Senior Program Manager | Yuma

Yuma; Namen; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Yuma is seeking a highly experienced Senior Program Manager to steer a complex transformation program in the Benelux. You will focus on planning, delivery discipline and results, closely managing the implementation partner, ensuring commitments and deadlines are met, and actively identifying opportunities to recover lost time.

You’ll work alongside an internal Program Manager and team, establishing credibility with stakeholders while driving progress and maintaining a hands-on, collaborative

Qualifications

• Strong planning, governance and execution discipline.
• Highly assertive and results-oriented, with the ability to challenge and secure commitments.
• Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and escalation skills.
• Ability to establish authority while integrating smoothly with an existing team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, combining firmness with diplomacy and emotional intelligence.
• Ideally, proven experience taking over delayed or challenging programs and bringing them back on track.

Responsibilities

• Plan, govern and drive delivery discipline for the transformation program.
• Closely manage the implementation partner, ensuring commitments and deadlines are met.
• Prevent delays and actively identify opportunities to recover lost time.
• Collaborate with the internal Program Manager and team to maintain momentum and alignment.

Skills

Planning & governance

Assertive & results-driven

Stakeholder management

Authority & team integration

Interpersonal skills

Program recovery

Job description

We are looking for a highly experienced and assertive Senior Program Manager to help bring a complex transformation program firmly back on track.

The main focus will be on planning, delivery discipline and results: closely managing the implementation partner, ensuring commitments and deadlines are met, preventing further delays and actively identifying opportunities to recover lost time.

The candidate will work alongside an existing internal Program Manager and team. Strong interpersonal skills will therefore be essential to establish credibility and authority while building constructive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.

Profile

• Strong planning, governance and execution discipline
• Highly assertive and results-oriented, with the ability to challenge and secure commitments
• Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and escalation skills
• Ability to establish authority while integrating smoothly with an existing team
• Excellent interpersonal skills, combining firmness with diplomacy and emotional intelligence
• Ideally, proven experience taking over delayed or challenging programs and bringing them back on track

Why Yuma?

At Yuma, you’re given space. Space to grow, to experiment, and to shape your own path. We have a strong focus on knowledge sharing. You will work on complex digital challenges in teams where collaboration and curiosity are key.

What You’ll Get From Us

A great team where you’re given the freedom to innovate. You’ll also collaborate with and gain insight into highly professional and impactful organizations. Yuma builds sustainable partnerships: with clients and with you.

About Yuma

Yuma is an end-to-end digital transformation group in the Benelux. AI, data, and software development are key drivers of change, but we believe there is no digital transformation without human transformation. That’s why we combine a people-centric mindset with a hands-on approach and best-in-class expertise.

Our teams build smart, responsible solutions that solve real-world challenges and create meaningful impact: for organizations and the people behind them.