Programma Manager

Role Summary

Are you ready to help organizations with large-scale digital transformations and ensure that plans are not only devised, but also actually implemented and adopted?

At Sopra Steria Next we guide clients within the Public, Industry and Financial Services sectors through complex change processes where technology, data and people come together. Think of IT landscape migrations, data migrations, data-driven working/AI adoption and organization-wide transformation agendas with many dependencies.

As a Program Manager, you direct the delivery of complex transformation programs: you bring structure, direction and peace to complexity. You focus on results, involve stakeholders and dare to advise.

This role revolves around content, delivery and power to change. You work at the intersection of strategy and implementation and switch smoothly between management, business, IT and suppliers. You oversee the ecosystem of (digital) systems, processes and teams, and ensure that everything comes together in one realistic roadmap.

As a program manager you not only focus on individual projects, but on coherence, benefits, governance and adoption across teams and business units.

What are you going to do?

You work on extensive, complex programs with a clear digital component. Often organization-wide, with multiple work streams, suppliers and interests. You help customers realize their transformation agenda and implement it in the organization.

Your most important tasks

• You are ultimately responsible for the delivery of programs: scope, planning, budget, quality, risks and decision-making;
• You set up governance (steering groups, progress, escalations) and monitor the coherence between projects and work flows;
• You focus on change & adoption: you ensure that changes are understood, supported and applied;
• You move easily in a digital ecosystem (applications, integrations, data, chains) and keep an overview of dependencies;
• You are a trusted advisor: you dare to challenge the customer substantively and analytically, and advise based on facts, impact and feasibility;
• You work organization-wide and connect people across business units: IT, operations, data, security, compliance and suppliers;
• You contribute to the growth of Next: by sharing knowledge, coaching colleagues and helping to build propositions and approaches;

Nice if you also have

• PROSCI or demonstrable change management experience;
• Experience with data migrations, IT landscape migrations, cloud or platform transitions;
• Experience with data-driven working and/or guiding AI adoption in organizations;

Experience with chain management, integrations and dependencies between systems and teams.

Requirements

This is what you bring

• An HBO or WO diploma;
• 8–10 years of experience with complex (digital) transformations, preferably organization-wide;
• Demonstrable 3–5 years of experience as a Program Manager;
• You can deal with complexity in a multi-stakeholder and multi-vendor environment;
• You have demonstrable experience with change and adoption, including process, people and the design of governance and management;
• You combine consultancy skills with delivery: analytically strong, substantively sharp and you dare to advise;
• PRINCE2 and IPMA certification;
• You have experience within at least one of our sectors: Public, Industry or Financial Services, and you are preferably more broadly employable;

You speak and write excellent Dutch.

Benefits

• A role with visible impact on organizations that are in the middle of transformation;
• The opportunity to work on large, complex programs within Public, Industry and Financial Services;
• Plenty of room for craftsmanship, ownership and further developing your role as a trusted advisor;

A professional, people-oriented environment in which quality and collaboration are central.

We combine consulting, technology, AI and change. We do this from a European background, with attention to digital sovereignty, security and public values. We like to work with customers and each other in the long term. You will be given space to shape your role and help build the team. You will become part of the transformation management team.

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About the Company

Sopra Steria is a leading European tech player known for its consulting, digital services and software development activities. And with success! With more than 51,000 colleagues in almost 30 countries, we are among the top European tech players. Successful organizations in Europe rely on our knowledge, technology and approach as we continue to strive for innovation, collaboration and business development.

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