Strategic Programme Manager
Let’s face it: out-of-pocket expenses suck. Manual expense spreadsheets are old-school. No one wants to wait until payday to be reimbursed for something they bought for work, and finance teams have better things to do than spend hours tapping away on Excel. At Pleo, we’re on a mission to change this. We’re here to make spend management surprisingly effective and empowering – for finance teams and employees.
And that's what we're here to do. But we need your help 🤝
Pleo is looking for a Strategic Programme Manager to to join our Strategy and Commercial Effectiveness team.
What do we need?
We are looking for a best-in-class Programme Manager to join our Strategy and Commercial Effectiveness team in our new Hub in Chennai on a hybrid working arrangement. We will need you to work on a CET timezone. This is a multi-functional team focussed on 10x initiatives that combine strategy, data, operations, and cutting-edge technology, in order to build efficiencies in Pleo’s GTM via Sales, CS, Product and Comms.
You must have a proven track record as a Programme Manager with experience managing end-to-end execution of a project and a team to support successful delivery.
You will be supporting and delivering major business growth by building robust and smart processes as well as problem solving for new and innovative solutions that will 10x Pleo’s growth.
What to expect in the role 💡
In this role, you will lead various commercial programmes covering the revenue efficiency of the entire customer lifecycle from a strategic and operational nature. Some examples are:
- Lead and New Business revenue acquisition
- Growth revenue pipeline
- Churn prevention
- Product adoption
- AI-assisted GTM delivery
- Scalable PLG and comms distribution
- Customer profile scoring and segmentation
We are involved where the business needs new innovative ideas related to revenue efficiency and effectiveness to be ideated, designed, built, launched and measured.
You’ll be keeping yourself busy…
- Leading the end-to-end delivery of cross-functional projects for implementation of new, high-impact commercial processes including successful adoption and change management.
- Defining new strategic initiatives, and building structured business cases for innovative solutions to make commercial distribution successful.
- Developing rigorously, fact-based, quantitative analysis to support recommendations for Revenue growth and expansion across the customer life-cycle
- Communicating recommendations and new process enablement to senior management and function teams in a clear, concise and impactful way
- Leading stakeholder engagement, facilitating and collaborating in project team meetings and acting as the key orchestrator of process and delivery
- Managing one other team member in their programme management career development.
- Managing deadlines, prioritising workloads, bringing high velocity, and maintaining strong attention to detail to meet organisational objectives and quality measures
What we need from you:
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Programme Manager or Strategy & Operations role
- Background in consulting, startup or industry-related experience managing teams of cross-discipline resources with complex, multi-location programs is a plus
- Exceptional organizational and time-management skills with a proven ability to manage multiple projects/people concurrently and ensure timely delivery
- Ability to think outside-the-box and problem solve for some of the hardest growth problems at Pleo. This is supported by strong analytical and decision-making abilities.
- Experience handling high-pressure situations and tight deadlines.
- Experience developing people in their career growth, as well as senior stakeholder management.
- Proficiency in Excel or Gsheet, including formulas, pivot tables, and data visualisation techniques.
Why join us?
Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.
We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.
Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
So, in a nutshell, that's Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ'd out of Copenhagen means we're inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don't work in the office with us, we'll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.
About your application
- Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join 💕
- We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support isn't able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone 😊
- We’re on a mission to make everyone feel valued at work. That’s only achievable if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes! We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.
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The first call(s)
Let’s get to know each other. We want to find out more about you, your motivations, and give you more information about the role.
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The challenge
The task is deliberately open-ended and based on something you'll actually work on. There are no right or wrong answers here.
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The team interview
Expect to share a (virtual) meeting room with two to three people you'll work with regularly if you get the job.
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The final interview
A call with someone in leadership who’ll walk you through the big picture and chat about how your role will figure into that.
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