Program Manager

Company DescriptionWe were founded by Axel Springer in 2018 as a 100 per cent owned company and combine the digital activities and participation in real estate, car and generalist classifieds in Germany (Immowelt), France (Meilleurs Agents, Groupe SeLoger, Logic-Immo, Car & Boat Media), Belgium (Immoweb), Spain (Housell) and Israel (Yad2), making us one of the world’s biggest digital classified players.

We also hold Axel Springer’s minority participation in companies such as Purplebricks, Homeday and Zumper. Our vision is to serve consumers in their important decisions in life and to simplify not only the search for a new property or car but to also provide additional services in adjacent markets.

This is an exciting time to join us in our ambition to become Europe’s leading PropTech business - helping us unlock everyone’s perfect place

**What is the P&T Transformation team about**

**Job Description**:
**What we are looking for**

We are looking for a Program Manager to lead the planning, managing, and evaluation of programs, operations, and processes. To be successful as a Program Manager, you should be able to provide expert guidance to optimise systems, procedures, and processes, evaluate operational and program effectiveness and develop solutions to make improvements or address performance issues. An outstanding Program Manager should have strong project management, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills. In this role, you will also need an in-depth understanding of Agile Software Product Development practices and possess experience working in a software product-led organisation. To be successful in this role, you need to bring a consulting mindset and be flexible to move from one topic to the next as needs arise and are in line with the transformational journey we’re on at Aviv.

**Your Responsibilities**
- Reporting into the Head of Product & Tech Transformation Group, the Program Manager will be responsible for executing key programs of work that drives the Aviv transformation forward.
- The programs will be diverse in nature spanning people and change topics to technical operations and governance.
- The transformation is complex and far reaching so you will be expected to manage program & project management responsibilities depending on the circumstances.
- Work closely with the Agile Coach function, which is part of the P&T Transformation Group, and are embedded within the product organisation to drive Agile ways of working best practices and provide visibility into areas of operational concern.
- Help the Product domain product and tech leadership focus on delivery value to the business by removing obstacles and accelerating value creation.
- Facilitate workshops and meetings toward clear and actionable outcomes
- Communicate decisions, policy and process by leading briefings, writing presentations and documenting on Confluence, Miro or other knowledge platforms.
- Conduct research, analyse data, prepare reports related to the program
- Analyse programs, policies, processes, and systems and make recommendations to
- optimise these.
- Build reports in JIRA (or Jellyfish) and/or BI tools to help tell a story and tie engineering data with business strategy
- Help product and technology leaders manage their organisations through metrics and business data.
- Provide mentoring and support to colleagues who lack program or project management experience.

**Qualifications**:
**Who You Are**
- Experienced in project strategy, risk assessment and planning, quality control and reporting on performance to key stakeholders and leadership.
- Ability to create schedules, communicate with team members and ensure that deliverables and milestones are met on schedule.
- Top-notch communication skills for presenting new ideas and the ability to structure them into executional programs of work.
- Excellent collaborative skills and ability to maintain positive work relationships.
- Excellent presentation building skills to help tell a story and narrate
- achievements.
- Strong research/analytical skills collecting the information needed to push
- through with new business projects.
- Up-to-date with market trends, movement, and innovations for using tools
- with a focus on software product building mindset.
- Preferably is an expert in JIRA/Confluence and has exposure to Jellyfish but not Mandatory.
- Good handle on gathering, manipulating and synthesising data for reporting proposes. Advanced Excel skills and experience with BI tools (Tableau or PowerBI) is table stakes.
- Willing to learn new tools and being hands on to deliver a solution.
- Experience in matrix stakeholder management.
- Preferably having relevant experience of over 5 years.

Additional Information
**What we offer you**
- We are one of the leading PropTech platforms in Europe. If you’ve ever rented or purchased a property then you may have used one of our classified portals. This is a great time to join us to help elevate ou