Senior Manager, Athene Programme

Senior Manager, Athene Programme Are you a people leader with a strong programme and project management background? Do you excel at creating momentum, leading experienced project managers, and delivering complex transformation initiatives in a high-stakes environment? As Senior Manager, Athene Programme, you will join the leadership team of the Athene Programme and take ownership of a portfolio of strategic transformation initiatives across Supply Chain Management and Data Platform. You will lead a team of experienced project managers and play a key role in ensuring that projects are delivered successfully, while building a strong delivery culture and developing the people behind the delivery. You will be expected to challenge stakeholders, create clarity in complexity, make decisions, remove obstacles, and help the organisation move forward. Success requires both strong leadership and strong execution capabilities.   What success will look like? As Senior Manager, Athene Programme, you will be responsible for delivering business-critical transformation initiatives through others. Success is measured not only by project outcomes, but by your ability to build a high-performing team, create alignment across stakeholders, and drive execution in a complex international environment. During your first 6 months, we expect you to: Establish ownership of your project portfolio across the Supply Chain Management and Data Platform value streams. Build strong relationships with project managers, business leaders, IT stakeholders, and programme leadership. Create clarity around priorities, governance, delivery plans, risks, and dependencies. Put effective leadership and follow-up routines in place for the project managers reporting to you. Become a trusted sparring partner to the Programme Director and wider leadership team.   Within your first year, you will have: Delivered key programme commitments according to agreed timelines and objectives. Built a motivated and high-performing team of project managers with clear accountability and ownership. Strengthened collaboration across Business Transformation, IT, and the business organisation. Established a strong delivery culture focused on transparency, execution, and shared accountability. Successfully supported major programme implementations and business readiness activities. In the longer term, you will: Build a project management capability that continues to create value beyond the Athene programme. Create an environment where talented project managers grow, develop, and choose to stay. Help strengthen STARK Group's overall transformation and delivery capabilities. Be recognised as a leader who turns complexity into tangible business results while bringing people along on the journey.   The role includes approximately 30-50 travel days annually across the Nordics.   Team, Reporting Line & Collaboration You will report to Tommas Bjørnbak Tygesen, Programme Director and Vice…