Project Manager (Change)

Project overview

Stedin is looking for a Project Manager (Change).

(ZZP NOT POSSIBLE) Indicative hourly rate is €85,- all-in, excluding VAT.

Brief description of the assignment

An integral, manageable waiting list domain that is set up to be scalable, predictable, and future-proof. We want to be able to make an offer to all customers on the waiting list. You will ensure that Stedin has:

Changing from the chains/ How do we work within Stedin?

From the Change Office department, we are looking for enthusiastic Change Professionals who can fulfill the role of Project Manager in these teams. With an Agile working method, we will improve processes and the underlying digital production chains step by step.

Do you get energized by change using an agile method? Are you able to demonstrate with data whether our assumptions are correct? Are you able to create flow and deliver products with business value? Then you are the Project Manager we are looking for!

What is a Project Manager?

As a (seniority) Project Manager, you play a key role in guiding important change initiatives within our organization. You represent the client (Business Owner) and lead Epics through the Portfolio Kanban phases, both at the Chain/Domain (Program) level and overarching. You are responsible for the successful management and execution of Epics within our digital transformation program.

Role description

You ensure that the Epic is well-developed qualitatively, aligns with the strategy and OKRs, and has a clear MVP and further elaboration. You are responsible for preparing and aligning the Lean Business Case (LBC), the solution description, and the architectural framework for the Epic. You guide the Epic through the Portfolio Kanban, ensure alignment with involved stakeholders, and ensure that the Epic meets the requirements for Kanban phase transitions. You act as a point of contact during the planning and realization of the Epic, coordinating the necessary capacity of people and resources.

Facilitate the process of elaborating the Epic into features by the project managers (PM(s)) and ensure effective communication around the Epic. You monitor the realization of the intended value and align the progress of the Epic with stakeholders, while the Business Owner remains ultimately responsible for the intended benefits. You support the implementation of the products to ensure that the change is fully adopted by the business and the intended value is realized. Evaluate the collaboration with stakeholders in realizing strategic value.

• One truth for processes, data, applications, responsibilities, and improvement initiatives
• Clear governance between customer, asset management, and IT
• Structural control over both operational execution (run) and the change agenda (change)
• Future-proof IT support for waiting list management
• Predictable, efficient, and manageable execution of release and onboarding processes
• An integral offer to customers on the waiting list
• Anchoring of non-firm solutions within regular waiting list processes
• A roadmap towards a sector-wide, real-time waiting list solution with other network operators

Responsibilities

Experience and education:

Competencies:

• Overall coordination of the specific epic across different teams, between program, business, data, and IT
• Elaboration of the epic (definition MVP, epic to feature breakdown, ensuring epic readiness, potential WBS and user stories)
• Solving (sometimes in collaboration) any technical and organizational obstacles
• Setting up an implementation approach
• Communicating about the epic with key stakeholders
• Steering towards realization and implementation together with the involved release trains, teams, and business, focused on achieving the intended benefits
• Preparing a feature plan and adjusting progress
• Identifying and mitigating risks
• Collaborating with the Change Consultant for the human aspect of the change arising from the epic.
• Ensuring documentation and maintaining a good trail of choices and lessons learned
• Experience as a Project Manager role: demonstrable experience as a Project Manager (> 5 years)
• Leading SAFe and SAFe Lean Portfolio Management certified
• Lean-Agile skills and mindset: knowledge of various Lean and Agile principles and the ability to effectively apply and promote them in practice (with results).
• Experience with a comparable trajectory for implementing a data platform
• Experience with Agile SAFe is a plus
• Experience in or with Stedin-IT is a plus
• Minimum HBO or equivalent thinking level (at strategic and tactical thinking and working level)
• Affinity with planning and organizing, and is result-oriented and proactive
• Affinity with the human side of change
• Good communication skills. Able to bridge the gap between business and IT in a complex organization
• Collaboration with various multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
• Analytical skills, has an overview and acts where necessary with these insights
• Initiative-taker and pragmatic
• Risk management: Identifying and managing risks during the execution of epics
• Customer focus
• Ability to easily switch with various stakeholders (Business Owner(s), business control, PMs, business analyst)
• Result-oriented and able to substantiate things with data.
• Initiative
• Helicopter view
• Entrepreneurship

Project details

• Start: 2026-10-31T23:00:00
• Location: Rotterdam Zuid-Holland, NL
• Languages: Dutch