Agile Programme Manager

Job Description – D&T Global Agile Programme Manager

This role is part of the Global Digital & Technology (D&T) department of HEINEKEN International. D&T is proud to bring cutting-edge innovation, strong technology, and advanced analytics to HEINEKEN. With speed and agility, we ensure HEINEKEN has the technological competitive advantages it needs to deliver on its ambition.

If you believe, delivering successful complex global programs starts with “Having the Right people in the right place”, if you are convinced you bring the required experience; then we might have a perfect match. We inspire you to apply as you might be one of these right people helping HEINEKEN reaching our business ambition by delivering cutting edge programs together with highly motivated colleagues and suppliers.

We’re hiring a D&T Global Agile Programme Manager. As a D&T Global Agile Programme Manager, you are part of Agile Acceleration (ACE) Leadership team, reporting directly to Manager Agile Project and Programme Management. You are working with a team of highly driven colleagues to drive strategical ACE decisions. Within ACE you are part of APPM team – agile program and project management team. Our APPM team supports HEINEKEN by understanding and realizing the ambition to digitalize our businesses, realizing business value, become more Agile, reduce IT cost and simplify our IT-landscape. ACE is responsible for Transform, Run and Change part of the transformation and APPM domain is integral part of it.

Your role at HEINEKEN

The role has strategic importance for the ACE.

• From strategic perspective, you will shape the future global PPM methodology in line with Evergreen delivery governance and new Agile WoW, and drive implementation, change management and adoption across Global projects;
• Build capability across APPM team, drive improvements and building on best practices;

In program management domain, you act as senior program manager for one of the top 25 Evergreen programs, enabled by D&T and you have direct line manager responsibility of your team.

The program(s) assigned to you will be related to our innovations and growth reflecting the HEINEKEN strategy. These are considered crucial to the success of HEINEKEN. The specific programs assigned to you will be balanced between your experience and the organizational needs. You can be guaranteed that there will be continuous great opportunities for personal learning within our portfolios reflecting 100s of millions Euros crossing all functions including state of the art technologies.

In this role, you will:

• Align technology solutions with strategy and goals of our business;
• Manage and deliver a portfolio of programmes and projects in accordance with D&T and Agile processes and governance combined with knowledge based on multi-year experience;
• Drive business value optimization and prioritization in alignment with our Product Teams and Functional Domains;
• Deliver experienced Agile Project Managers to coordinate the execution of complex changes (From Business Case creation till realization) in an agile manner. Including managing programs cross product teams/ portfolio’s / departments/ OpCos/ regions. APPM is managing dependencies cross programs;
• Set up program structures, drive Agile way of working;
• Coach and mentor product teams to facilitate the delivery of complex changes;
• Harvest and share good program management practices to enable efficient and effective change delivery;
• Be the guild to nurture knowledge sharing on complex change delivery and promote good program management practices across HEINEKEN;
• Bring experience and share it with colleagues to ensure we can step up as team and as individual for the above domains.

Your team

This role is part of the Global Digital & Technology (D&T) department, Agile Acceleration (ACE) department and the Agile Project & Programme Management (Agile PPM) area of HEINEKEN International. We cooperate to grow the agile community and give it a central place within the global organisation so we may support the organisation and its innovations. We emphasise knowledge sharing and stimulate collaboration with juniors so you might teach them your knowledge and experience.

Are we looking for you?

• You’re a high competent and experienced programme manager. Have gained experience in a (consulting) business environment for over 10 years and are eager to share this knowledge to grow other people and to deliver successful programs
• You have a Master’s degree;
• Ideally you are Agile Programme Management certified (e.g. CSM, PMI-APC, APMG);
• Ideally you bring experience from the following functional domains: Finance, Supply Chain, Commerce;
• You are professionally qualified in a structured, industry-accepted standard (Agile) project management methodology (advanced) Practitioner and/or Managing Successful Programmes (advanced) Practitioner);
• Ideally, you’ve worked on implementation of global PPM standard in large multinational company;
• You understand technology. Have affinity with the products to understand development and delivery issues within the teams and judge their relative importance;
• You have the courage to be innovative: embracing IT innovation and technological possibilities to capitalize on opportunities to automate activities (identifies and uses proper tools and processes);
• You have experience as people manager of a team of professionals: you can reflect, are open for discussion and trusted to help the colleagues to grow and develop;
• You are able to create an environment in which the self-confidence and proactivity of the teams can blossom;
• You are a great communicator and able to motivate/ empower anybody at all levels;
• You have proven experience in all phases in leading transformational projects in developing centralised capabilities and migrate and deployment to Operating Companies in multiple geographic locations, time zones and cultures;
• Ideally you have experience in business transformation and change management considering process re-design and target operating model optimization;
• You rock in managing external vendors, resources and contracts, you excel in creating win-wins;
• People know you for your ability to translate complex technical concepts to business language and vice versa;
• You’re fluent in English.

We are HEINEKEN

Our proud history as a family-owned, independent brewer stretches back 150 years. We brew the highest quality beers, build globally loved brands and strive to do both of these things as sustainably as possible.

With a larger global presence than any other brewer in the business, we’re able to draw strength from the diverse regions we operate in and sell to – driving consumer trends and opening up new market opportunities in the process.

No matter where our more than 84,000 global employees are based or what role they play, each one is driven by the same goals and united under the same values.

Embracing and celebrating diversity is core to HEINEKEN’s purpose of “brewing the joy of true togetherness to inspire a better world”. We believe that people as diverse as our brews – including and not limited to gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religious belief, nationality, social background, disability and thinking style – enrich our lives and strengthen our business. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates as we champion a culture of belonging that provides fair and equal opportunities for all.

It’s what makes us proud to say We Are HEINEKEN.

Role Description : Agile Programme Manager

Reports to : DBB Regional Programme Manager

Location : Bangalore

Role Purpose : 

DBB Deployment is a multi-year programme to deploy the DBB Technology to all Heineken Operating Companies (Opcos), replacing their current ERP system. In each region, several Opcos will be deployed per year in 2025 – 2028.

The Agile Programme Manager is a programme management level role.

He/she is overall responsible for the deployment of the complex DBB technology for Heineken Opcos in a region.

The Agile Programme Manager works together with the Regional Programme Manager to setup the agreed programme delivery methodology, Toolkit, Governance and Plan in the region from a Technology point of view.

He/she leads a team of IT Project Managers that deploy DBB technology for Opcos in the region, in addition he/she manages the deployment of one of the (more complex) Opcos in each deployment wave.

Key responsibilities :

 

Main responsibilities of the regional Tech Lead

• Leads a team of IT Deployment Project Managers who manage IT deployments in the region
• Overall planning of the Technology deployments
• Alignment with the overall Integrated Deployment Plan and interdependencies with other program streams (e.g. Business, Test, Data)
• Regional resource planning
• Stakeholder management, alignment with Product and Portfolio Owners to manage risks, identify dependencies and optimize delivery, alignment with Opco & Regional stakeholders
• Manage IT related escalations
• Status monitoring and reporting on regional level
• Fulfill IT Deployment PM role for (usually) one Opco in each wave

Alignment

• Alignment on status, prioritization, and ways of working within the regional Deployment team and together with the other regional colleagues