Programme Director

Mindbox is a tech-driven company that connects top IT talents with technology projects for leading enterprises across Europe, specializing in consulting, engineering, and talent development.

• 12+ years of experience in large-scale programme or portfolio leadership within data, engineering, or technology-driven transformation.
• Proven track record managing global change portfolios from strategy to execution within budget, risk, and quality standards.
• Deep hands-on understanding of platform and data migration, especially with SAS or similar analytics ecosystems.
• Expertise in risk management, governance frameworks, and regulatory controls within complex organisations.
• Strong stakeholder influence skills aligning executive and technical leaders on strategy, funding, and trade-offs.
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary, multi-regional teams within a matrix organisation.
• Excellent financial acumen including investment management, capacity planning, and budget governance.
• Experience applying Agile and hybrid delivery models to large, regulated programmes; SAFe certification is a plus.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for executive-level audiences.
• Fluent in English and comfortable presenting complex technical and strategic concepts to diverse stakeholders.

• Own the enterprise-level data and analytics transformation vision, strategic roadmap, and benefits realization.
• Define clear success metrics and implementation principles aligned with data architecture, risk appetite, and business priorities.
• Set enterprise priorities across modernization initiatives such as platform migration, code remediation, and legacy retirement.
• Drive measurable improvements in resilience, engineering standards, governance, and business value.
• Act as a senior transformation representative partnering with executives across technology, data, risk, and business functions.
• Align on target states, funding, sequencing, risk management, and enterprise-level decisions.
• Lead executive updates and governance forums presenting status, risks, trade-offs, and remediation actions.
• Direct programme portfolios by setting standards for scope, budget, milestones, and quality.
• Oversee migration and decommissioning activities ensuring proper testing, readiness, and risk controls.
• Maintain oversight of product roadmaps and operational handover activities while empowering Programme Managers.
• Resolve cross-programme dependencies and escalated delivery risks.
• Establish and own transformation-level governance frameworks, assurance, and quality standards.
• Act as the final escalation point for delivery risks and issues ensuring timely and evidence-based decisions.
• Govern change control, risk acceptance, and exceptions against policy and strategic tolerances.
• Provide transparent reporting on financials, benefits, dependencies, and delivery confidence.
• Own investment planning, capacity model, and financial forecasting across the transformation portfolio.
• Partner with architecture, engineering, and product teams to develop realistic resource forecasts and business cases.
• Govern funding requests and recommend re-sequencing or resource reallocation based on value, cost, and risk.
• Lead and develop distributed teams of Programme Managers and senior delivery specialists.
• Set clear performance expectations, drive delivery discipline, and build a collaborative culture of accountability.
• Coach leaders to strengthen delivery capability, governance consistency, and professional development.
• Direct supplier strategy and commercial negotiations holding vendors accountable for delivery, cost, compliance, and service.
• Ensure exit strategies, SLAs, and risk controls are embedded in supplier management plans.
• Lead the transition of new capabilities into steady-state operations including readiness, training, and support.
• Ensure clear ownership for post-implementation governance and continuous improvement.
• Track business adoption and benefit realization taking corrective action where necessary.