Program Manager

Freelancer Opportunity

Job title: Sr. Program Manager

Job location: Brussels, Belgium

Job duration: 2026-05-18 to 2026-12-31

Job weekly hours: 40 hrs./week

Job salary range: 700 to 750 euros a day

Language requirement: Trilingual

Role description:

The program manager leads and manages company- wide large program teams in order to ensure timely delivery of major business initiatives, with respect of approved scope and budget

Required Responsibilities:

• Deliver the program (and underlying projects) on time, on scope and on budget
• Coordinate and facilitate change within the different involved departments and escalate if required according to the program/project governance rules
• Set-up a program and project teams covering all impacted teams in the assigned domain of responsibility both for business and technical teams (end-to-end approach & governance)
• Define a clear and realistic program plan based on the internal customer roadmap
• Identify the deliverables and associated resources for the involved delivery teams as well as the timing
• Prepare the program budget and ensure its realization by closely following up and, if required, taking timely corrective actions
• Follow up program/project progress on a frequent basis (through the organization of the regular follow-up meetings) to enable close monitoring, thorough communication and proactive problem detection
• Proactively detect potential issues by monitoring the executing of the program/project tasks and trigger the appropriate actions
• Liaise on a continuous basis with management of the impacted department(s) to ensure that everyone is fully aware of the deliverables (content timing) his or her team is in charge of
• Report on program/project progress and issues
• Provide day to day management & coaching of the program team
• Ensure that all methodologies and procedures are known and applied by all team members
• Ensure full alignment of the planning with company-wide related initiatives

Degree & Experience:

• Many years of experience in Program and Project Management within complex environments
• Proven experience in IT Domain
• Proven experience in steering, setting pace and injecting life into the program, projects and teams, coordinating all aspects

Technical skills:

• Sound project methodology knowledge ((PMI, Prince 2, Agile)
• MS Office Tools (Word, Excel MS-Access, MS-project, PowerPoint)

Attitudes/Behavior:

• Proven leadership skills
• Motivator who can bring over the energy to the team
• Business acumen
• Negotiation & convincing skills
• Curious and eager to learn
• Dealing with ambiguity
• Result oriented
• Autonomous
• Influencer
• Good coaching skills, experience with steering a group of 5-10 project managers
• We need someone very motivated and committed

Languages:

• Dutch
• French
• English

Apply now and start your journey with Team Possible! We want to get to know you.

After your application, we will verify your profile and get back to you within 3

working days.

If you’re successful, you can expect the following steps:

An initial conversation with our recruiter - Swati Kumari

Interview with the Hiring Manager and the team.

Final decision

About Proximus

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We are driven by four core pillars: "I care," "I make a difference," "I radically simplify," and "I embrace the future". This means you'll join a team that genuinely cares for customers and colleagues, is empowered to make a real impact, strives to radically simplify complex challenges, and is always looking ahead to embrace the future of technology. We believe in an inclusive and safe environment where everyone can thrive, offering extensive career development resources, including access to over 5,000 training modules and a minimum of 5 days of training per year, to help you continuously learn, grow, and tackle bold challenges with us.