Program Manager - Senior

Freelancer Opportunity!!!

Job title: ICT Program manager

Job location; Brussels (Boreal or Evere office), once a month travel to Luxembourg.

Way of working: hybrid (2 days/week)

Job duration: 2026-04-01 to 2027-03-31

Job weekly hours: 40 hrs./week

Salary range: 800 to 900 euros a day

Availability: ASAP

Language required: Trilingual NL/FR and EN

Role description:

We are looking for a senior, independent program manager to support the team in a new project, with relevant experience in ICT transformation program, in large organizations.

Program Manager Proximus NXT Private Cloud consolidation

Proximus NXT Cloud Practice

Context

This Program is a multiyear transformation initiative to consolidate Private Cloud infrastructure and offering across multiple Proximus group entities. The scope includes typical phase out related activities, infrastructure building and migrations of internal and external customers towards alternative Private Cloud, Public Cloud, or hybrid alternatives. It needs to be performed while ensuring operational continuity, contractual compliance, and financial control. The program faces tight deadlines and major challenges in technical migration, customer communication, commercial repositioning, operational readiness, risk management, and inter-entity coordination.

The Program Manager will lead, orchestrate, and accelerate this complex transformation across Belgian and Luxembourg entities, internal practices, external partners, and customer stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

1   Program Governance & Leadership

Drive end-to-end planning, execution, and progress tracking of the Program, ensuring delivery against deadlines.

Lead governance ceremonies: Steerco, Core Team, cross stream syncs, and communication tracks. Ensure alignment between Cloud Practice, external providers, other entities, Product Management, Finance, Sales, and Architecture.

Maintain and evolve the Program WBS ensuring sufficient deliverable progress.

2.Migration Strategy & Execution

Oversee customer segmentation, solution mapping, technical scenario validation, and migration waves for external customers, internal customers, and specific environments.

Integrate and manage evolving strategies.

Ensure scenarios remain aligned with the contractual deadline and evolving commercial/technical constraints.

3.Operational Continuity & Risk Management

Ensure Private Cloud stability during transition, monitor major incidents, infrastructure capacity, change processes, and business continuity KPIs.

Maintain the Risk & Issues Log and coordinate action owners across streams (e.g., product gaps, service architects/process managers, contractual risks).

4.Stakeholder & Customer Engagement

Prepare and orchestrate communications toward:

Internal customers

External customers

Support account teams in commercial discussions, migration enablement, sales decks validation, and scenario explanation.

5.Financial, Contractual & Vendor Alignment

Coordinate with Finance on P&L impacts, RU model updates, and migration related financial flows.

Work with Legal & Procurement on contract addenda, vendor communications, and parallel transformation programs involving contractual impacts.

Support budget optimization by defining which technical refreshes will or will not be executed before Private Cloud sunset.

6.People & Change Management

Contribute to reskilling plans, talent retention, workforce implications, and new operating model definition.

Facilitate onboarding of new teams, program newcomers, and cross entity collaboration (e.g., Luxembourg partnership and resource sharing tracks).

Required Profile

Professional Experience

Proven experience as Program Manager or Senior Project Manager in large scale IT transformation programs.

Demonstrated background with Cloud migrations, data center transitions, or hybrid cloud architectures.

Experience working with cross functional teams and multi-entity organizations.

Technical Knowledge

Understanding of Private Cloud architectures, VMware environments, hybrid cloud, modern IaaS models.

Knowledge of migration methodologies, capacity & incident management, infrastructure lifecycle, and cloud governance models.

Leadership & Functional Skills

Strong communication skills to handle sensitive internal and external communications.

Ability to structure complex problems, drive scenario definition, and make data driven decisions.

Strong stakeholder management across technical, commercial, legal, and executive teams.

Ability to operate under high pressure with tight deadlines and significant ambiguity.

Tooling & Methodology

Familiarity with program governance, risk management, WBS creation, and project tracking tools.

Comfortable with SharePoint, Teams, and document workflows.

Key Competencies

Strategic thinking & system-level understanding

Execution discipline and program orchestration

Negotiation & alignment capabilities

Analytical rigor

Resilience and adaptability

Excellent written & verbal communication (EN/FR/NL preferred)

What We Offer

A high visibility role with direct impact on one of Proximus NXT strategic transformations

Collaboration with senior leadership, technology experts, and cross border Cloud teams.

Mission critical program that shapes the future of the hybrid cloud portfolio for years to come.

Apply now and start your journey with Team Possible! We want to get to know you.

After your application, we will verify your profile and get back to you within 3

working days.

If you’re successful, you can expect the following steps:

An initial conversation with our recruiter - Swati Kumari

Interview with the Hiring Manager and the team.

Final decision

About Proximus

We are Team Possible turning tech into opportunities.

We are driven by four core pillars: "I care," "I make a difference," "I radically simplify," and "I embrace the future". This means you'll join a team that genuinely cares for customers and colleagues, is empowered to make a real impact, strives to radically simplify complex challenges, and is always looking ahead to embrace the future of technology. We believe in an inclusive and safe environment where everyone can thrive, offering extensive career development resources, including access to over 5,000 training modules and a minimum of 5 days of training per year, to help you continuously learn, grow, and tackle bold challenges with us.