Program Governance Lead

Your tasks

• Managing assigned projects and ensuring delivery within agreed scope, timelines, dependencies, and commitments;
• Proactively identifying, managing, and escalating project risks and issues, while coordinating resolution with relevant stakeholders;
• Maintaining clear, timely, and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle;
• Owning and continuously enhancing the program governance framework, including standards, processes, and reporting;
• Planning, organising, and facilitating program governance forums and performance-review meetings;
• Consolidating delivery information to provide transparent oversight of progress, risks, dependencies, deviations, and key decisions;
• Challenging delivery plans, forecasts, and commitments where necessary and driving appropriate corrective actions;
• Tracking and ensuring follow-up of program decisions, actions, and agreed commitments;
• Developing, maintaining, and communicating the integrated program roadmap;
• Ensuring alignment across initiatives, interdependencies, delivery plans, and business priorities;
• Coordinating program-level change forecasting and assessing impacts on delivery, resources, timelines, and financial performance;
• Providing forward-looking insights on emerging risks, changes, and potential delivery impacts to senior stakeholders;
• Partnering with Finance to manage program forecasting, financial performance monitoring, and budget oversight;
• Monitoring actuals against forecasts, investigating material variances, and challenging deviations where appropriate;
• Identifying and driving cost-saving and cost-optimisation opportunities across the program;
• Assessing the financial implications of program changes, resource decisions, and delivery scenarios;
• Delivering financial and performance insights to support effective management decision-making;
• Governing external resource utilisation across the program;
• Collaborating with Product Owners and delivery stakeholders to challenge resource demand, capacity plans, and forecasts;
• Identifying opportunities to optimise, reallocate, or release external resources in a timely manner;
• Supporting program cost optimisation through effective resource and capacity management;
• Preparing high-quality program reporting and executive presentations for Business Owners and senior leadership;
• Creating concise, decision-oriented materials for executive and Board-level governance forums;
• Translating complex delivery, financial, and resource data into clear, actionable management insights;
• Facilitating senior stakeholder discussions and supporting informed, timely decision-making.

Your Profile

• Ability to oversee complex programs, manage interdependencies, risks, resources and roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business objectives and successful delivery;
• Strong capability of financial forecasting, budget monitoring, cost optimization and resource allocation, ensuring financial control and efficient utilization of resources;
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, communicate complex information effectively, drive cross-functional alignment and support strategic decision-making;
• German is not mandatory but will be considered as an advantage.

In return, we offer:

• Good work-life balance, including 25 days annual paid leave (increasing with 1 day per year up to 31 in total), flexible working hours, work-from-home and work from abroad opportunities;
• Luxury package of additional health and dental insurance;
• Food vouchers in the amount of EUR 80 monthly;
• 6 additional annual days off for exceptional circumstances
• Employee assistance program for psychological, financial and legal consultations;
• Multisport card;
• Annual contribution of EUR 153.39 net per child for a summer camp/school/kindergarten for children up to age of 15;
• Possibilities for building career-advancing skills by covering training/certification courses and conferences based on individual learning and development needs, access to an online learning platform;
• Opportunities for long-term professional development in a stable, 150-year-old company while contributing to the vision of a new, just starting Digital Technology Center;
• Friendly and supportive multicultural environment, open to new opinions and ideas.

Commerzbank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, national origin, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, disability, age, or any other characteristics.

Our Benefits

• Learning Platforms
• Children Summer Camp Contribution
• Employee assistance program
• Food vouchers
• 6 Exceptional Days Off
• 25 up to 31 annual paid leave
• Multisport Card
• Health & Dental Insurance
• Work-life balance
• Work internationally

The company

Commerzbank is a leading international commercial bank with branches and offices in almost 50 countries. The world is changing, becoming digital, and so are we. We are leaving the traditional bank behind us and we are choosing to move forward as a digital enterprise.

As part of this strategy, Commerzbank continues the expansion of its Digital Technology Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. We need motivated people who will join us on this journey and we are looking for a Program Governance Lead our Network and Security Infrastructure team.

Within the cluster Network & Security Infrastructure (NSI), we provide a global end-to-end operation of network and security services. This includes strategic development of network services, product, and hardware management up to various service offerings regarding Network & Security Infrastructure or digitalization activities.

The purpose of the Program Governance Lead role is to provide program-level governance, performance oversight and strategic coordination while maintaining project management responsibilities, ensuring alignment between delivery, financial performance, resource utilization, program priorities and business objectives.

The role acts as a central governance and coordination point across Product, Delivery, Finance, Business Owners and external resources, providing transparency, challenge and decision support to senior stakeholders.

Contact

Apply now with your up-to-date CV in English!

Due to the high volume of applications, we contact only the candidates who best match the role requirements. If you do not hear from us within 14 days, please consider that we won't proceed with your application at this stage.