Senior Transformation Manager / Program Manager, Zurich

Project overview

For our client, a leading company in the insurance environment in Zurich, we are looking for an experienced personality as Senior Transformation Manager / Program Manager, who will be responsible for strategic transformation initiatives end-to-end and successfully manage complex change projects.

Responsibilities

• Leading multiple strategic transformation initiatives and programs
• Creation and maintenance of an integrated roadmap, an overarching scope, and a comprehensive delivery plan
• Coordination of business owners, specialist departments, and relevant stakeholders
• Management and monitoring of initiative-spanning dependencies
• Responsibility for risk, issue, and escalation management
• Preparation of decision-making bases for management and steering committees
• Ensuring transparency regarding progress, critical path, and required decisions
• Coordination of requirements from the areas of Risk, Compliance, Information Security, Data Protection, and Enterprise Architecture
• Planning and support of testing, migration, implementation, and decommissioning activities
• Ensuring clear responsibilities and actively closing ownership gaps
• Close collaboration with business and technology organizations for the successful implementation of strategic projects
• Support for the sustainable anchoring and realization of business benefits from the transformation initiatives

Requirements

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Job profile (3VK4X0)

IT - Project Management

Zurich

Contracting

Part Time, 80-100%

Immediately / January 2027 - 31.12.2027 ++

Transformation, Program Management, Stakeholder Management, Governance, Reporting

• At least 8 years of experience in leading complex transformation programs, projects, or strategic initiatives
• Demonstrable experience in managing multiple parallel and interdependent workstreams
• Sound knowledge in:
• Project and program management
• Integrated planning
• Stakeholder management
• Risk and escalation management
• Governance and management reporting
• Decision and dependency management
• Experience at the interface between business and IT
• Ability to successfully implement results even without direct management responsibility
• Experience in collaborating with senior management and steering committees
• Strong communication and moderation skills
• Fluent German and English language skills

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Zürich, CH
• Languages: German