Programme Manager – Europe & Africa Consulting
International SOS
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Paris • France
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About the role
- Oversee the planning, coordination, and delivery of consulting projects, ensuring alignment with strategic client objectives and consulting practice best practices.
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of assigned projects and programmes, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, managing expectations and communications throughout the project lifecycle.
- Develop compelling, client-centric delivery frameworks, and project implementation plans, tailored to the health and security needs of each engagement.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across internal teams, subcontractors, providers, and client stakeholders, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities, and timelines.
- Engage in stakeholder mapping and communication planning, ensuring alignment across varying levels of influence and interest.
- Manage and prioritise resources across multiple concurrent projects, leveraging internal capabilities and external vendors to optimize delivery outcomes.
- Apply rigorous project governance processes to scope, schedule, and cost control, using recognized frameworks (e.g. PMI, PRINCE2, Agile) and adapting them to client and context-specific requirements.
- Ensure full compliance with International SOS integrity, health & safety, and quality standards, championing best practices in ethical, safe, and secure delivery environments.
- Support business development efforts, contributing to proposals, client presentations, and thought leadership in the health and security consultancy space.
Requirements
- 5+ years proven working experience in project management.
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills – written and verbal.
- Excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail and multitasking skills, managing competing deadlines.
- Excellent MS Office skills and familiarity with Project Management Software and Tools.
- Detail and results -oriented, committed with sense of responsibility.
- Adhered to focusing on risk mitigation, problem solving tight deliverable and reporting requirements.
- Business-level proficiency in English and French is required. German would be considered a strong asset.
Benefits
- As per business requirements.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementrisk mitigationproblem solvingstakeholder mappingcommunication planningresource managementproject governancescope controlschedule controlcost control
Soft Skills
client-facing communicationinternal communicationorganizational skillsattention to detailmultitaskingresponsibilityresults-orientedcollaborationleadershipadaptability