Job Description
We are currently recruiting for aProgramme Manager Europeto join the Strategy & Portfolio Governance Europe(S&PG)Teamon a full time,permanentbasis, reporting into thePortfolio Lead Europe.
TheProgramme Manager Europeplays a critical role in shaping, coordinating, and drivingcross functionaland / or cross-markettransformation programmes across Sysco Europe.
As the Programme Manager you will overseeend-to-endcoordination and governanceofmultiworkstreamprogrammes across several European marketsor functions, whilst providingstructure, planning discipline, and insight to ensure initiatives progress in a controlled and aligned manner. You will partner with market teams, functional leads, and global stakeholders to ensure prioritisation, interdependency tracking, and alignment to overall strategy and leadprogramme levelreporting, risk management, status oversight, and benefit tracking.
This role is a home based role, based in either UK or France, and will require European travel as and when required and itsessential to be fluent in English & French.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
* Coordinate and overseemultiworkstream/ multi-marketprogrammes across Europe, ensuring alignment to strategicobjectivesand priorities.
* Maintain programme governance frameworks, operating rhythms, and meeting cadences.
* Prepare and manage programme steering groups, leadership reviews, and governance forums.
* Track dependencies across projects and markets, escalating conflicts, resource gaps, and risks asrequired.
* Develop integrated programme roadmaps incorporating functional, market, and transformation activities.
* Facilitate planning workshops to shape programme scope, milestones, and critical paths.
* Ensure markets and stakeholders are aligned on timelines, accountabilities, and sequencing.
* Maintainprogrammelevelreporting including dashboards,and ensure consistent messaging across projects and markets,consolidatinginputs into a single programme view.
* Provide the Portfolio Lead with insight, risk summaries, and recommendations to supporttimelydecision-making.
* Identifyand manage programme risks, issues, and interdependenciesensuring they are visible and owned.
* Support benefit tracking and realisation plans, working with markets and finance teams.
* Escalate barriers early and drive mitigation planning.
* Partnerwithincountryteams to ensure tasks, milestones, and deliverablesremainaligned.
* Support cross-functional collaboration, creating transparency and alignment across teams.
* Collaborate with other Project Management teams to share best practices and ensure consistency in delivery.
* Champion process improvement and strategic alignment, driving efficiencies and continuous improvement across the project lifecycle.
About you:
To be successful in this role you will have proven experience leading or coordinating largescale transformation programmesand / or projectsin a complex, multi-stakeholder environment, with the ability to structure and integrate multiple workstreamsand stakeholders.Youllbe confident working with senior leaders and presenting inhigh visibilityforums withstrong communicationand influencing skills across culturally diverse stakeholders.Youllhave a high degree of organisation, structure, and professional discipline and be comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment; proactive, collaborative, andsolutions focused.Youllbe skilled in project management tools and advanced Microsoft Office applications; capable of leveraging technology to enhance project delivery with a willingness to learn and develop new skills, ways of working and be open to change, and willing to challenge the status quo toidentifyimprovement opportunities.
Itsessential to be fluent in English & French;additionalEuropean languages beneficial; willing to travel within Europe asrequired.
What youll receive:
* A competitive salary
* Company car allowance of £7,000 per annum or Company Car
* Single Private Medical Healthcare cover
* Eligible for company bonus scheme
* Generous holiday allowance, with option to purchase 5 additional holiday days
* Pension scheme
* Hybrid working contract
* Huge discounts on all sorts of lovely food and award-winning products through our staff shop
* Discounts on Cinema tickets, shopping and earn cashback on purchases through Sodexo.
* Recognition awards and Incentives
* Career progression opportunities - being part of the Sysco group, the worlds leading foodservice business, opens a world of possibility
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