Program Manager

A global energy company requires an experienced Programme Manager to manage the delivery of multiple projects valued in the range of €2-40M. As a member of the leadership team, you will have responsibility for the successful day to day delivery of allocated projects.

This is both a strategic and "hands on" multifunctional delivery role working across a number of key business areas including Finance, Procurement, HR and IT, to enable cost efficiencies and benefits to be achieved.

You will chair the weekly Programme Review Meeting and be an active member of the programme team, having circa 6 team members with a dotted line responsibility to them including the global programme delivery teams.

Responsibilities

- Working with Delivery Partners to ensure a Programme scope of work is established and responsibilities understood

- Creating a detailed, coherent programme plan which will deliver the outcomes required

- Shaping how the day to day activities detailed in the Programme Plan are delivered, monitoring and ensuring timely completion.

- Designing the Governance structure, and ensuring this is in place in order to facilitate effective programme delivery in line with quality, financial and key milestone targets

- Oversee identification, monitoring and challenging critical activities, programme risks and issues, designing and implementing mitigations as required, raising concerns with the Project Director in a timely manner

- Shaping the PMO function; ensuring PID, Budgets/Cost objects, RAID logs, Programme Status Reports, Compliance, Quality and other Programme documentation is maintained, monitoring and challenging the output to ensure this is robust and accurate, providing regular summary views to the Project Director/PLT/Governance forums as required

- Effectively managing the programme resourcing schedule to ensure the avoidance of bottlenecks and conflicting demands which could put Programme delivery at risk

- Ensuring design and delivery of effective delivery, including coordination of dependencies across delivery within and outside the Programme and working closely with the finance, HR, procurement and IT teams to ensure delivery of the client readiness elements of the programme

- Monitoring the performance of the third-parties against the Contractual agreement/scope, and raising any issues with the Project Director

Skills and Experience

• Significant portfolio project management experience
• Demonstrable success as senior Programme Manager for large, complex, matrix, multi-national corporate environments
• Delivery in a scaled agile environment across multiple product teams and portfolios (familiar with Scrum)
• Breadth of knowledge in digital technology solutions with strong leadership skills to influence Technology and Business Leaders
• Tenacious with a proven track record of managing a complex agenda at pace, with multiple priorities competing
• Credible and confident in engaging with Senior Executive Management
• Ability to lead, coach, mentor and develop programme resources, creating a sense of teamwork by pulling together the different cross-functional elements of the programme
• Experience in effectively managing and motivating a team to achieve high quality outputs to tight deadlines
• Excellent communicator and influencer with strong leadership skills and ability to present the message – a driver of change
• Able to work in a virtual team which may work across time zones, distance or remotely
• Budgetary management skills and experience

If you possess the relevant skills and experience, please submit your CV today!