Programme Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and manage cross-workstream alignment, dependencies, and critical paths throughout the entire programme lifecycle.

• Define, manage, and continuously enhance programme-level artefacts, governance, and reporting to facilitate decision-making and assurance.

• Deliver clear, insight-driven executive reports to senior clients and Valtech leadership, emphasizing risks, opportunities, and recommendations.

• Oversee programme assurance, which includes conducting regular health assessments and implementing proactive interventions.

• Shape and launch new initiatives and opportunities within the engagement.

• Identify and promote enhancements to delivery models, team structures, and operational methods.

• Serve as an escalation point for intricate delivery, commercial, or stakeholder issues.

• Ensure that delivery outcomes are in line with strategic client objectives and long-term account goals.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in leading complex programmes with multiple concurrent workstreams, teams, and senior stakeholders.

• Proven track record in managing large-scale programmes or portfolios, encompassing scope, budget, risk, and value realization.

• Established experience in overseeing project budgets.

• Exhibits commercial acumen, including management of programme financials, forecasting, and margin and efficiency optimization.

• Assists in opportunity shaping in partnership with Client Partners, converting ambiguous briefs into structured programmes and delivery strategies.

• Strong expertise in delivery assurance: evaluating programme health, pinpointing risks, gaps, and inefficiencies, and initiating corrective actions.

• Proven capability to design and enhance programme governance, operating models, and team structures.

• Experience utilizing data and performance metrics to guide decisions and promote continuous improvement.

• Comfortable influencing across various disciplines, markets, and levels of seniority.

• Upper-Intermediate level of English proficiency.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility, with remote and hybrid working options (dependent on the country).

• Career progression, featuring international mobility and professional development programs.

• Learning and development opportunities, providing access to state-of-the-art tools, training, and industry experts.