Program Manager – Finance & Procurement H/F

Program Manager – Finance & Procurement H/F

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The Program Manager is a direct report of the Programme Director in the Finance & Procurement transformation team.

Responsibilities

The Program Manager is responsible for maintaining the overall Finance & Procurement Roadmap and managing the arbitration forum to align project‑related priorities, providing a clear overview for decision making from top management, capacity planning for project contributors, explaining and improving GEODIS project management methodology in close collaboration with project managers and PMOs, performing some quality review on projects in Finance and procurement scope (FIT project included), acting as project manager if needed, managing/coaching a team of one project manager and two PMO projects, following the capacity plan for his team to add required external project management capacity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor and update the Programme Roadmap & Planning; ensure the accuracy and exhaustivity of the Programme Roadmap (Finance & procurement), its governance and reporting (including capacity plan); work with project managers to understand critical paths, solve potential conflicts and discrepancies, identify major risks and alert owners to mitigation actions at Programme level.
• Provide KPIs to help in project contributors capacity plan management and risk management.
• Monitor project dependencies (Finance and procurement projects) and serve as contact for other projects that could impact the roadmap.
• Own Programme governance to ensure decisions related to the roadmap are taken on time, with adequate level of preparation and documentation.
• Promote project Methodology and manage continuous improvement (lean and agile approach) with the project managers; monitor evolution in project management methodologies (e.g., contributions of AI to project management).
• Budget Management: work in close collaboration with the Programme Director and Finance team to follow monthly closing, budget (including Capex monitoring), timesheet and external contracts for the projects managed in his team.
• Documentation & Quality assurance: implement Project Quality standards; organize the Quality assurance review process defined and agreed with the Programme Director; act as 4‑eyes review when required on the project deliverables.
• Governance and committees (not in the Roadmap Governance): collaborate with FIT teams and other project teams to provide insights for Steering Committees, Design Authority, Change Board.
• May manage one project, depending on availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10 to 15 years of proven experience as a Project Manager in finance or procurement processes, preferably in finance or procurement transformation, in an international context.
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills.
• Strong relationship and communication skills to build and maintain an internal network with all stakeholders.
• Capacity to present to CxO scenarios for decision making.
• Tenacious, autonomous, and able to be agile and adapt to a variety of stakeholders with different professional or cultural backgrounds.
• Analytical skills and ability to quickly assess a situation or a problem and propose decisions based on facts.
• Proficiency in project management tools and MS Office Suite.
• Initial experience in management (direct reports in addition to project teams).
• Project Management certification (PMP, Prince2, SAFe or others).
• Fluency in English; other language skills are an advantage.
• BAC+5 / MASTER.