Program Manager – 28456

The Emerald Group; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Program Management Lead to drive portfolio execution and deliver tangible business value. In this pivotal role, you will work closely with senior leadership and stakeholders to align initiatives with strategic goals while fostering strong relationships with key customers. Your expertise in project management methodologies will be crucial in ensuring that standards are uniformly adopted across the organization. This role also offers the opportunity to travel across Europe for meetings and workshops, making it ideal for a dynamic professional eager to make an impact in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management and stakeholder engagement is essential.
• Professional certification in project management is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee portfolio execution to ensure delivery of business value.
• Collaborate with leadership to align initiatives with company strategy.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Business Development

Strategic Planning

Fluency in French

Education

Professional Project Management Certification (PMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP)

Job description

The Program Management Lead will oversee and manage portfolio execution, ensuring the delivery of tangible business value including revenue growth, process optimization and realizable productivity.

• Location: London
• Category: Business Development
• Type: Permanent

Key Duties (Including but not limited to):

• Work closely with senior leadership to understand the strategy and align the ABS workstream initiatives accordingly. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the initiatives / sub-initiatives identified for execution drive value and align with the strategy.
• Ensure that these standards are uniformly adopted and practiced across the entire organization.
• Develop strong relationships with key customers and partners.
• Evaluate the road map for all major customers’ long-term visions and help develop service offerings that appropriately match their business needs.
• Recognized and accredited professional project management training and certification (such as PMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP or equivalent) preferred but not required.
• Essential: Candidate must be able to travel to France / Europe for occasional meetings / workshops.
• Desirable: Candidate must be fluent/native in French.
• Candidate should have previous experience working in / for EMEA region.
• Deep experience in conducting integrated scoping and planning across multiple workstreams, regions and business units.
• Experience rolling out Business Capabilities, bringing new capabilities to market, and launching new services.
• Extensive understanding of Project and Program Management methodologies and structures and can demonstrate a pragmatic application of these appropriate to a given audience and/or situation.