Program Director ECLA

Project overview

Context:

Reinforcement for the economic steering unit of the ECLA program (Business Cases). Within the framework of this program, the program director is looking for an assistant to take charge of the missions below and join the program's Lead team.

MISSIONS:

Construction and monitoring of economic steering and risks:

Preparation of support materials and governance coordination:

Operational animation and support to program management:

Profile sought

Required skills

Required profile

Work environment

• Construct and consolidate the multi-year IT and ECLA direction budget trajectory, in conjunction with program leads and financial stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development and updating of Business Cases: cost assumptions, expected benefits, scenarios, and decision-making elements.
• Monitor budgets, commitments, expenses, and landing forecasts; analyze variances and their causes, identify alerts, and propose corrective actions or necessary arbitration.
• Ensure the monitoring of orders and invoicing for the ECLA direction, in coordination with the relevant stakeholders, and ensure their consistency with budget envelopes.
• Consolidate the program's economic indicators and ensure the reliability of data used in dashboards and reports.
• Coordinate risk management with ECLA teams: identification, impact qualification, monitoring of control plans, and escalation of issues requiring a decision.
• Prepare support materials for program meetings: progress, budget status, risks, points of attention, and decisions required.
• Produce summaries for external program bodies, particularly the DG and investment governance, with a clear presentation of issues and arbitration needed.
• Prepare necessary communications for the program and ensure the consistency of information disseminated to stakeholders.
• Organize portfolio operational reviews with program leads; consolidate contributions and highlight dependencies, difficulties, and priorities.
• Formalize decisions, maintain action plans, and monitor their implementation with the responsible parties.
• Establish year-end reviews, both budgetary and functional, by consolidating achievements, variances, and lessons learned for the next period.
• Lead the program's weekly committee and its functional or technical zooms: prepare the agenda, coordinate contributions, facilitate discussions, and monitor actions.
• Take charge of studies requested by the program, specifying assumptions, scenarios, impacts, and recommendations submitted for decision.
• Assist the program director in their operational missions: prepare arbitration, coordinate cross-functional topics, monitor priorities, and escalate alerts.
• Contribute to the Lead team's work and facilitate alignment between economic, functional, and technical issues.
• Be proactive in proposing strategic or practical evolutions to improve program performance, steering reliability, and governance efficiency.
• Economic steering of IT programs: construction of multi-year budgets, monitoring of commitments and expenses, variance analysis, and updating of landing forecasts.
• Development and monitoring of Business Cases: structuring assumptions, analysis of costs and expected benefits, scenario comparison, and preparation of investment arbitration.
• Program governance and portfolio management: preparation of meetings, progress consolidation, monitoring of dependencies, decisions, and action plans.
• Risk management: identification and assessment of economic and operational impacts, coordination of control measures, and monitoring of alerts.
• Understanding of order and invoicing processes, and ability to work with financial stakeholders and program teams.
• Proficiency in spreadsheets, presentation tools, and reporting tools necessary for data consolidation, analysis, and dashboard production.
• Ability to communicate with IT, functional, and financial stakeholders, and to translate operational information into summaries suitable for management meetings.
• Facilitation of committees and cross-functional work: preparation of discussions, facilitation of decision-making, and monitoring of commitments.
• Writing skills, synthesis skills, rigor in data processing, and ability to formulate reasoned recommendations.
• Experienced profile in IT program steering, economic-focused Program Management Office (PMO), or IT project and program cost control.
• Experience in constructing and monitoring multi-year budget trajectories, preparing Business Cases, and producing reports for management bodies.
• Practice in the governance of cross-functional programs involving multiple teams and stakeholders, with the ability to coordinate contributions without direct hierarchical authority.
• Ability to act as an assistant to the program director and autonomously manage assigned economic steering and operational coordination tasks.
• Ease in communicating with management, program leads, and financial, functional, and technical stakeholders.
• Organizational skills, reliability, discernment in prioritizing, and ability to quickly report variances or risks requiring arbitration.
• Collaborative attitude, discretion in handling budgetary information, and aptitude for proposing pragmatic improvements within the Lead team.

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 18 mois
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Paris, Île-de-France, FR
• Languages: French