Strategic Program Manager

Project overview

Assignment Description

The Strategic Program Manager is responsible for the integral management of complex, cross-organizational change programs within IT. These are programs with a strategic impact on multiple directorates, chains, and operational organizations, involving both consumers and service providers. Examples include large-scale migrations, platform transitions, sourcing issues, renewal of common facilities, and changes with dependencies on external suppliers.

Main Tasks and Results

Brief Addition:

Realizes strategic change programs in the areas of cyber resilience, security, continuity, and risk management, with integral management of technology, processes, governance, suppliers, and organizational change.

Background of Assignment

Further Clarification:

The function is positioned within the CTO Office within the IT Directorate. The programs executed are of strategic importance to the IT Directorate. The Strategic Program Manager is part of the technology cluster:

The Strategic Program Manager is the strategic advisor to the CTO and can represent and/or replace the CTO in meetings within IT and the Tax Administration where necessary. From there, they are a fully-fledged discussion partner for the IT Management Team.

• Develops the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the program together with clients and stakeholders and translates these into concrete objectives, results, milestones, and success criteria.
• Establishes a programmatic approach and manages governance, planning, dependencies, risks, finances, capacity, and decision-making.
• Leads the coherence between projects, teams, suppliers, and organizational units contributing to the realization of program objectives.
• Realizes complex transitions and migrations where processes, service delivery, technology, organizations, and contractual agreements must be changed in coherence.
• Ensures alignment between consumers, service organizations, architecture, management, and development organizations, and any external suppliers.
• Manages timely decision-making, escalation management, and problem-solving that threaten the progress or realization of program objectives.
• Ensures that results are realized in accordance with relevant frameworks for architecture, security, privacy, compliance, continuity, and financial control.
• Monitors the realization of program objectives within the agreed frameworks for time, budget, quality, and risk.
• Implements communication, stakeholder, and change management to create support and achieve sustainable adoption of the changes.
• Coaches project managers and program staff and promotes effective collaboration between the involved organizational units.
• Leads organization-wide programs in the areas of cyber resilience, information security, and digital continuity. Manages the realization of measures resulting from laws and regulations, national frameworks, and standards such as the Cyber Security Act (CBW), NIS2, and ISO 27001, and translates these into concrete organizational, process, and technological changes.
• Realizes complex change trajectories aimed at increasing the organization's resilience, including supply chain security, identity and access management, platform and infrastructure resilience, crisis preparedness, recovery capability, and security of vital processes and data.
• Ensures coherence between security, architecture, risk, compliance, procurement, management, and development organizations and ensures demonstrable compliance with relevant laws and regulations, standards, and internal frameworks.
• Manages the implementation of measures and improvement programs necessary to meet audit findings, supervisory requirements, risk analyses, and maturity objectives in the field of information security and cyber resilience.
• Is responsible for program management on selected multi-year strategic programs that bring about major complex changes within the context of the IT Directorate.
• Provides functional direction to project leaders and program staff from there;
• And, through active stakeholder management, has intensive coordination with the actors around the program and the CTO.

Requirements

Only offer Dutch CVs and candidates must speak Dutch perfectly.

Competencies

Perseverance

Initiative

Results-oriented

Teamwork

Organizational sensitivity

CV and Motivation Guidelines:

Allowed Engagement Form:

The initial engagement period is until December 2026, with an option for extension.

Additional Information

When you offer a professional to us as a supplier and they are placed, we will need information from you as a contracting party, including regarding the Chain Liability Act (Wet keten- en inlenersaansprakelijkheid).

The 'WKA' aims to prevent abuse in the remittance of payroll taxes at all links in the chain; from supplier to client. We cover these risks for our clients by means of a blocked account, the G-account. This is an account to which a portion of the invoice amount is deposited and from which you can pay payroll taxes and VAT to the Tax Authorities. The percentage to be deposited depends on whether you have SNA certification (NEN-4400-1 or NEN-4400-2) and whether your company is established in the Netherlands or abroad. You can apply for the G-account from the Tax Authorities.

If you cannot obtain a G-account (and you can provide proof from the Tax Authorities for this), you also have the option to provide an accountant's statement (assurance report regarding personnel lending) every quarter. In this, a certified accountant (AA or RA) will issue a statement on the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of the remittances. Please note that the costs for this statement are at your own expense.

• Education in and experience with reference models SAFe, IT4IT, and ITSM
• Demonstrable experience in large-scale data center environments; (5 years)
• Demonstrable experience in leading complex strategic programs in a VUCA environment (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambitious) in the public sector; (7 years)
• Proficient in stakeholder management and change management; (5 years)
• Format: No preference
• Language: Dutch
• Max. number of pages: 5
• Employee in service of supplier: Yes
• Freelancer: No

Project details

• Start: 2026-10-21T22:00:00
• Location: Apeldoorn Gelderland, NL
• Languages: Dutch