Job Description
We are currently recruiting for a Programme Manager Europe to join the Strategy & Portfolio Governance Europe (S&PG) Team on a full time, permanent basis, reporting into the Portfolio Lead Europe.
The Programme Manager Europe plays a critical role in shaping, coordinating, and driving cross functional and / or cross-market transformation programmes across Sysco Europe.
As the Programme Manager you will oversee end-to-end coordination and governance of multi workstream programmes across several European markets or functions, whilst providing structure, 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 lead programme level reporting, 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 it’s essential to be fluent in English & French.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
* Coordinate and oversee multi workstream / multi-market programmes across Europe, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives and 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 as required.
* 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.
* Maintain programme level reporting including dashboards, and ensure consistent messaging across projects and markets, consolidating inputs into a single programme view.
* Provide the Portfolio Lead with insight, risk summaries, and recommendations to support timely decision-making.
* Identify and manage programme risks, issues, and interdependencies—ensuring they are visible and owned.
* Support benefit tracking and realisation plans, working with markets and finance teams.
* Escalate barriers early and drive mitigation planning.
* Partner with in country teams to ensure tasks, milestones, and deliverables remain aligned.
* 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 programmes and / or projects in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment, with the ability to structure and integrate multiple workstreams and stakeholders. You’ll be confident working with senior leaders and presenting in high visibility forums with strong communication and influencing skills across culturally diverse stakeholders. You’ll have a high degree of organisation, structure, and professional discipline and be comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment; proactive, collaborative, and solutions focused. You’ll be 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 to identify improvement opportunities.
It’s essential to be fluent in English & French; additional European languages beneficial; willing to travel within Europe as required.
What you’ll 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 world’s leading foodservice business, opens a world of possibility