Program Manager (Disaster Recovery)

Program Manager (Disaster Recovery)

As a preferred supplier to one of our biggest Financial Clients, I am seeking for a Program Manager (Disaster Recovery) for a position in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The primary focus of this role is to oversee and manage four streams within the Recovery Program, ensuring adherence to regulatory timelines and integrated governance of shared objectives. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in driving the coordination and delivery of multiple projects, fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams, and implementing effective project management methodologies to meet program goals.

Responsibilities:

• Have a central role in delivering value through execution of the Program deliverables.
• Effectively drive our IT initiatives
• Support decision making boards with achieving critical milestones by improving projects and processes.
• Solid technical background
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the initiative lead / product owner and engage with key stakeholders.
• Are in frequent contact with the project team as well as parties throughout the organization.
• Create insight, oversight and control over the end-to-end change.
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope, and within budget.
• Focus on the objectives, progress, dependencies and dilemmas of initiatives.
• Ensure there is a clear roadmap and up-to-date and relevant overviews of status, decisions, impediments and dependencies.
• Analyze priority conflicts, strategic transition options and dilemmas and give advice
• Address dependencies across initiatives
• Initiate and facilitate deep dives to ensure there is a clarity on objectives and the required collaboration across the organization.
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors
• Align initiatives with the quarterly business review portfolio planning.
• Obtain synergies, by sharing relevant insight into deliverables of teams throughout the organization
• Develop your learning mindset

Requirements:

• You are a top talent and your behavior:courage, care, collaboration.
• You have a proven track record in successfully realizing complex (Agile) change initiatives
• You are pragmatic and are able to keep clear oversight
• You have strong knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.
• You have solid organizational skills
• You have excellent leadership, communication, and negotiation skills.
• You have experience being a sparring partner for senior management and a natural (informal) leader. Proven experience in IT project management, preferably in the banking sector.
• Your way of getting things done naturally makes you collaborate across silos and you have a track record in mobilizing people
• You have a holistic view, which you can easily translate into concrete actions.
• You have broad business knowledge and are able to translate this into governance, data, processes, organization and technology.
• You work and reason at a university level and have more than five years' experience
• You have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. An advanced degree or certification in Project Management is a plus.
• You have a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• You are familiar with project methodologies such as Scrum, PMP, PRINCE II and IPMA.
• You drive execution of change control procedures and assess change performance against Clearing key performance benchmarks.

Contract: 6+ months

Rates: Excellent

Location: Amsterdam

Interview: 2 stages

Nick Chinweerapunt

Account Manager

Gazelle Global Consulting

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