As a Project Manager within an organization's IT core, you are responsible for initiating, coordinating, and realizing organization-wide IT projects and change trajectories. You operate in a complex environment where continuity, security, compliance, service management, and digital transformation converge. You work closely with team managers, product owners, service managers, architecture, security specialists, suppliers, and stakeholders within the organization's regional entities.
You ensure that projects are executed predictably, controlled, and with broad support. In doing so, you maintain the balance between run, change, innovation, and compliance. Within the IT core, you work on trajectories that directly contribute to the organization's strategic movement towards a modern, omnichannel, and future-proof IT organization.
What you do
As an IT Core Project Manager, you lead complex IT projects and change trajectories within an organization-wide context. You ensure a clear project approach, monitor progress, risks, dependencies, budget, and quality, and manage multidisciplinary teams. You connect operational IT issues with strategic goals and ensure support from management, the CIO Office, regional entities, suppliers, and internal IT teams.
Additionally, where necessary, you guide RFI and RFP processes, from scope definition to supplier selection and handover for implementation.
Profile
You are a connecting project leader with strong organizational skills and a sense of administrative relationships. You maintain an overview in a dynamic environment, take responsibility for result areas, and know how to involve people in change. You easily switch between operational, tactical, and strategic levels and build support among various stakeholders.
What they ask
- HBO/WO (higher professional education/university) work and thinking level
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as an IT project leader, program manager, or delivery lead
- Experience within complex enterprise IT environments
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum and hybrid project methodologies
- Experience with stakeholder management at management level
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience in guiding RFI and RFP processes, including requirements formulation, market exploration, supplier selection, evaluation processes, and contract preparation
- Affinity with IT governance, service management, and security/compliance
- Strong communication skills, organizational sensitivity
Preferences.
- Experience within financial services or the insurance sector
- Knowledge of DORA, ITSM, cloud transitions, sourcing issues, and tender processes via RFI/RFP
- Experience with OKRs and value stream-oriented working
Competencies.
- Connecting leadership, results-orientation, organizational sensitivity, analytical ability
- Structuring complex environments, communicating clearly, building support, and effectively organizing collaboration between various stakeholders
Key Result Areas. Project and team management.
- Develop project plans, organize project teams, and guide internal and external stakeholders to achieve the desired results.
Governance and decision-making.
- Ensure clear documentation, reports, and decision-making, including towards the steering committee and management.
Stakeholder management.
- Inform, involve, and connect stakeholders within IT, business, regional entities, and external suppliers.
Progress, quality.
- Monitor planning, capacity, risks, and results, evaluate projects, and contribute to improving project management approach and methods.
General topics within the role. Within the role, you work on themes that contribute to a future-proof IT organization, such as IT continuity, DORA and IT Assurance, security and authorization management, cloud transition, and sourcing. Service management, governance development, value streams, roadmaps, OKRs, quarterly planning, and capacity management also play an important role. In doing so, you always maintain the balance between run, change, innovation, and compliance.
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