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French Speaking Programme Manager

Nasstar
Remote, GBR
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Senior · 8+ years experience
Remote
Discovered 2 weeks ago
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Key Responsibilities

  • Programmatic Delivery Leadership: Own the end-to-end delivery plan, acting as the single source of truth while sequencing 40+ concurrent data product workstreams.
  • Strategic Governance: Run the full cadence of project governance, from daily stand-ups and sprint ceremonies to monthly Steering Committees and phase-gate reviews.
  • Cross-Functional Assurance: Maintain the joint RAID log, manage change control, and ensure all project artefacts (architecture, non-functional requirements, test strategy) are current.
  • Capacity & Resource Management: Oversee the full resourcing lifecycle—from mobilisation to ramp-down—while tracking effort, forecasting completion, and managing parallel embedded squads.
  • Risk & Dependency Oversight: Own the end-to-end risk register and manage critical cross-programme dependencies, particularly across cross-border, multi-country initiatives.
  • Bilingual Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for client leadership, facilitating communication, governance forums, and documentation in both French and English.
  • Translation of Business Domains: Bridge the gap between the francophone business domain and UK-based delivery capability, ensuring technical and business requirements are aligned.
  • Cross-Border Team Culture: Foster a cohesive, remote-embedded team culture across France and the UK, proactively managing time-zone friction and coordination.
  • Knowledge Transfer & Quality Ownership: Execute the knowledge transfer plan, ensure adherence to quality gates at every phase, and oversee final project closure and acceptance.
  • Regulatory & AI Compliance: Apply sustainability and Responsible AI assessments where applicable, ensuring all regulatory obligations are met through diligent governance.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • Full professional fluency in English and French (spoken and written).
  • Recognised programme management certification — MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP or equivalent.
  • Agile certification — Scrum Master, SAFe or equivalent. The engagement runs two-week sprints with full agile ceremonies.
  • Eight or more years managing complex, multi-workstream technology programmes, with at least three at genuine programme rather than project level.
  • Proven delivery of data platform or large-scale data migration programmes — Databricks, Spark or comparable lakehouse estates.
  • Track record running supplier-led governance from within a consultancy or systems integrator, accountable end-to-end to a client executive rather than reporting into a client PMO.
  • Demonstrable ownership of Time and Materials commercials: capped T&M, drawdown arrangements, burn tracking, day-rate resource models and timesheet-evidenced billing.
  • Formal change control end-to-end — raising Change Requests, producing impact assessments to a five-day service level, and taking changes through Board and Steering to signature.
  • Leading remote, cross-border delivery squads across at least two countries, with the cultural and time-zone judgement that requires.
  • Establishing governance from a standing start — building the cadence, artefacts and reporting rhythm on a new engagement rather than inheriting a running one.

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