IT Transformation Programme Manager

Mission:

Within the Transformation & Technology Delivery (TTD) Department, the Programme Manager will play a pivotal role in delivering one of SGSS Italy's most ambitious strategic transformation initiatives.

The successful candidate will lead the Italian dimension of the IMAGINE Programme, a multi-year transformation aimed at redesigning the SGSS Italy technology landscape and supporting the transition from the current local mainframe-based environment towards an industrialised target operating model leveraging SGSS Group solutions complemented by local capabilities required to address Italian market, business and regulatory specificities.

This strategic programme will reshape the way Securities Services operations are supported in Italy, requiring close coordination between business, operations, technology and control functions while ensuring full alignment with Group standards and local regulatory expectations.

Operating in a highly visible international environment, the Programme Manager will act as one of the key leaders of the transformation, working in close partnership with the French Programme Manager and engaging regularly with senior stakeholders across Italy, France and India.

Beyond the immediate programme scope, the position offers the opportunity to become a long-term reference point within the transformation and project management ecosystem supporting SGSS Italy's strategic ambitions.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Manage programme budget, resource allocation and delivery planning, ensuring alignment with approved

• business objectives and financial targets

• Lead the execution of a complex multi-workstream transformation programme, coordinating business,

• operations, technology and control functions, while ensuring effective management of interdependencies,

• risks and delivery commitments

• Act as the primary point of coordination for all Italian stakeholders involved in the transformation, ensuring

• alignment between local priorities, Group strategy and programme objectives

• Partner closely with the French Programme Manager in a co-leadership model, jointly driving programme

• governance, decision-making, prioritisation and execution across countries

• Ensure that Italian business, operational and regulatory requirements are properly assessed, challenged and

• integrated into programme design and implementation decisions

• Drive organisational change management activities, ensuring stakeholder engagement, communication,

• readiness and adoption throughout the transformation journey

• Lead interactions with regulatory and control functions and ensure programme execution remains fully aligned

• with the expectations of the Italian regulatory environment

• Anticipate, identify and manage programme risks, issues, dependencies and critical decisions, ensuring timely

• escalation and effective mitigation actions

• Prepare and lead governance forums, including Steering Committees, Executive Committees and operational

• decision-making bodies

• Produce clear, impactful and data-driven reporting for senior management and executive stakeholders

• Contribute to the industrialisation and simplification of SGSS Italy's operating model by promoting sustainable

• transformation practices and delivery excellence

• Lead cross-functional and multicultural teams across countries through influence, coordination and shared accountability, fostering alignment around common objectives and delivery commitments

Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in Programme Management, Transformation Management or Strategic Project Leadership roles

• Proven track record leading complex business and technology transformation initiatives within Banking, Securities

• Services, Financial Market Infrastructures, Asset Servicing or other regulated financial environments

• Demonstrated ability to operate in international organisations and multicultural environments

• Previous exposure to interactions with regulators, auditors, compliance and risk functions would be highly valued

Language skills:

• Italian: Native or equivalent professional proficiency, with strong communication and drafting skills for executive, 

  governance and stakeholder management contexts

• English: Advanced professional proficiency, both written and spoken, with the ability to operate effectively in 

  international and multicultural environments

• French: Professional working knowledge would be a strong asset

Technical, operational & Soft skills:

• Management of large-scale transformation programmes with significant business and technology components

• Portfolio management and strategic prioritisation

• Executive-level reporting and governance management

• Driving alignment and consensus across diverse senior stakeholders with potentially competing priorities

• Change management and stakeholder engagement in complex organisational transformation programmes

• Large IT transformation programmes and legacy modernisation initiatives, including data migration

• IT outsourcing and third-party management

• Strong understanding of the Italian financial services and banking environment

• Ability to translate regulatory constraints into programme delivery requirements and transformation decisions

• Strategic Thinking & Execution Excellence

• Leadership & Stakeholder Mobilisation

• Co-Leadership & Partnership Mindset

• Communication & Influence

• Ownership & Accountability

• Navigating Complexity & Ambiguity

• Judgement & Decision-Making

• Resilience & Adaptability

• Executive Presence & Credibility

• Constructive Challenge & Collaboration

• Organisational Awareness & Political Acumen

• Results Orientation & Business Focus

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SGSS has been present in Italy since September 2006 through a dedicated Italian Bank, SGSS S.p.A., one of the main players in the Securities Services' industry that covers all SGSS businesses for its two segments of clients: Financial Institutions & Brokers and Asset Managers & Insurance. Thanks to over 500 employees based in Milan and Turin, SGSS S.p.A. ensures a daily support to over 300 clients. Our clients are institutional investors (insurance companies and pension funds), asset managers, financial intermediaries (brokers, investments companies).

In a highly competitive and fragmented financial market, our ambition is to be the reference partner recognized for its service quality and competitiveness, its agile solutions and international network coverage. We are much more than a partnership: a genuine team. We build long-lasting, collaborative relationships with our clients to help them go further in their development. In today's constantly evolving and complex world, we strive to provide our clients with increasingly efficient and reliable Securities Services on a daily basis to ensure they get ahead.

Changing jobs is an opportunity for you to discover a new environment or a new job, participate in new projects and discover new teams, in Italy and abroad. It is also the way to share your expertise, to bring a new eye to better serve our customers tomorrow.

We are convinced that people are driving change, and that the world of tomorrow will be made up of all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious.

Then take the plunge!