Strategic Onboarding Programme Leader

Expleo Group; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical insurance

Pension plan

Life assurance

Wellbeing programme

Expleo Academy

Learning & development

Job summary

Expleo is seeking a Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager to provide leadership across large client onboarding programmes, owning the integrated plan, governance, and delivery controls to move complex onboarding through launch, conversion, testing, readiness, cutover and transition.

You will coordinate multiple workstreams, manage project managers and senior stakeholders, and drive delivery momentum with clear governance, risk management and escalation processes.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or relevant professional qualification.
• PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent certification.
• Experience with implementation lifecycle and SDLC documentation.
• Knowledge of compliance, AML and data protection in financial services.
• Leads teams with several years of leadership experience.
• PMP certification or equivalent programme/project management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall management of new client launches and conversions across multiple workstreams.
• Provide clear project focus, decision-making support, delivery momentum and senior stakeholder alignment.
• Own programme planning, reporting, governance cadence, dependency management and integrated delivery oversight.
• Act as primary point of contact for client and sponsor engagement across the Transfer Agency onboarding workstream.
• Manage and coordinate Project Managers and workstream leads to ensure coverage, accountability and delivery discipline.
• Monitor and control progress against signed-off plans, milestones, governance actions and critical path items.
• Troubleshoot across multiple concurrent workstreams and drive closure of complex delivery issues.
• Escalate key issues to the Head of New Business Onboarding and secure decisions or approvals where required.
• Ensure conversion runbooks, model office inputs, readiness outputs and transition plans are aligned to the programme plan.
• Lead internal senior management steering, project governance and client engagement forums.

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Risk management

Regulatory awareness

PM certification

Education

Undergraduate degree

PMP/PRINCE2

Tools

MS Office

PM software (MS Project)

Job description

Expleo is seeking a Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager to provide leadership across large client onboarding programmes, owning the integrated plan, governance, and delivery controls to move complex onboarding through launch, conversion, testing, readiness, cutover and transition.

You will coordinate multiple workstreams, manage project managers and senior stakeholders, and drive delivery momentum with clear governance, risk management and escalation processes.