Program Manager IT Security

Experienced Program Manager

Job description:

To lead and manage company-wide program teams ensuring timely delivery of major business initiatives, with respect of approved scope and budget.

The profile should have the ability to manage and communicate easily with top management/executives stakeholders.

For this mission, we are specifically looking for a Program Manager who successfully managed programs in the area of IT Security in large companies.

For this mission, we request 10 years of proven experience as dedicated Program Manager.

More globally, as a Program Manager, you will have the following responsibilities:
Deliver the program (and underlying projects) on time, on scope and on budget
Coordinate and facilitate change within the different involved departments
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
thereof
Prepare the program budget and ensure its realization by closely following up and if required, taking
timely corrective actions
Prepare together with the program sponsor the business case
Follow-up program/project progress on a frequent basis (through the organization of 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 departments to ensure that everyone is
fully aware of the deliverables (content + timing) his or her reports are in charge of
Ensure appropriate communication and coordination across (sub-)departments related to the project
If required, escalate program/project problems according to the program/project governance rules
Report on program/project progress (budget, timing and scope) and issues
Provide day-to-day management and 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 companywide related initiatives

Experience:
At least 10 years of experience in Program/Project Management within complex environments
In-depth knowledge of the Telecom environment at large
Proven experience in aligning business and technical needs in one integrated roadmap within the domain
of telecom
Proven experience in steering large and complex programs from an end-to-end perspective, coordinating
all aspects (business, IT, engineering, Finance, HR,...)
Good project methodologies (PMI, Prince2, ) knowledge

Profile:
Proven leadership skills to manage effectively your virtual project team & your stakeholders
You can deal with 'uncertainty' and are able to show expected composure in a continuous changing
environment.
You feel at ease to deal with ambiguity and to handle conflicts.
You are able to work autonomously
You are good at organizing project resources efficiently and effectively even while managing multiple
projects in parallel.
You can timely and effectively inform your project stakeholders (director level) and you know essentially
of secondary importance to distinguish.
You take initiatives and are result driven while thinking in terms of solutions.
You are familiar with Office tools (Word, Excel, MS-Access, MS-Project and Powerpoint).
Languages: English, Dutch and/or French