Programme Manager – Major Events, Strategic Delivery

🕒 August 25

🌐 United Kingdom, Netherlands, +1 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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NEP Group, Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1986

📱 Media

💰 Private Equity Round on 2016-06

Media • Broadcasting • Entertainment

NEP Group, Inc. is a global media technology company that specializes in providing end-to-end production solutions for live events, television, and virtual productions. With a fleet of over 200 mobile production units and 83 studios worldwide, NEP Group offers a wide range of services including studio production, live event broadcasting, video rigging, augmented and virtual reality experiences, and comprehensive post-production services. The company delivers innovative technology and creative services, enabling clients to capture, manage, and showcase their content across various platforms.

📋 Description

• Provide programme management leadership, structure and discipline for complex, high-profile programmes • Support delivery of major live events with immovable deadlines • Work across functional teams and Initiative Owners • Create and maintain the integrated programme picture • Ensure priorities, milestones, dependencies, decisions, risks and commitments are visible, understood and actively managed • Establish an effective programme operating rhythm, governance structure and appropriate controls • Challenge incomplete thinking, assumptions and plans while protecting delegated ownership and accountability • Facilitate cross-functional discussions and help teams navigate competing priorities and complex delivery challenges • Maintain RAID, change control, readiness and decision-management processes • Partner closely with the Managing Director, Major Events & Strategic Delivery • Challenge priorities, focus and delegation when doing so improves programme outcomes • Provide hands-on programme leadership, drive action, frame decisions and ask difficult questions

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of programme management experience (60+ months) • Advanced experience managing multiple interconnected projects as part of a coordinated programme • Demonstrated success leading large, complex, multi-functional programmes with significant executive visibility • Strong expertise in integrated planning, critical path management, RAID, dependency management, governance, change control and readiness management • Experience with demanding or immovable delivery dates • Experience within live events, broadcast, sports, entertainment, technology or similarly complex environments highly desirable • Excellent executive communication skills • Ability to facilitate challenging conversations and hold senior stakeholders and peers accountable without direct authority • Strong judgement regarding functional resolution, Managing Director involvement and executive escalation • Ability to create structure in a fast-moving environment without unnecessary process or bureaucracy • Exceptional follow-through and attention to materially important details • Collaborative, pragmatic and calm approach under pressure • Ability to hold a position while remaining open to better evidence or solutions • Ability to travel, including internationally • PMP certification strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Required travel, including internationally • Opportunity to work on some of the world’s largest and most complex events • Use of the latest technology • Collaboration with industry-leading professionals