Senior Program Manager to Group PMO (Foundation Portfolio)

About the job

We are seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead strategic initiatives within Saxo’s Foundation Portfolio, focused on simplifying the core, strengthening data and platforms, and embedding automation and AI to enable scalable, efficient, and compliant growth.

This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of strategy and execution, requiring mastery in driving large-scale transformation, orchestrating complexity, and delivering measurable business outcomes.

You will join the Group PMO, a central new established function driving strategy execution excellence, portfolio transparency, and value realization, with direct exposure to senior leadership and enterprise-wide change.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end transformation programs. Drive large-scale, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution, ensuring clear scope, disciplined delivery, and outcome focus
• Translate strategy into measurable impact. Convert strategic priorities into structured roadmaps, OKRs, and delivery plans, ensuring tangible business outcomes are monitored
• Orchestrate enterprise alignment: Align business, technology, data, and operations, managing dependencies, sequencing, and trade-offs across initiatives
• Ensure delivery discipline: Own plans, timelines, budgets, and resources, ensuring execution within scope, capacity, and regulatory constraints
• Drive coordinated execution across multiple parallel initiatives, managing trade-offs and interdependencies to deliver integrated outcomes
• Manage risk and complexity: Proactively identify and mitigate risks and interdependencies, ensuring transparency to senior stakeholders

• Engage senior stakeholders: Act as a trusted partner to leadership, providing clear reporting, governance, and decision support
• Drive adoption and value realization: Ensure new capabilities are embedded and adopted, delivering sustained organisational impact
• Drive continuous improvement and PM excellence
  Contribute to strengthening PMO standards, tools, and ways of working

Your profile

We are looking for an ambitious, structured, and impact-driven leader who is motivated by solving complex challenges and delivering tangible business outcomes.  

• You bring: 8–10+ years of experience delivering large-scale transformation programmes with enterprise-wide impact
• A strong track record within financial services and/or complex technology environments
• Proven ability to translate strategic direction into concrete execution and measurable results
• Extensive experience working in cross-functional, international organisations
• Solid expertise in programme governance, risk management, and structured delivery frameworks (e.g. PMI, Agile, or hybrid models)
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage senior leadership
• A highly structured, analytical, and outcome-oriented mindset, combined with strong ownership and problem-solving capabilities

We get curious people invested in the world
 

When you work at Saxo, you become a Saxonian and part of a purpose-driven organisation, where good ideas are always taken seriously, and where you can make a true impact. We are invested in your development, and you can expect a robust career from day one when you join Saxo – no matter which role you take on.
 

You will join 2,500 other ambitious colleagues across 15 countries and become part of an international organisation. Working in Saxo, you will get to meet colleagues from many different cultures and backgrounds, and you should know that we value diversity and inclusion and see it as a genuine source of strength to drive growth, foster innovation and position us for long-term success. 
 
We encourage an open feedback culture and supportive team environments enabling employees to grow and fulfil their career aspirations.  

When you bring passion, curiosity, drive and team spirit, your learning journey will be dynamic and your career opportunities in Saxo will be immense.

At Saxo we don’t just offer a job – we offer an opportunity to invest in your future!  

How to apply :

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