Programme Manager, Site Lead

Summary

Join Quantexa's expanding project delivery team in Malaga as a Programme Manager and Regional Site Lead. You will lead a portfolio of client projects, fostering a positive work environment and embodying Quantexa's values. Responsibilities include managing project timelines, costs, and scope, as well as collaborating with internal and external stakeholders. The ideal candidate possesses strong IT system programme management experience, client engagement skills, and leadership abilities. Quantexa offers a competitive salary, benefits package, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Have a strong background of complex IT system Programme management and a track record of getting systems live and programmes delivered
• Demonstrate strong client engagement management, for example, gained via a professional services, or a client facing, environment in a technology company, and the ability to deal with senior and challenging stakeholders
• Have the ability to inspire and lead others to a common mission and objective
• Be able to collaborate across multiple teams to drive solutions to complex problems and challenges
• Have ambitious standards matched with a sense of humility and overall, a desire to get the right thing done in the right way
• Be able to grasp complex concepts and to communicate with clarity and gravitas across a range of subjects
• Have a high degree of emotional intelligence, leadership, and the ability to effectively listen to employee feedback and address needs

Responsibilities

• As Programme Manager, run a programme or portfolio of client projects for clients within EMEA
• As Regional Site Lead (Malaga), foster a positive work environment through embodying of Quantexa values as the regional ambassador
• Lead a portfolio of projects and/or programmes for global clients
• Drive successful outcomes - delivering programmes in the most optimal way to realise maximum value to our clients
• Take full ownership of your portfolio, putting your arms around all aspects, actively mitigating risks and issues, driving high standards of quality and best practice, and being in full control of the costs, timelines and scope
• Manage the commercial aspects of your projects and programmes, ensuring appropriate contractual cover is in place, monitoring expenditures, and ensuring cost-effective utilisation of people and resources
• Work under the guidance of one or more of the four EMEA Delivery Managers (depending upon assignment), but work with a high degree of autonomy with minimal supervision, seeking and knowing when to engage the Delivery Managers for support leading a programme or portfolio of projects to one or more global clients
• Lead and manage the delivery teams engaged across your projects portfolio and ensuring their wellbeing and continued effectiveness
• Work with relevant partners and partner staff engaged on your projects to develop their skillsets and enhance the partner capabilities
• Be working alongside our GTM teams to manage the overall client relationship including identifying new opportunities and forecasting ongoing project demand
• Drive continuous improvement across your delivery projects and feeding back process improvements to wider delivery teams and where appropriate identifying improvements to feedback to our Product and R&D teams
• Be tasked with fostering a positive work environment through embodying of Quantexa values as the regional ambassador
• Support a number of internal processes such as hiring, employee well-being, staff mentoring, overseeing hybrid working policies and headcount management and be the point of contact for facility management
• Lead external engagement locally with partners and the community, networking with local universities and businesses for talent acquisition and corporate profile

Benefits

• Competitive salary & company bonus
• 23 days annual leave, plus national holidays + your birthday off!
• Pension scheme with a company contribution of 5% (when you contribute 2%)
• Private Healthcare with DKV
• Life Insurance
• Work from Home Allowance
• Meal Vouchers
• Regularly bench-marked salary rates
• Well-being days
• Volunteer Day off
• Work from Home Equipment
• Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep
• Continuous Training and Development, including access to Udemy Business
• Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy
• Employee Referral Program
• Team Social Budget & Company-wide Socials