Lead Project & Program Manager

Location: Alphen aan den Rijn

Hybrid: 2 days/week in office

As a Lead Project & Program Manager, you will play a key role in driving a strategic, cross-functional transformation program involving multiple teams, stakeholders, and interdependent initiatives.

Beyond managing plans, timelines, risks, and deliverables, you will help create the conditions for the program to succeed. You will connect stakeholders, reduce friction across teams, bring structure to complex situations, facilitate decisions, and maintain alignment between strategic objectives and execution.

You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, working closely with senior stakeholders and translating complex program information into clear, actionable insights and executive-level reporting.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

Drive program alignment: Build and maintain alignment across business, product, technology, and other stakeholders around priorities, dependencies, decisions, and expected outcomes.
Reduce cross-functional friction: Identify areas of misalignment, unclear ownership, competing priorities, or execution friction and proactively facilitate resolution.
Navigate complexity: Bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or complex situations, framing problems, identifying options, and helping stakeholders reach pragmatic solutions.
Enable effective decision-making: Surface issues requiring leadership attention, clarify trade-offs, and ensure decisions and follow-up actions are captured and driven to closure.
Manage integrated program delivery: Maintain program plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical paths across multiple workstreams.
Manage risks and dependencies: Anticipate risks, identify cross-team dependencies and potential blockers, and coordinate mitigation and resolution.
Provide executive reporting: Develop concise, insightful executive-level reporting that clearly communicates progress, achievements, risks, dependencies, decisions required, and next steps.
Manage change: Assess the impact of changes to scope, priorities, timelines, and dependencies and coordinate appropriate responses.
Ensure delivery speed and quality: Maintain high standards for program documentation, governance, reporting, and overall fast execution.

What makes this role exciting?

You will be part of a new pilot program within the Transformation Department. This program will redefine the way we work and serve our customers. As a strategic initiative, it will serve as the blueprint for future programs and projects across the organization.

A key element of this project is bringing together the right people and collaborating closely with existing customers who will act as design partners. If you thrive in environments where there is still much to discover and where you can help bring structure, clarity, and direction, this could be the perfect role for you.

About You

Strategic Program Management: Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and workstreams.
Stakeholder Alignment: Strong ability to create alignment among stakeholders with different perspectives, priorities, and objectives.
Complex Problem Solving: Comfortable navigating ambiguity, breaking down complex situations, identifying root causes, and facilitating pragmatic solutions.
Influence & Facilitation: Able to challenge constructively, manage difficult conversations, and influence outcomes without relying on formal authority.
Executive Communication: Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise narratives, recommendations, and executive-level reporting.
Program Governance: Strong command of planning, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, actions, and governance mechanisms.
Delivery Management: Ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable plans and maintain momentum through execution.
Risk & Change Management: Proactively identifies risks and changes and drives appropriate mitigation.
Project & Program Management Tools: Proficiency with tools used for planning, collaboration, reporting, and program governance.
Experience with AI.
Fluent in English.

What do we offer?

Next to a compensation and benefits package in line with the market, we also offer the following:

a bonus scheme
collective health agreement option
pension scheme
a flexible, hybrid work setup;
laptop
an engaged, diverse, and quality driven team;
a culture that celebrates diversity and values talent.

Wolters Kluwer invests continuously in the growth and competencies of its employees by giving them many opportunities to develop.

About Wolters Kluwer and Enablon

Join us at Wolters Kluwer and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day through our deep domain expertise.

We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most.

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Interested in the role of Lead Project & Program Management?

Please apply hitting the Apply button. If you have questions, reach out to Claudia Funk (claudia.funk@wolterskluwer.com) or via phone at +31 6 15136211.

If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.

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Be the Difference

If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.

Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day.

We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You’ll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world.

You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong.

About Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide.

Our customers work in industries that impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI-powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity.

We deliver trusted, AI-powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert-validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes. Today, nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI-powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains.

We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud-based, AI-powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems. Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high-stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential.

With a nearly 190-year legacy, Wolters Kluwer continues to evolve its portfolio of digital solutions and services to meet the changing needs of professionals worldwide, enabling them to work faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver better outcomes.

For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.

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Lead Project & Program Manager