Program Manager

RiverBank S.A.; Paris; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

RiverBank is seeking a Program Manager to orchestrate high-value improvement workstreams across Lending, Savings, and Invoice Finance. You will resolve internal resource constraints and manage a hybrid delivery model to ensure strategic milestones are met, acting as the central traffic controller for program outcomes.

You will collaborate with Product Managers and technical leads to translate business objectives into deliverable work packages, monitor risks, budgets, and stakeholder

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder management across multiple complex relationships.
• Highly familiar with AGILE methodologies.
• Experience in financial services and leading organizational change.

Responsabilités

• Owns the overarching program roadmap and delivery plan, synchronising workstreams to align with the CPO’s strategic goals.
• Defines, tracks, and reports on program health, maintaining governance and risk/compliance standards.

Connaissances

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Communication excellence

Description du poste

Job Description

As we grow our proposition, we are seeking a Program Manager to orchestrate the delivery of high-value improvement workstreams across Lending, Savings, and Invoice Finance. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will resolve internal resource constraints and manage a hybrid delivery model to ensure strategic milestones are met. Your role is to act as the central "traffic controller," tracking program outcomes and monitoring operational readiness to ensure a seamless transition from build to launch.

Core Responsibilities

• Owns the overarching program roadmap and delivery plan, synchronising workstreams to ensure alignment with the Chief Product Officer’s strategic goals
• Understands resource constraints, internal bottlenecks, and business context
• Identifies potential delivery risks and drives resolution to ensure workstreams remain on track
• Owns the program-level governance, maintaining a hybrid waterfall-agile framework to track milestones, dependencies, and budgets across all active projects
• Works closely with Product Managers and technical leads to ensure high-level business objectives translate into achievable delivery and manageable work packages
• Defines, tracks, and reports on program health, tracks workstream delivery of business value and adheres to the bank's internal risk and compliance standards
• Effective collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders (Risk, Legal, Finance, and IT) Reviews operational readiness and program milestones to ensure all delivery criteria and regulatory requirements are met before a product or feature is transitioned to live
• Manages executive stakeholder expectations, providing the CPO and board with transparent communication regarding program progress, budget tracking, and resource hotspots

Profile required

Essential Experience

• 5+ years in the financial services industry in Europe, ideally with expertise in the SME market
• Experience of launching new platforms across multiple countries
• Demonstrable experience of leading organizational change
• Has worked in AGILE teams and organizations

Technical Skills

• Strong stakeholder management across multiple complex relationships
• Highly familiar with AGILE methodologies

Core Competencies

• Stakeholder management - Ability to build strong relationships
• Entrepreneurial spirit - Thrives in startup/scale-up environments with ambiguity and limited resources
• Self-starter - Takes initiative, manages priorities independently, and drives projects to completion
• Communication excellence - Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in either French, Dutch or Spanish with additional European languages highly valued
• Creative problem-solving & an innovative approach to finding solutions

Education

Experience dependent.

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about fintech innovation and SME financing
• Comfortable with regulated financial services environment
• Results-oriented with strong attention to detail
• Adaptable and resilient in fast-paced, evolving organization
• Team player who embodies RiverBank's values of integrity, excellence, and collaboration

Company Description

RiverBank is one of Luxembourg's fastest growing financial services companies. We are a client focused corporate lender, dedicated to funding SMEs across Europe, with an initial focus in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and Spain. We have ambitious plans to grow, at pace, to support thousands of SMEs and medium size corporations to invest in and build their businesses.

We are recruiting people who are excited to build a bank on a mission to make a difference to small and medium businesses across Europe, who can help us continue to build momentum, bring customers and help shape the pan-European SME bank of the future. We want people who are passionate about building relationships with clients and able to market lending solutions that will work for all stakeholders.

RiverBank is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

On 3/4/2026