Senior Project Manager - Digital Payments & PCI-DSS

Adjugo; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

STIB’s Sales Solutions department seeks an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the renewal of acquiring/PSP services, coordinate PCI-DSS compliance, and align payment systems with a future service model. You will work with Purchasing, Finance, Legal, Security and Architecture across STIB payment processes.

The role requires 7–10 years in complex projects, strong procurement experience, and English working proficiency. Hybrid work with on-site presence 2–3 days/week at STIB sites is required.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex IT procurement projects.
• Payments industry experience incl PSP and acquiring.
• Proven PCI-DSS project leadership.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders.
• Public procurement experience.
• Budget management and reporting proficiency.
• English proficiency at professional level.

Responsibilities

• Lead acquiring/PSP renewal from needs definition, tender-specification preparation and contract award through technical deployment, operational implementation and transition to the future service model.
• Lead PCI-DSS certification of the existing payment ecosystem, compliance delivery and preparation for future annual certifications.
• Analyse payment systems and existing contracts.
• Gather, consolidate and challenge business, technical, financial and regulatory requirements from the different stakeholders.
• Define acquiring/PSP strategy for the target ecosystem.
• Prepare decision dossiers and associated public procurement procedures.
• Coordinate Purchasing, Finance, Legal, Security, Architecture and stakeholders involved in STIB payment processes.
• Lead impact analysis across STIB sales and payment systems.
• Coordinate transition activities between existing payment services and the future acquiring/PSP model.
• Manage risks, dependencies, budgets and schedules.
• Prepare and monitor transition, integration, testing and production-release phases.
• Facilitate project and steering committees and provide regular reporting to management.
• Lead the PCI-DSS certification workstream for the relevant payment scope, coordinating internal and external stakeholders and tracking compliance actions, risks and dependencies.
• Establish a structured, sustainable approach to preparing and managing future annual PCI-DSS certifications and incorporate these requirements into payment-ecosystem evolution.

Skills

Complex project management

Payments / PSP / acquiring

PCI-DSS compliance leadership

Stakeholder coordination

Tender specifications drafting

Public procurement

Budget management

Risk & dependency management

Project governance

English proficiency

Tools

Public procurement frameworks

PCI-DSS related tools

Job description

STIB’s Sales Solutions department seeks an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the renewal of acquiring/PSP services, coordinate PCI-DSS compliance, and align payment systems with a future service model. You will work with Purchasing, Finance, Legal, Security and Architecture across STIB payment processes.

The role requires 7–10 years in complex projects, strong procurement experience, and English working proficiency. Hybrid work with on-site presence 2–3 days/week at STIB sites is required.