WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT FOR US The Head of Program Delivery is a defining leadership role, accountable for building the capability that ensures SimCorp's most significant client programs are delivered with consistency, credibility, and momentum.
SimCorp's client engagements span multiple product domains, engineering teams, and commercial stakeholders and they are only growing in scale. The need for a dedicated, highly capable program delivery function has never been greater. This role establishes that function from the ground up: developing a team of Program Delivery Leads, setting the standard for how programs are run, and personally leading delivery on the most strategically significant engagements.
Reporting to the Head of Strategic Product Enablement, this role ensures that:
- SimCorp has a repeatable, scalable model for delivering multi-product client programs.
- Program Delivery Leads are developed, supported, and held to a consistent standard of excellence.
- The most critical client engagements have direct senior leadership and accountability.
- Clients experience SimCorp as a coordinated, professional partner, regardless of which team or product domain they are engaging with
The outcome is a program delivery function that scales with SimCorp's ambitions - one that clients trust, internal teams respect, and the business can rely on.
WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR Building & Leading the Program Delivery Function - Build, develop, and lead a team of Program Delivery Leads, establishing a high-performance culture grounded in clear ownership, craft, and client focus
- Define and continuously refine how programs are run at SimCorp, including delivery cadences, core artifacts, escalation paths, and standards for internal and client communication.
- Create the conditions for your team to do their best work: clear expectations, effective coaching, and the support and organizational backing to operate with confidence
- Act as the escalation point for your team on difficult delivery challenges, helping them navigate ambiguity and make sound judgments when stakes are high
Direct Program Leadership - Personally lead delivery on SimCorp's most strategically significant client programs, modelling the standard you set for your team.
- Serve as the senior point of accountability for program coordination across product, engineering, and commercial workstreams on flagship engagements.
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, translating between technical and commercial audiences and ensuring they have a consistent, credible view of program status, tradeoffs, and timelines throughout the program lifecycle.
Client Partnership - Serve as the senior SimCorp relationship owner for flagship client programs, ensuring clients experience SimCorp as a single, coordinated partner across product domains.
- Establish the operating rhythm with client stakeholders: steering committees, executive check-ins, and escalation forums that build trust over the life of the program.
Risk, Escalation & Decision Enablement - Maintain visibility across all active programs, identifying systemic risks and patterns that individual leads may not see from their vantage point.
- Exercise sound judgment on when to step in and when to let your team lead, building their capability while protecting program and client outcomes.
- Lead decision-making forums at the program and portfolio level, framing tradeoffs clearly and building alignment across internal and client stakeholders
Program Reporting & Operational Rigor - Own the operational framework for program delivery: the reporting structures, tooling, templates, and quality standards.
- Maintain a portfolio-level view of program health, giving leadership visibility across all active engagements.
- Continuously improve delivery practices based on what is actually happening across programs, turning experience into repeatable standards.
WHAT WE VALUE Core experience - 8+ years in enterprise software delivery, with at least 3 in a leadership role managing program managers or delivery leads in enterprise B2B environments.
- Demonstrated success building or scaling a program delivery function, with experience developing talent and elevating team performance
- Demonstrated ability to lead client-facing programs at senior levels, with the credibility to engage executive stakeholders on both sides
- Solid understanding of financial markets and the institutional investment management landscape, including how buy-side firms operate across front, middle, and back office.
- Direct experience delivering financial software to institutional clients, with a working grasp of the architectural and operational realities involved (data, workflows, integrations, release cycles).
- Familiarity with how modern software development works: agile, engineering tradeoffs, and the dynamics between product, engineering, and delivery.
- Familiarity with how modern software development works: agile, release cycles, and engineering tradeoffs.
How you work - Builds capability in others: A leader who builds capability in others through coaching, developing, and holding a team to a high standard while giving them the space to grow.
- Effective written and verbal communicator: Able to translate between technical and commercial audiences.
- Thinks in systems: A systems thinker who maps dependencies, sequences work, and cuts through complexity to keep programs focused on what drives outcomes.
- Structure from ambiguity: Brings clarity to ambiguous situations, able to build repeatable practices from first principles where none exist yet.
- Judgment in difficult situations: Knows when to escalate, when to absorb, and how to keep stakeholders confident without overpromising
- Executive presence: Holds the room with sophisticated client stakeholders, building credibility quickly and sustaining it through difficult conversations.
- Commercially aware: Understands how delivery decisions land with clients and the business, even when not in the room for commercial conversations.
- Steady under scrutiny: Comfortable owning programs with visibility at executive and board level.
BENEFITS SimCorp offers several benefits that might play a significant factor in considering whether to accept a job offer. Since SimCorp operates in 30+ offices worldwide, the benefits package may vary from country to country.
Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.
NEXT STEPS Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually.At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.
If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.
The position is for an active, existing vacancy.
For New York City only: The salary range for this position is $221,000-$331,000 USD. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including health care, leave, and retirement plans. Your total compensation may vary based on role, location, department and individual performance.
For Toronto only: The salary range for this position is $229,000 to 275,000 CAD. Base pay may vary based on factors such as years of experience, skills and qualifications. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and benefits including health and dental care, time off and Group RRSP/TFSA.
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