Lead Project & Program Manager

Location: Alphen aan den Rijn

Hybrid: 2 days/week in office

As a Lead Project & Program Manager, you will play a key role in driving a strategic, cross-functional transformation program involving multiple teams, stakeholders, and interdependent initiatives.

Beyond managing plans, timelines, risks, and deliverables, you will help create the conditions for the program to succeed. You will connect stakeholders, reduce friction across teams, bring structure to complex situations, facilitate decisions, and maintain alignment between strategic objectives and execution.

You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, working closely with senior stakeholders and translating complex program information into clear, actionable insights and executive-level reporting.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

• Drive program alignment: Build and maintain alignment across business, product, technology, and other stakeholders around priorities, dependencies, decisions, and expected outcomes.
• Reduce cross-functional friction: Identify areas of misalignment, unclear ownership, competing priorities, or execution friction and proactively facilitate resolution.
• Navigate complexity: Bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or complex situations, framing problems, identifying options, and helping stakeholders reach pragmatic solutions.
• Enable effective decision-making: Surface issues requiring leadership attention, clarify trade-offs, and ensure decisions and follow-up actions are captured and driven to closure.
• Manage integrated program delivery: Maintain program plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical paths across multiple workstreams.
• Manage risks and dependencies: Anticipate risks, identify cross-team dependencies and potential blockers, and coordinate mitigation and resolution.
• Provide executive reporting: Develop concise, insightful executive-level reporting that clearly communicates progress, achievements, risks, dependencies, decisions required, and next steps.
• Manage change: Assess the impact of changes to scope, priorities, timelines, and dependencies and coordinate appropriate responses.
• Ensure delivery speed and quality: Maintain high standards for program documentation, governance, reporting, and overall fast execution.

What makes this role exciting?

You will be part of a new pilot program within the Transformation Department. This program will redefine the way we work and serve our customers. As a strategic initiative, it will serve as the blueprint for future programs and projects across the organization.

A key element of this project is bringing together the right people and collaborating closely with existing customers who will act as design partners. If you thrive in environments where there is still much to discover and where you can help bring structure, clarity, and direction, this could be the perfect role for you.

About You

• Strategic Program Management: Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and workstreams.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Strong ability to create alignment among stakeholders with different perspectives, priorities, and objectives.
• Complex Problem Solving: Comfortable navigating ambiguity, breaking down complex situations, identifying root causes, and facilitating pragmatic solutions.
• Influence & Facilitation: Able to challenge constructively, manage difficult conversations, and influence outcomes without relying on formal authority.
• Executive Communication: Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise narratives, recommendations, and executive-level reporting.
• Program Governance: Strong command of planning, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, actions, and governance mechanisms.
• Delivery Management: Ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable plans and maintain momentum through execution.
• Risk & Change Management: Proactively identifies risks and changes and drives appropriate mitigation.
• Project & Program Management Tools: Proficiency with tools used for planning, collaboration, reporting, and program governance.
• Experience with AI.
• Fluent in English.

What do we offer?

Next to a compensation and benefits package in line with the market, we also offer the following:

• a bonus scheme
• collective health agreement option
• pension scheme
• a flexible, hybrid work setup;
• laptop
• an engaged, diverse, and quality driven team;
• a culture that celebrates diversity and values talent.

Wolters Kluwer invests continuously in the growth and competencies of its employees by giving them many opportunities to develop.

About Wolters Kluwer and Enablon

Join us at Wolters Kluwer and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day through our deep domain expertise.

We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most.

Enablon is the name of our software package for EHS, Risk and Compliance Management. Our partners are oftentimes multinational companies all over the world that have to deal with health and safety risks. You can find more information on Enablon | Wolters Kluwer

Interested in the role of Lead Project & Program Management?

Please apply hitting the Apply button. If you have questions, reach out to Claudia Funk ([email protected]) or via phone at +31 6 15136211.

If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.

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Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.