Presentation

The Federal Police is engaged in a large-scale digital and organizational transformation, aimed at modernizing its processes, strengthening operational efficiency, and better meeting the expectations of citizens and field services.

This transformation is driven by the Digital Transformation Office (DTO), the true strategic engine of the organization, under the responsibility of the Digital Transformation Officer. The DTO defines the digital strategy, leads the transformation office, and ensures the alignment of all initiatives with the strategy of the Federal Police and the Integrated Police.

Its actions are based on three complementary pillars: IT, innovation, and intelligence (Data).

The DTO operates within a global transformation framework structured around five major axes:

• Framing and structuring initiatives (intake, program management, target operating model, legal aspects),
• Foundations and standardization, including IT infrastructure modernization, security, data integration, and stabilization of the basics (“Fix the basics”),
• Transformation of business domains, both administrative and operational, and citizen-oriented,
• Innovation, with the integration of emerging technologies, notably Artificial Intelligence,
• Cross-functional governance, ensuring coordination between steering bodies and operational units, as well as support for change management.

You will join the DTO team within the Demand & Portfolio Management unit, in close collaboration with the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

The CTO is responsible for the overall technological vision and steering of the digital transformation. In this context, he has launched a mission to analyze, optimize, and structure IT activities, with the aim of improving effectiveness, efficiency, budget control, and clarifying responsibilities.

To support this approach, the CTO is looking for a Strategic Demand Manager whose main mission will initially consist of strengthening the structuring, analysis, and prioritization activities of IT requests, in compliance with the budgetary framework, public procurement rules, and organizational capacities, in order to prepare and support decisions to be made by the governance bodies.

Project

In a context of digital transformation and increasing budgetary constraints, the organization wishes to strengthen control over IT demand and improve the quality of decision-making upstream of initiatives. The project aims to implement a structured and pragmatic approach to demand management, allowing better alignment of IT initiatives with strategic priorities, available resources, and the applicable regulatory framework. It is based on a logic of transparency, prioritization, and optimization of public investments, while promoting enhanced collaboration between business, IT, and support functions.

Mission

The Strategic Demand Analyst supports the organization in structuring, analyzing, and prioritizing initiatives requiring IT support. The role aims to prepare and support decisions to be made at management and governance bodies level, by means of objective and integrated analyses concerning strategic alignment, relevance, feasibility, sustainability, and cost-benefit ratio.

The Strategic Demand Analyst works within a small team in the Digital Transformation Office and acts as a point of convergence between business, IT, and support services (PMO, Procurement, Architecture, Finance). He/she intervenes on both new requests and on the analysis, re-prioritization, and grouping of existing initiatives, in a complex organizational context.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and clarify business requests related to IT
• Assess the alignment of initiatives with the organization’s strategic objectives
• Evaluate the relevance, feasibility, sustainability, and added value of initiatives
• Develop light business cases (costs, benefits, risks, impacts)
• Ensure the adequacy of initiatives with available budgets, public procurement frameworks, skills, and resources
• Analyze, re-prioritize, and group existing initiatives and portfolios
• Prepare decision files and support governance bodies (e.g. demand board)
• Collaborate with PMO, Procurement, Architecture, and IT teams for information collection and validation
• Guarantee transparency, consistency, and comparability between initiatives

Purpose of the role

The purpose of the role is to improve the quality, speed, and transparency of decision-making regarding IT initiatives, by providing substantiated analyses enabling informed strategic choices and optimal use of available resources.

Skills and profile

• Excellent analytical and conceptual reasoning skills
• Good understanding of strategic challenges, digital transformation, and IT environments
• Ability to structure complex information and establish relevant links
• Strong quantitative skills (cost-benefit analyses, effort estimations, scenarios)
• Good communication skills and ability to translate complex analyses into clear elements for decision-makers
• Critical thinking, independent judgment, and objectivity
• Comfortable in complex, multidisciplinary, and evolving environments

Language skills

• French or Dutch native speaker
• Intermediate level in the other national language

In practice

Start date: 04/05/2026 (asap)
Duration: until end of 2026 (renewable next year)
Regime: Full-time (40h/week)
Work location: rue Royale 202A 1000 Brussels
Working conditions: Presence in the office at least 2 times per week depending on tasks and in agreement with the team, teleworking allowed (within Belgium)
Team: multidisciplinary, mix of internal and external collaborators