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To guide the IT organization in his ambition, our client looking for an experienced and driven consultant who can act as 'Senior Program Officer' to take the lead in making the IT programs value-driven.
The consultant is expected to have relevant experience and references with regard to setting up and supervising complex programs.
The IT Project Manager will mainly interact with internal teams & departments. The focus is on the PM-skills rather than a strong technical background.
Primary Tasks and responsibilities
• Monitoring the strategic objectives and benefits to be achieved
• Translation of the value of the IT programs into the benefits & KPIs to be achieved in capabilities and projects through. a benefit map approach
• Create an overview of longer-term capacity needs based on generic profiles
• Setting up a financial framework in which the allocation and monitoring of budgets or availability of financial resources is made uniform
• Defining and assessing the impact of possible changes on the organization
• Clear planning of the different phases with an overview of the different initiatives, their dependencies and risks and assumptions
• Setting up clear roles & responsibilities with associated governance
• Mapping and developing an approach to manage the various stakeholders and provide reporting according to their needs
• General program coordination using a uniform methodology for the program and underlying projects
Secondary Tasks and responsibilities
o Promote project management activities through positive and constructive networks.
o Deploy and develop an active and consistent communication with different stakeholders.
Technical profile requirements
• Higher education (Master or Bachelor) or equivalent through experience.
• Demonstrable experience in technical environments in which the projects and programs are situated.
• At least 5 years of experience in setting up and supervising programs.
• Capacity to oversee multiple individual projects and programs, and to manage and optimize the substantive connections between them based on: program methodology
• Applied experience within both waterfall and agile environments
• Demonstrable knowledge of MS Office (Powerpoint, Excel).
• Very good knowledge of the terminology, organization, roles and processes of the PM methodology. Be able to transfer relevant expert knowledge.
• Very good knowledge of a program management methodology (Benefit map, Program planning (roadmapping), stakeholder involvement, change management, long-term capacity planning based on generic profiles, risk & issue management, ...).
• Good knowledge of NL, FR and EN
Non-Technical profile requirements
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be able to work on multiple simultaneous tasks with limited supervision
• Quick learner, motivated self-starter
• Result oriented & customer centric
• Structured / Organized
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and team collaboration skills
• High accountability and team spirit values
• Very good coaching & training skills
Language proficiencies
• Native French or Dutch + knowledge of the other language
• ENG
Location
• min. 2 days/week onsite presence in Anderlecht is mandatory