective, and aligned with business needs. Working closely with service owners, delivery teams, governance bodies, and ITSM stakeholders, you help drive service excellence, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Function Description
The Service Portfolio, Catalogue & Request Expert is responsible for maintaining an end-to-end view of services across their full lifecycle, from demand intake and service design through approval, catalogue publication, operational delivery, performance monitoring, continuous improvement, and retirement.
The role ensures that services are accurately represented in the service portfolio and catalogue, supported by standardized request processes, and governed through consistent data, ownership, performance insights, and lifecycle management practices.
You provide strategic and operational guidance to improve service quality, optimize service consumption, support governance decisions, and enhance the end-user experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and govern the service portfolio throughout the full service lifecycle.
- Ensure services have clear ownership, business value, performance metrics, cost visibility, and risk management.
- Maintain and continuously improve the catalogue of technical infrastructure services, ensuring accurate, complete and user-friendly service offerings.
- Partner with service owners and delivery teams to keep services aligned with business and operational needs.
- Design and govern standardized service request processes, workflows, and fulfilment models.
- Drive automation, standardization, and self-service capabilities to enhance efficiency and user experience.
- Monitor service performance, demand, SLA compliance, costs, and risks to support informed decision-making.
- Provide insights and recommendations to stakeholders while supporting governance and continuous improvement initiatives.
Your Profile
- Bachelor's or Master's degree, or equivalent experience in IT Service Management, Service Portfolio Management, IT Governance, or a related field.
- Proven experience in service portfolio, service catalogue, ITSM, or service governance environments.
- Strong understanding of service lifecycle management and IT service management best practices (ITIL knowledge is a strong asset).
- Experience working with service catalogues, request fulfilment processes, workflow governance, and ITSM platforms.
- Knowledge of portfolio management, change management, and operational service delivery.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to transform data into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Experience collaborating with infrastructure engineers, technical service owners, or other technical IT teams.
- Ability to facilitate governance discussions and influence decision-making at different organizational levels.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on simplification, standardization, automation, and user experience.
- Fluent in translating strategic objectives into practical service management processes and improvements.
Offer
- Salary: a competitive salary package, allowance for representation expenses, year-end bonus, double vacation pay, meal vouchers (€10 per working day), eco-vouchers, sport & culture vouchers, bonuses based on individual and group results.
- Insurance: group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, ambulant care insurance for the whole family and also personal accident insurance.
- Vacation: You will be entitled to 20 vacation days and 5 additional vacation days, 6 local days, 4 exempt days (after 1 year of employment) and up to 5 long-service days (1 day for every 3 years in employment).
- Social fund: Year-end vouchers, birth and marriage allowance. We will also cover part of the cost of glasses, a dental prosthesis or similar needs.
- Communication: you will be given an iPhone, a phone subscription (for work and private use) and a laptop with internet reimbursement.
- Discounts: you will enjoy a 30% discount on your gas and electricity bill.
- Mobility: we will offer you a company car and public transport or a mobility budget.
- Elia shares: Elia will give you the opportunity to subscribe to shares with a discount of 16.66% on the average share price.
Location
Vilvoordselaan 126, 1000 Brussels.