Program Manager

Role description:

The program manager leads and manages company- wide large program teams in order to ensure timely delivery of major business initiatives, with respect of approved scope and budget.

Required Responsibilities:

- Deliver the program (and underlying projects) on time, on scope and on budget

- Coordinate and facilitate change within the different involved departments and escalate if required according to the program/project governance rules

- Set-up a program and project teams covering all impacted teams in the assigned domain of responsibility both for business and technical teams (end-to-end approach & governance)

- Define a clear and realistic program plan based on the internal customer roadmap

- Identify the deliverables and associated resources for the involved delivery teams as well as the timing

- Prepare the program budget and ensure its realization by closely following up and, if required, taking timely corrective actions

- Follow up program/project progress on a frequent basis (through the organization of the regular follow-up meetings) to enable close monitoring, thorough communication and proactive problem detection

- Proactively detect potential issues by monitoring the executing of the program/project tasks and trigger the appropriate actions

- Liaise on a continuous basis with management of the impacted department(s) to ensure that everyone is fully aware of the deliverabes (content+timing) his or her team is in charge of

- Report on program/project progress and issues

- Provide day to day management & coaching of the program team

- Ensure that all methodologies and procedures are known and applied by all team members

- Ensure full alignment of the planning with company-wide related initiatives

Degree & Experience:

- Many years of experience in Program and Project Management within complex environments

- Proven experience in IT Domain

- Proven experience in steering, setting pace and injecting life into the program, projects and teams, coordinating all aspects

Technical skills:

- Sound project methodology knowledge ( (PMI, Prince 2, Agile)

- MS Office Tools ( Word, Excel MS-Access, MS-project, Powerpoint)

Attitudes/Behavior:

- Proven leadership skills

- Motivator who can bring over the energy to the team

- Business acumen

- Negotiation & convincing skills

- Curious and eager to learn

- Dealing with ambiguity

- Result oriented

- Autonomous

- Influencer

- Good coaching skills, experience with steering a group of 5-10 project managers

- We need someone very motivated and commited

Languages: - Dutch - French - English