Senior Program Manager

Description

Project/Department Description and responsibilities

• Manage one or multiple major projects (concept, follow-up, implementation, evaluation, etc) within different domains who’s activities impact the entire organisation and clients within it’s scope. Scope range, timing, budget and quality are managed in accordance with internal and external processes’ of the company.

Primary Tasks and responsibilities

• Ensure well executed people management within different teams.

• Define timeline and mile stones of the projects.

• Assign tasks and responsibilities to the team members within different project groups.

• Managing the risks and issues related to the delivery.

• Clarify high-level scope and the technical synergies between the different sub-projects.

• Ensuring the compliance to standards and best practices across all projects.

• Manage a team of internal staff and/or external contractors.

• Be proactive in proposing technical solutions and innovations.

• Reporting progress, issues, risks etc. to the customer and to the program manager.

• Install a process of « project review » to make sure the continuous qualitative delivery is assured from the “lessons learned”.

• Self investment and participation to the creation of a « learning school » of the applied knowledge and tools used in the processes’ within different domains.

Secondary Tasks and responsibilities

o Promote project management activities through positive and constructive networks.

o Deploy and develop an active and consistent communication with different stakeholders.

o Conflict management (tech and non-tech).

o Facilitate the operational functionality of the project groups and other stakeholders.

o Help define the roles and responsibilities of the project teams and other stakeholders.

o Follow-up on possible change and deliverables related feedback from the customer on continuous bases.

Non-Technical profile requirements

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Must be able to work on multiple simultaneous tasks with limited supervision

• Quick learner, motivated self-starter

• Result oriented & customer centered

• Structured / Organized

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and team collaboration skills

• High accountability and team spirit values

Methodology/Certification requirements

• Master Degree in Computer Science OR equivalent through experience.

• +10 years experience in Program/Project Management in the IT Sector

• Very good of Planview, MS Project or equivalent.

Very good knowledge of enterprise government tools (ex: Clarus)

• Certified ITIL + Practitioner of ITIL method with min 5y hands-on practice.

• IBM oriented & Agile minded.

• Certified PRINCE2, PMI, or equivalent

Language proficiencies

• FR and/or NL

• Good notion of ENG

Hyper Recruitment Solutions Ltd (HRS) is an Equal Opportunities employer. We welcome applications from anyone who meets the role requirements. HRS exclusively supports the STEM sectors, combining recruitment expertise with scientific knowledge to help you advance your career.