Program Management Consultant

Quick Facts

• Role: Program Management Consultant

• Work style: Remote

Description

You will support program leaders and stream leaders with planning and coordination across a large, multi-team transformation program. The role includes defining schedules, dependencies, milestones, and deadlines; monitoring execution; identifying and escalating risks, blockers, and inter-stream dependencies; and ensuring alignment of plans across teams. You will also prepare and facilitate status reviews, coordination meetings, committees, workshops, and recurring program status reports for executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assist in planning and coordination across program streams

• Maintain program schedules, milestones, and key dates

• Monitor progress by stream and identify coordination needs

• Identify blockers, risks, and cross-stream dependencies and support escalation/resolution

• Ensure consistency of plans and actions across multiple teams

• Prepare and run status reviews, coordination meetings, committees, and workshops

• Produce recurring reports on program status, key risks, dependencies, decisions, and attention areas

• Support decision materials for the program sponsor, steering committee, and management

• Coordinate capturing and documenting key decisions and resulting actions

• Support priority management and information flow across teams

• Propose and implement organizational and methodological improvements to increase program efficiency

• Collaborate with business, technology, and project teams to deliver aligned program goals

• Support communication between key program stakeholders

Requirements

• Experience on large, complex programs or projects in large organizations

• Experience in Program Management, Project Management, PMO, or coordination of complex initiatives

• Hands-on experience with planning, scheduling, and managing dependencies between teams/streams

• Experience identifying, monitoring, and escalating risks, blockers, and problems

• Ability to coordinate multiple teams and ensure execution consistency

• Experience preparing status reports, management materials, and presentations for senior leadership

• Experience preparing and facilitating status meetings, workshops, and program reviews

• Strong organizational skills for managing many dependencies and parallel initiatives

• Ability to work with diverse stakeholder groups (operational/project teams through sponsor and management)

• Analytical mindset to identify issues needing decisions or escalation

• Independent, responsible, and proactive work style

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Very good English

Benefits

• Opportunity to participate in a large, complex transformation program in an international organization

• Collaboration with program leaders, business/technology stakeholders, and leadership

• Develop experience in Program Management for large initiatives

• Work on multi-threaded efforts across many teams and organizational areas

• Influence the way program work is organized and run

• Remote work

• Multisport PLUS

• Private medical care