Consulting Program Manager, Vice President

Description

The Consulting function at the company is building up its internal program management capability, bringing in experienced leaders who can run complex programs to sustainable business results.

The team works across the organization on large, enterprise-wide programs tied to key strategic priorities. These may cover strategic transformation, regulatory change, product, operations, technology-enabled change, and other enterprise priorities.

This is a hybrid role: 3 days onsite and 2 days remote, based in Krakow or Gdansk.

The ideal candidate has led large, complex programs, brings an owner's mindset, and looks across the whole program to set up governance, spot risks and dependencies, and deliver outcomes. Listening and adapting to different stakeholders matter just as much. You should be comfortable influencing senior leaders, challenging assumptions, weighing options, and working in complex, ambiguous settings. Your background can come from financial services, technology, operations, regulatory, transformation, or consulting, but program management and delivery must be your core strength.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex programs from definition and mobilization through execution, implementation, and delivery.
• Own program outcomes end to end, keeping objectives, scope, milestones, resources, dependencies, risks, and deliverables aligned.
• Set up the program structure, operating rhythm, and delivery approach that suit each initiative.
• Deliver hands-on or oversee delivery through others, depending on what the program needs.
• Keep measurable business outcomes in focus, such as financial benefit, a better risk profile, or better client or employee experience where relevant.
• Use lessons from earlier programs to improve execution and address problems before they arise.
• Set up and run program governance: steering committees, working groups, decision forums, executive reporting, and escalation paths.
• Work with executive sponsors and senior stakeholders across business and functional areas to build alignment, drive decisions, and keep people accountable.
• Lead senior-level discussions, turning complex information into clear issues, options, decisions, priorities, and actions.
• Adjust communication and engagement to the audience and situation.
• Look across the whole program to find emerging risks, issues, interdependencies, and barriers early, and push for solutions before they hurt outcomes.
• Link information across workstreams, functions, and stakeholders to surface issues and dependencies that are not obvious, and judge when to escalate or change approach.
• Build trusted relationships with sponsors, senior business leaders, workstream owners, functional partners, and external consultants.
• Lead change across complex stakeholder groups and keep them aligned through execution.
• Listen closely to spot stakeholder concerns, competing priorities, and resistance that could affect delivery.
• Influence without direct authority, challenge constructively, and run debates that lead to decisions and accountability.
• Manage external consulting partners where needed and fold their work into the wider program.
• Help grow the company's internal consulting and program management capability.
• Move across strategic, regulatory, product, operational, transformation, and technology-enabled initiatives rather than staying in one area.
• Share practices that improve program execution with the wider team.

Requirements

• Significant hands-on experience leading and delivering large, complex programs, with accountability for overall execution and results.
• Proven record of end-to-end ownership, from setting up and mobilizing a program through implementation and delivery.
• Experience leading multi-workstream, cross-functional programs with senior stakeholders across several business or functional areas.
• Experience on programs with heavy senior involvement, several functions, significant investment, and meaningful business outcomes.
• Strong experience setting up and running program governance, including steering committees, executive reporting, decision forums, escalation, and program controls.
• Experience leading change across complex organizations and stakeholder groups.
• Ability to manage risks, issues, interdependencies, milestones, and competing priorities ahead of delivery problems.
• Strong executive presence and clear communication with senior sponsors, business leaders, operations teams, technology partners, and external consultants.
• Good listening skills, the ability to read stakeholders, think quickly, and adjust to the audience and situation.
• Proven ability to influence without authority, challenge others, handle hard conversations, and drive decisions.
• Sound judgment: connecting information across workstreams, weighing options, and making risk-based calls in ambiguous or shifting conditions.
• Enough understanding of technology and operational dependencies to spot likely impacts, ask good questions, and bring in the right experts.
• Experience managing and integrating external consulting partners within larger programs.
• Openness to challenge, debate, other views, and changing assignments.
• Financial services experience preferred but not required.
• Consulting or client-facing experience preferred.
• Experience leading regulatory, strategic transformation, operating-model, product, or technology-enabled programs preferred.
• Big Four or management consulting experience is a plus.
• Project or program management certification is a plus but not required.

Conditions

Permanent contract from day one.

Hybrid work: 3 days onsite and 2 days remote, based in Krakow or Gdansk.

Minimum salary of zł282 000 per year for the primary location. If the role is performed outside that location, the applicable minimum may differ.

Pay is set by factors such as the position, type of work, individual skills, job description, working hours, initiative, self-management, length of employment, availability, and quality and quantity of work, along with other objective, non-discriminatory criteria.

Employees may also be considered for discretionary annual performance-based awards.

Equal opportunity: candidates are assessed without regard to protected characteristics.

Benefits

• Two extra days off: a birthday day off and a day off for the 3rd and 5th work anniversaries.
• Gold medical package covering employees, partners, and children.
• Premium life insurance and a private pension plan.
• Soft skills training, technical workshops, language classes, and development programs.
• Opportunities to volunteer for company initiatives, employee networks, or organizations you choose.
• Range of well-being programs.
• Additional benefits depend on the seniority of the role.