Senior Technical Program Manager

We have been engaged by a well-known corporate to hire a senior Technical Program Manager to lead large tech initiatives across multiple teams.

Your role as Senior Technical Program Manager

As the senior Technical Program Manager you lead large tech initiatives that cut across several teams, in a product-led, agile environment. You own the how and when of the delivery chain and work closely with a team of ambitious Product Managers. The Product Managers remain accountable for product vision, strategy and the what and why; you create the structure that allows the chain to deliver as one.

You establish the integrated delivery plan, define milestones and ownership, create an overview, make dependencies and risks visible, and create an operating cadence that enables timely decisions. You bring senior stakeholders together around proof, options and trade-offs, and you provide one coherent view of status, timelines and delivery risk. If you are proactive, like a fast pace and know which battles to pick, you will make a real impact here.

Your responsibilities

As senior Technical Program Manager, you bring structure to delivery across teams; one standard, one integrated plan and one story everyone can trust, for every initiative. Besides the obvious, your responsibilities include:

• Creating and owning one end-to-end delivery plan, milestone architecture and critical path for cross-team initiatives.
• Setting a consistent way of delivering: reporting formats, cadence, RAG criteria, milestone formats, checkpoints and stage gates.
• Building and managing the cross-team dependency map and initiative risk register, with explicit escalation triggers, owners and decision forums.
• Ensuring domain roadmaps and team commitments line up with the integrated initiative plan, and flagging conflicts and their consequences early.
• Coordinating delivery across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Risk, Finance, vendors and other contributing functions.
• Producing clear, data-driven reporting for leadership and steering forums, focused on outcomes, milestones, risks, decisions and business impact.
• Creating one aligned customer and stakeholder narrative on delivery status, timelines and material trade-offs.
• Driving prioritization discussions by framing options, dependencies, capacity implications and, where relevant, cost-of-delay evidence. The final decision remains with the appropriate Product Director or steering forum.
• Recommending scope, date and resourcing changes when material business impact is identified and ensuring decisions are made at the right level and recorded.
• Improving the delivery system itself by tracking milestone reliability, escalation lead time and stakeholder clarity, and adapting the operating model based on evidence.

Your profile

You are a senior program leader who gets people moving without needing formal authority to do it. Ambiguity and high stakes don’t put you off. You bring just enough structure to make things work, and you hold senior stakeholders to what they’ve committed to. You’re disciplined about delivery, and you understand the technology and the business well enough to challenge assumptions and turn complex situations into clear decisions. You also bring:

• 7+ years of experience in technical program management, complex technology delivery, product-led transformation or a similar consulting/delivery role.
• A strong record of leading initiatives across multiple teams, business domains and vendors.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence senior leaders, resolve competing priorities and keep trust under pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to build integrated plans, manage critical paths, surface dependencies and risks early, and drive timely escalation and resolution.
• Enough technical understanding to hold your own with engineering and architecture leaders on system constraints, integration risks, technical debt and operational resilience.
• Experience with modern product and agile delivery environments. You know how to add coordination without turning empowered teams into a centralized project office.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create concise executive reporting and a consistent narrative for diverse stakeholders.
• A data-driven, outcome-focused mindset: you look at whether an initiative is becoming more predictable, not just whether the reports are done.
• Professional fluency in English is a must, Dutch is a plus but not required.
• Bonus points for experience in mission-critical operational domains, large vendor-driven technology landscapes and distributed delivery teams.

What makes this role interesting?

In this challenging role you shape how delivery works. You bring structure to large initiatives that run across products, engineering teams, business functions and vendors, and you keep improving the way things are delivered, based on evidence.

Business, Product and Engineering leaders base their decisions on your view of status and trade-offs. Customers and senior stakeholders hear one consistent story about delivery. You create that clarity without formal authority, in an environment that is ambiguous, high-stakes and mission-critical.

You will see the results of your work. Risks come up early enough for leaders to act, instead of surfacing as late surprises. And teams spend less time sorting out conflicting plans and more time delivering on shared goals.

What you can expect

• Gross annual salary between €80k - €110k, plus bonus.
• Significant room to grow in product/ program leadership and impact.
• Hybrid working model (2 days p/week on-site).
• Public transport subscription or mileage allowance.