French Speaking Programme Manager
RemoteLondon, England, United Kingdom or United Kingdom
Job Summary
Own the end-to-end delivery plan for a mission-critical programme sequencing 40+ concurrent data product workstreams across France and the UK. Run the full cadence of project governance from daily stand-ups to monthly Steering Committees chaired by the Programme Sponsor, acting as the senior voice alongside the Chief Data Officer. Maintain the joint RAID log, manage change control, and ensure all project artefacts remain current while overseeing the full resourcing lifecycle from mobilisation to ramp-down. Serve as the primary bilingual point of contact for client leadership, facilitating communication and authoring documentation in French to bridge the gap between the francophone business domain and UK-based delivery capability. Foster a cohesive remote team culture across two time zones and execute the knowledge transfer plan ensuring adherence to quality gates at every phase.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- 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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