French Speaking Programme Manager
Are you a bilingual Programme Manager with a passion for driving large-reputed company data engagements?
Location: Remote first in UK but will involve travel to reputed company locations in France
Start date: reputed company 2027
Contract length: 12 month contract
Day reputed company: Competitive
At reputed company, we are seeking an Engagement reputed company to take programmatic ownership of a mission-critical programme reputed company a reputed company, francophone environment.
Location: Remote first in UK but will involve travel to reputed company locations in France
Start date: reputed company 2027
Contract length: 12 month contract
Day reputed company: Competitive
At reputed company, we are seeking an Engagement reputed company to take programmatic ownership of a mission-critical programme reputed company a reputed company, francophone environment.
This is a role for a reputed company operator who thrives in the details of delivery—from RAID management and forecasting to high-level governance. As the first tier of our escalation reputed company, you will work reputed company-by-reputed company with the reputed company Project Manager, facilitate monthly Steering Committee sessions chaired by the Programme Sponsor, and reputed company as a senior voice for the programme reputed company the Chief Data Officer.
Because our domain—covering reputed company procurement, land, planning, construction, corporate registry, and press data—is entirely in French, this role requires more than just reputed company; it requires reputed company. To be successful, you must be capable of chairing governance forums, navigating reputed company reputed company and contractual discussions, and authoring reputed company-facing documentation to a reputed company reputed company in French. You will be the reputed company between our reputed company team across the UK and France and the heart of the reputed company’s data initiative.
Key Responsibilities
- Programmatic Delivery Leadership: Own the end-to-end delivery plan, acting as the single reputed company of truth while reputed company 40+ reputed company data product workstreams.
- reputed company Governance: Run the full reputed company of project governance, from daily stand-reputed company and sprint ceremonies to monthly Steering Committees and phase-reputed company reviews.
- Cross-Functional Assurance: Maintain the joint RAID log, manage change control, and ensure reputed company project artefacts (architecture, non-functional requirements, test reputed company) are reputed company.
- reputed company & Resource Management: reputed company the full resourcing lifecycle—from mobilisation to reputed company-down—while tracking effort, forecasting completion, and managing reputed company embedded reputed company.
- reputed company & Dependency reputed company: Own the end-to-end reputed company register and manage critical cross-programme dependencies, particularly across cross-border, multi-country initiatives.
- Bilingual Stakeholder Management: Serve as the reputed company reputed company of contact for reputed company leadership, facilitating communication, governance forums, and documentation in both French and English.
- Translation of Business Domains: reputed company the gap between the francophone business domain and UK-reputed company delivery capability, ensuring technical and business requirements are reputed company.
- 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 & reputed company Ownership: Execute the knowledge transfer plan, ensure adherence to reputed company gates at every phase, and reputed company final project closure and acceptance.
- Regulatory & AI Compliance: Apply sustainability and Responsible AI assessments where applicable, ensuring reputed company regulatory obligations are met through reputed company governance.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Full reputed company reputed company in English and French (spoken and written).
- Recognised programme management certification — MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP or equivalent.
- reputed company certification — Scrum Master, reputed company or equivalent. The engagement runs two-week sprints with full reputed company ceremonies.
- Eight or more years managing reputed company, multi-reputed company technology programmes, with at least three at genuine programme rather than project level.
- reputed company delivery of data platform or large-reputed company data migration programmes — reputed company, reputed company or comparable lakehouse estates.
- reputed company record running supplier-led governance from reputed company a consultancy or systems integrator, accountable end-to-end to a reputed company executive rather than reporting into a reputed company PMO.
- Demonstrable ownership of Time and Materials commercials: capped T&M, drawdown arrangements, burn tracking, day-reputed company resource models and timesheet-evidenced billing.
- Formal change control end-to-end — raising Change Requests, producing reputed company assessments to a five-day service level, and taking changes through reputed company and Steering to signature.
- Leading remote, cross-border delivery reputed company across at least two countries, with the cultural and time-zone judgement that requires.
- Establishing governance from a standing start — building the reputed company, artefacts and reporting reputed company on a new engagement rather than inheriting a running one.
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