Senior Data & Analytics Program Manager

ITS Group Benelux; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hospitalization insurance

Group insurance

Dental insurance

Company car or transport allowance

Mobile data plan

Training plan

Résumé du poste

ITS Group Benelux is seeking a Senior Data & Analytics Program Manager to drive a cloud data platform modernization and data governance initiative in Belgium. You will coordinate PMs, IT teams, architects, and partners to deliver value, manage risks, and ensure alignment with business outcomes.

You will lead governance, budgeting, and change management across projects, while ensuring compliance with data strategy and AI initiatives. Strong French, Dutch, and English required.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years as a Program Manager.
• Proven experience leading a cloud data platform modernization program with value of at least €1 million and/or ~20 FTE.
• Strong command of program and project management techniques (risk/issue, scope/change, budget/contingency, resource planning, dependencies, governance, reporting).
• Experience with data governance, data quality, data products, AI initiatives, or enterprise data transformation is a plus.
• Excellent communication, planning, and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent in French, Dutch, and English.

Responsabilités

• Orchestrate and integrate all projects within the Data & Analytics Program.
• Align business program lead, sponsor, PMs, IT, architects, and external partners.
• Establish consolidated governance: scope, budget, resources, risks, benefits.
• Prepare and facilitate Program Steering Committees and logs.
• Monitor milestones and ensure alignment with roadmap.
• Coordinate change management and stakeholder engagement.
• Oversee PMs and program resources to ensure delivery.
• Track program benefits and value realization.

Connaissances

Program management

Cloud data platform

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Multilingual (FR/NL/EN)

Energy sector experience

Leadership & facilitation

Formation

Project management certification (PMP/PgMP/MSP/PRINCE2)

Description du poste

Great assignments await you with our key account clients in rich and varied environments

Our client is looking for a Senior Program Manager to lead a strategic Data & Analytics transformation program.

The program aims to modernize the organization’s data capabilities through the implementation of a scalable cloud data platform, the deployment of a business-driven data governance and data quality framework, and the progressive migration of legacy data flows, datasets, and reports.

The Program Manager will ensure the integrated delivery of the program, coordinate the different projects and stakeholders, and maintain alignment between business value, IT delivery, architecture, budget, resources, risks, and expected benefits.

The Senior Data & Analytics Program Manager will:

• Orchestrate and integrate all projects and activities within the Data & Analytics Program.
• Align the Business Program Lead, Program Sponsor, Project Managers, IT teams, business stakeholders, architects, integrators, and external partners.
• Establish consolidated program governance covering scope, planning, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, benefits, and business value.
• Prepare and facilitate Program Steering Committees, including agendas, decision materials, action tracking, and decision logs.
• Play a leading role in operational governance, escalations, risk management, and program-level arbitrations.
• Monitor project milestones and ensure consistency between project deliverables and the overall program roadmap.
• Manage cross-project and external dependencies.
• Ensure architecture decisions are defined and validated through the appropriate governance bodies.
• Ensure that development, testing, migration, operationalization, and production constraints are properly integrated into the delivery roadmap.
• Coordinate change management, stakeholder engagement, communication, and adoption activities.
• Oversee Project Managers and key program resources to secure delivery and resolve critical issues.
• Anticipate and coordinate human, technical, and financial capacity across the program.
• Ensure consistent application of the organization’s project and program management methods, processes, and tools.
• Track and consolidate program benefits, value realization, budget consumption, and delivery performance.
• Support the transition towards a business-domain-based data product operating model.
• Follow up on AI-related initiatives included within the Data & Analytics Program.

The Program Manager will be accountable for overall program delivery, while business ownership of outcomes and value realization will remain with the Business Program Lead.

You have the following skills

Mandatory requirements

• At least five years of demonstrable experience as a Program Manager.
• Proven experience leading a cloud data platform modernization program with a value of at least €1 million and/or involving approximately 20 FTE.
• Strong command of program and project management techniques, including:
  • Risk and issue management
  • Scope and change management
  • Budget and contingency management
  • Resource and capacity planning
  • Dependency management
  • Governance and consolidated reporting
  • Benefits and value realization
• Good understanding of modern data platform mechanisms, including compute, storage, cloud architecture, data migration, scalability, and FinOps.
• Experience coordinating multiple Project Managers, technical teams, business stakeholders, architects, integrators, and external partners.
• Experience within the energy sector.
• Excellent communication, presentation, planning, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to structure complex information and support senior-level decision-making.
• Strong flexibility, stress resistance, and ability to manage escalations and conflicting priorities.
• Very good written and spoken French, Dutch, and English.
• Ability to work in line with values based on collaboration, reliability, and impact.
• The supplying company must not be involved in the public procurement procedure related to the modernization of the data platform.

Strong assets

• Project or program management certification such as PMP, PgMP, MSP, PRINCE2, or an equivalent certification.
• At least two years of experience in the energy sector.
• Experience with data governance, data quality, data products, AI initiatives, or enterprise data transformation.
• Experience working in a large-scale environment involving both business and IT stakeholders.
• You have at least 5 years of professional experiences in IT
• If you are at least fluent in FR/ENG/ NL It’s best
• You’re eager to learn, motivated and curious

Advantages

• Hospitalization insurance (partner/children incl.)
• Group insurance
• Dental insurance (partner/children included)
• 20 days statutory paid vacations (legal vacations cumulated for 1 year of work)
• 11 days recovery time work 38/40 per year (= annual average: 1 day per 20 days worked) if the client asks you to work 8h/day
• Representation fee net per month.
• Internet fee of € 40 per month.
• Company car with national fuel card OR Public transport reimbursed OR mobility package.
• Daily fee of 5.50€ net /day provided.
• Subscription GSM unlimited calls for Belgium (ITS subscription)
• Training plan (e-learning - certification at ITS charge)
• Being a rather small team in BE (6 in back-office), we’re very close to each of our consultants and we differentiate ourselves trying to really take care of you and make you grow with us and within our different clients.
• Regular follow-up (every 3 to 6months depending on your needs/will)
• Regular teambuilding to meet-up and have fun (every 3 months more or less)
• Flexibility and trust
• Benefits of still being part to a bigger group (ITS Group) and having access to resources and of a larger team of Experts
• Co-optation system because sharing is caring!

For more than 25 years, ITS Group has been a French ESN specializing in digital transformation, employing around 1,400 employees across 8 agencies in France and 1 in Belgium.

Our expertise: IT infrastructure & operations, cloud & managed services, mobility, workstations & networks, strategy, consulting & AMO, cybersecurity, development of business applications.

ITS Group places its CSR commitment at the heart of its concerns by developing sustainable and responsible digital technology and by promoting the professional and personal development of its employees.

Find out more: www.itsgroup.com