Program Manager Business - Daily Banking (Expert) - BNP Paribas Fortis
Description
BNP Paribas Fortis is seeking an Expert Program Manager Business for Daily Banking within its Transformation Office. The mission starts with ideation and business analysis, turning an idea or request into a solution or value proposition. The program manager slices initiatives into value-delivering projects and develops and manages program plans.
The role owns program governance and stakeholder management. It includes leading program boards or steering committees, monitoring progress and reporting. Risk assessment, issue management, capacity planning and resource management support delivery follow-up. Financial management covers both the budget and the business case, alongside contributions to cluster strategy and the change roadmap.
The assignment requires at least 10 years of relevant experience and a master degree or equivalent experience. Candidates need experience across business and IT, complex project or program management experience, and banking business knowledge. Strong written and spoken English is required; good spoken Dutch and French are ideal. The Brussels assignment runs from 16 November 2026 to 14 November 2027, with 50% onsite work and 50% homeworking.
Top Reasons to Apply
Shape Daily Banking
Influence cluster strategy
Lead complex programs
Bridge business and IT
Hybrid working arrangement
Detailed Responsibilities and Skills
Additional Responsibilities
- Manage finances, including budget and business case.
- Contribute to cluster strategy and the change roadmap.
General skills — mandatory
- At least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Master degree or equivalent by experience.
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills.
- Experience working with both business and IT; repeated in both technical and business mandatory sections.
- Proven experience managing complex projects or a program of projects.
- Knowledge of banking business.
- Ability to see the overall picture (helicopter view) and think strategically.
- Decision-making ability.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Diplomacy.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Commercial awareness.
- Customer orientation.
- Proactive and self-propelling approach.
- Team spirit.
- Management skills.
- Ability to motivate people.
- Structured approach.
- Goal orientation.
- Quick learning ability.
- Eagerness to build expertise, even in a new domain.
Technical skills — mandatory
- Good understanding of workflow processes.
- Very good knowledge of project management methodologies and tools, with Agile, Prince2, PMBOK, Clarity, MS project and harmony given as examples.
- Familiarity with various IT systems.
General and technical skills — preferred
- Experience working in an agile environment is preferable.
- Familiarity with various Daily Banking management systems is preferable.
- Knowledge of Daily Banking business is preferable.
- Bank Accounts knowledge is ideal within the preferred Daily Banking knowledge.
- Good spoken Dutch communication skills are ideal.
- Good spoken French communication skills are ideal.
Tools — illustrative examples
- Clarity, MS project and harmony are examples in the mandatory very good knowledge requirement for project management methodologies and tools; the document does not explicitly require separate mastery of each named tool.