Do you have 10 years experience leading large scale infrastructure programmes? We are searching for an experienced Programme Manager for a public sector client in Brussels Belgium.
Requirements:
- Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Programme Management for Infrastructure projects
- Proven experience with large scale IT infrastructure implementations programmes
- Practical experience with methodologies such as Prince 2, ITIL
- Practical experience of working with onshore and nearshore resources
- Understanding of Red Hat Linux, Virtualisation and Cloud
- Education: University degree in IT or equivalent professional certification
- Must be detail oriented, analytical, and demonstrating ability to work in complex international environments.
- Working experience with EU clients or other public institutions is an added value.
- Languages: English (fluent); French (desired)
Job description
The Program Manager is responsible for the overall management of a portfolio of projects, consisting of small and medium sized projects within the client’s organisation. The candidate will be responsible for the identification, planning and coordination of a set of projects, often related and interdependent, for cloud migration and data centre services.
The successful candidate should have a good appreciation of infrastructure, cloud services (public, hybrid and on-prem), understand the challenges involved in delivering such complex projects, and therefore should bring experience and know-how to ensure the successful execution of projects of this nature.
This role will require the candidate to deal with senior stakeholders within the client and customer’s organisation, therefore strong leadership and communication skills are key.
Furthermore the candidate should be structured, PM methodology lead, able to lead a diverse team, embed structure and process, to organize, manage and deliver projects to time, cost and quality.
Responsibilities
- Providing strategic guidance to the team
- Supervising the agreement of business requirements with the customer, and translation of requirements into operational plans
- Supervising the progress of the operations and acting as escalation point for the delivery teams when necessary
- Monitoring the progress of the ongoing projects activities and their inter-dependencies, managing the risks and the issues raised by the project managers
- Ensuring that provision of the service is having the appropriate level of quality and is in accordance with contractual KPIs and initial business case
- Managing the contract’s P&L, monitoring the actual costs against the forecasted project margin (accountable for the profitability of the program)
- Defining the overall programme governance
- Managing the communication with all the contract’s stakeholders.
- Reporting the status of the program during period contract reviews and other specific operational reviews
Work conditions
Flexible working, with a preference for client site in Brussels, Belgium
