Principal Program Manager

Your main responsibilities:

• Program Management Office - Establish and maintain governance frameworks, ensuring programs adhere to organizational standards, policies, and best practices

• Portfolio & Resource Management - Coordinate resource allocation across projects and programs to optimize capacity and meet strategic priorities

• Cross-Functional Orchestration - Coordinate efforts across multiple business units, product teams, and technical functions to ensure alignment and accountability. Drive communication, reports to senior management (incl. SteerCos, IR, BoD, OP, etc.), resolve conflicts, and remove obstacles to delivery. Establish governance models to maintain transparency and track progress

• Execution Excellence - Own end-to-end program management, ensuring timely, on-budget, and on-scope delivery. Monitor key performance indicators such as milestone achievement and budget variance. Proactively identify risks and implement mitigation plans

• Risk & Issue Management Support - Facilitate identification, tracking, and mitigation of risks and issues across programs to minimize impact on objectives

• Process Improvement & Best Practices - Promote program management standards, tools, and methodologies across the organization. Mentor other program managers to strengthen delivery capabilities and continuously optimize processes for agility and efficiency

Who We’re Looking For:

You are a seasoned program manager with a proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives that drive strategic business outcomes. You excel at coordinating diverse teams and managing multiple stakeholders, from executives to operational staff. You thrive in dynamic environments, adept at managing scope changes, technological challenges, and market fluctuations. You bring a data-driven mindset to performance tracking and decision-making, and you balance urgency with quality to ensure successful delivery. Your leadership ensures smooth adoption of new processes and fosters continuous improvement across programs.

This role is a great fit if you have:

• Fluent English – essential for navigating our international environment

• 8+ years of proven experience in project or program management, ideally within consulting, business strategy, or a similarly dynamic field

• A strong grasp of business strategy and the ability to manage complex stakeholder networks in matrixed, international organizations

• Strategic mindset with sharp problem-solving and critical thinking skills

• A data-driven approach, with hands-on experience using BI and project management tools to inform decisions

• Knowledge of PMI, ITIL, PRINCE2, or Agile methodologies is a plus

• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills — you work well with diverse teams and bring people together to get things done

If you’re ready to lead a flagship program that shapes the future of our marketplace and drives long-term business success, we want to hear from you.

What we offer:

• A hybrid work model. Well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)

• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan – you choose what you like (e.g. medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers)

• English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job

• Work in a team you can always count on – we have on board top-class specialists and experts in their areas of expertise

• Training budget and an internal educational platform, MindUp (with training courses on work organization, means of communication, motivation to work and various technologies and substantive issues)

Why is it worth working with us?

• You will ensure  a customer-first approach at Allegro by aligning design with business and product objectives

• You will elevate Allegro’s experience to the highest level. Leverage deep insights from internal and external research, market analysis and data trends to identify high-impact opportunities

• You will work with first-class experts and leaders who are eager to share their knowledge

• Your decisions will make a difference and shape one of the leading e-commerce in Europe. No wonder, since our platform handles over 30 million searches daily

• This is a great opportunity to join a team passionate about building customer engagement and technology

• If you want to learn more,  check it out for yourself