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.
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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
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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