Strategic Program Lead - AI-Driven Delivery & Change

RELX Inc.; Paris; On-site; EUR 78,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Paris seeks a senior Program/Project leader to drive large, cross‑functional initiatives across regions and functions. You will define strategy, governance, and delivery plans, manage risks, and partner with executives to measure value and benefits post‑launch.

The role emphasizes change management, executive communication, and leveraging AI-enabled tools to improve delivery quality.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive project and program management experience, including independent leadership of complex, cross-functional programs or multiple related projects.
• Ability to create program strategy, integrated plans, governance, and executive decision structures in ambiguous environments.
• Proven success influencing senior stakeholders, negotiating priorities and resources, resolving cross-functional conflict, and leading without direct authority.
• Experience managing program risks, dependencies, budgets or investments, delivery performance, change impacts, and benefits or outcome measures.
• Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills, including the ability to translate complex information into clear decisions and actions.
• Experience using data and modern project, collaboration, automation, or AI-enabled tools to improve program delivery and decision support.
• Working knowledge of responsible AI practices, including output validation, human oversight, data protection, transparency, and appropriate escalation.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead major programs that may span multiple business areas, products, regions, or functions. Define the program strategy, objectives, roadmap, operating model, governance, decision rights, and integrated delivery plan. Maintain accountability across stakeholders and capture dependencies and decision points.
• Identify and manage program-level risks, issues, dependencies, constraints, and change impacts. Establish mitigation and contingency plans, remove blockers when possible, and escape material decisions with clear context and recommendations.
• Partner with sponsors and business owners to define value and success measures before delivery. Track benefits, adoption, readiness, and post-launch performance, and use health checks and retrospectives to address gaps.
• Create clarity in ambiguous or unprecedented situations. Frame options, surface assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and recommend a path forward using relevant business, customer, financial, operational, and delivery data.
• Align senior stakeholders on priorities, scope, sequencing, resources, and outcomes. Anticipate objections, resolve conflict constructively, and influence decisions without direct authority.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented communication for executives, delivery teams, and partners. Ensure stakeholders understand program health, changes, risks, trade-offs, decisions, and required actions.
• Lead the people side of change for assigned programs by assessing impacts, engaging affected stakeholders, supporting readiness, and reinforcing adoption of new products, processes, capabilities, or ways of working.
• Mentor project managers and other delivery professionals. Share judgment, tools, and practices that raise execution quality while preserving accountability with the individuals leading the work.
• Use approved AI and automation tools to improve program planning, research, knowledge synthesis, scenario analysis, risk identification, meeting and status synthesis, reporting, and other repeatable delivery activities. Remain accountable for the quality and integrity of program information, including information created or summarized with AI assistance.
• Identify opportunities to improve or simplify end-to-end ways of working. Test new approaches at an appropriate scale, define measures of success, capture lessons learned, and help scale practices that demonstrate value.
• Help teams adopt new tools and ways of working by explaining the purpose, setting appropriate guardrails, sharing effective practices, and addressing resistance or capability gaps.
• Challenge unclear outcomes, unsupported assumptions, duplicative work, or delivery approaches that do not support the intended business value.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Executive communication

Data-driven decision making

AI-enabled tools

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Paris seeks a senior Program/Project leader to drive large, cross‑functional initiatives across regions and functions. You will define strategy, governance, and delivery plans, manage risks, and partner with executives to measure value and benefits post‑launch.

The role emphasizes change management, executive communication, and leveraging AI-enabled tools to improve delivery quality.