Program Manager

An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Program Manager!

Location: Angers (Beaucouze), France or Eden Prairie, MN

Job ID: 45735

Who are we?

HID powers the trusted identities of the world's people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees.Check us out here:www.hidglobal.comandhttps://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo

Secure Issuance (SI):

Secure Issuance, part of HID Global, offers the world's broadest and most sophisticated portfolio of card printers, laser engravers, encoders and software. For more than 25 years, organizations across a variety of industries - from enterprise corporations and government agencies to financial institutions and universities - have relied on HID Global Secure Issuance for the custom personalization and issuance of secure identity credentials and financial cards. With a history of pioneering patented technologies and expertise, business integrity and long-standing customer confidence, HID Global is a global leader in secure card issuance innovation.

We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead and coordinate new strategic initiatives aligned to our Desktop strategy within SI. In this role, you will drive complex, cross-functional and cross-site programs, ensuring strong alignment between engineering teams, product stakeholders, and platform governance bodies. You will operate at the intersection of strategy, execution, and coordination. You will join at a critical moment, as the organization is defining and deploying a new Innovation Execution Model. The ability to onboard quickly, bring structure to emerging topics, and contribute immediately is essential to the success of this role

Key Responsibilities
* Lead the planning, execution, and follow-up of programs across multiple teams and geographic locations.
* Ensure effective coordination and alignment between cross-functional stakeholders, including Engineering, Product Management, Quality, Operations, and Architecture.
* Build, maintain, and communicate a clear program roadmap, including milestones, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans.
* Facilitate decision-making and ensure timely escalation and resolution of issues.
* Drive transparent communication across teams and proactively identify misalignments or execution risks.
* Prepare and present regular status updates, dashboards, and executive-level reports for leadership and steering committees.
* Ensure synchronization and close collaboration with brand-specific project managers to maintain alignment across related initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications
* 10+ years of proven experience as a Project Manager or Program Manager in complex, international, multi-stakeholder environments.
* Strong experience working with distributed, multi-site teams across different time zones and cultures.
* Demonstrated capability in cross-functional coordination involving engineering, product management, and system or platform architecture teams.
* Solid background in program governance, planning, dependency management, and risk management.
* Ability to operate autonomously in fast-paced and evolving environments, with a strong aptitude for structuring ambiguous or early-stage topics.
* Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken); proficiency in French is highly desirable.

Location

Angers (Beaucouze), France - required travel 25% (US)

Eden Prairie, MN - required travel 25%-50% (France)

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Qui sommes-nous ?
HID permet de securiser l'identite des personnes, des lieux et des objets dans le monde entier, afin que chacun puisse effectuer des transactions en toute securite, travailler efficacement et voyager librement.
Nous sommes une entreprise de haute technologie specialisee dans les logiciels, dont le siege est situe a Austin, au Texas, et qui compte plus de 4 500 employes a travers le monde.
Decouvrez-nous ici : www.hidglobal.com et https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo

Secure Issuance (SI)
Secure Issuance, une division de HID Global, propose le portefeuille le plus vaste et le plus sophistique au monde en matiere d'imprimantes de cartes, de graveurs laser, d'encodeurs et de logiciels. Depuis plus de 25 ans, des organisations de divers secteurs - grandes entreprises, administrations publiques, institutions financieres, universites - font confiance a HID Global Secure Issuance pour la personnalisation et l'emission de cartes d'identite securisees et de cartes financieres. Grace a une histoire riche en technologies brevetees, a une expertise solide, une integrite commerciale reconnue et une confiance client durable, HID Global est un leader mondial de l'innovation dans l'emission securisee de cartes.

Nous recherchons un(e) Program Manager experiemente.Vous piloterez et coordonnerez de nouvelles initiatives strategiques alignees sur notre strategie Desktop au sein de SI. Vous conduirez des programmes complexes, transverses et multi-sites, en garantissant une forte coherence entre les equipes d'ingenierie, les parties prenantes produit et les instances de gouvernance des plateformes.Vous interviendrez a l'intersection entre strategie, execution et coordination.
Vous rejoignez l'entreprise a un moment cle, alors que nous definissons et deployons un nouveau modele d'execution de l'innovation. Votre capacite a monter rapidement en competence, structurer des sujets emergents et contribuer immediatement sera essentielle pour reussir dans ce role.

Responsabilites principales
* Piloter la planification, l'execution et le suivi des programmes impliquant plusieurs equipes et sites geographiques.
* Assurer une coordination efficace et un alignement entre les parties prenantes transverses : R&D, Product Management, Qualite, Operations et Architecture.
* Construire, maintenir et communiquer une feuille de route programmatique claire, incluant jalons, dependances, risques et plans de mitigation.
* Faciliter la prise de decision et assurer l'escalade et la resolution rapide des problemes.
* Favoriser une communication transparente entre equipes et identifier de maniere proactive les risques de mauvaise coordination ou d'execution.
* Preparer et presenter des mises a jour regulieres, tableaux de bord et rapports a destination de la direction et des comites de pilotage.
* Assurer la synchronisation et une collaboration etroite avec les chefs de projets dedies aux marques afin de garantir la coherence entre les initiatives connexes.

Competences et qualifications requises
* 10+ annees d'experience averee en tant que Chef(fe) de Projet ou Program Manager dans des environnements complexes, internationaux et multiacteurs.
* Forte experience du travail avec des equipes distribuees, multi-sites, operant sur differents fuseaux horaires et dans differentes cultures.
* Capacite demontree a coordonner des acteurs transverses, notamment les equipes d'ingenierie, de gestion de produit et d'architecture systeme ou plateforme.
* Solide experience en gouvernance programme, planification, gestion des dependances et gestion des risques.
* Capacite a travailler de maniere autonome dans des environnements dynamiques et en evolution, avec un fort sens de la structuration de sujets ambigus ou en phase amont.
* Excellentes competences en communication en anglais (oral et ecrit) ; la maitrise du francais est fortement souhaitee.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go - without having to think about it.

When you join our HID team, you'll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You'll have 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions - supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it's important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.

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