Programme Manager

About The Role

At GÉANT, we design and deliver the advanced network infrastructure that powers Europe’s research and education sector. Our work connects scientists, students, and innovators across borders—and underpins many of the world’s most ambitious research collaborations. 

We’re looking for an experienced Programme Manager to lead complex, high-impact networking programmes. These programmes often involve multiple technologies, partners, and stakeholders—requiring strong coordination, clear structure, and steady, effective leadership. You won’t need to be hands-on technically, but you will need to stay close enough to the work to understand delivery risks, recognise quality, and drive progress.

What you’ll be doing:

As Programme Manager, you’ll be responsible for guiding strategic initiatives from concept through to operational handover. You’ll work across teams, functions, and countries to deliver results in a live, technically complex environment.

• Lead the delivery of large-scale programmes from start to finish.
• Work closely with technical teams to drive successful outcomes.
• Manage programme budgets, risks, and stakeholder relationships.
• Ensure governance, reporting, and operational handover is seamless.
• Deliver results in complex projects

About You

We’re seeking someone with strong programme management skills, solid experience delivering large and technically complex projects, and the ability to work effectively across diverse teams and stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven experience in managing large-scale technical programmes (ideally with budgets above €10 million).
• Strong understanding of network technologies and the delivery of major infrastructure projects.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A calm, dependable presence with the ability to navigate complexity and drive progress.
• At GÉANT, we connect the world’s brightest minds and facilitate global research collaborations. If you're ready to lead in a high-impact role with innovative projects, we’d love to hear from you! 

About Us

Why work for GÉANT? 
GÉANT is at the heart of research and education networking, we offer talented people the opportunity to be part of something meaningful and worthwhile. With 150 employees based in Amsterdam and Cambridge, together we deliver an information ecosystem of infrastructure and services to advance research, education, and innovation on a global scale. Thanks to our terabit network, 50 million researchers, scientists, academics and students can share record volumes of data unconstrained by location, solving some of humankind’s biggest challenges. Work at GÉANT and you’ll be supporting critical research into sustainable energy, deep space, high-energy physics, earth observation, environmental disasters, medicine and much more! 

Benefits of working for GÉANT
You’ll receive excellent benefits at GÉANT – we offer a generous holiday allowance and a 5% end of year bonus/allowance as standard. The other benefits you receive will depend on the country you are employed in, but you can rest assured that these will include an appropriate pension scheme and medical insurance.

Working Arrangements
We have adopted a flexible-hybrid model which means that employees will work flexibly between a remote and office environment.  Weekly visits to the office are required for most employees to support our values and collaborative culture and enable our teams to deliver great work.  For this role we anticipate that you may be required in the office for around 2 days per week.