Strategic Project Manager

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Job Description

As a Strategic Program Manager, you will play a key role in shaping the future of grid access and capacity management in response to the growing demand for electrification and the transition to carbon neutrality.

You will lead a strategic initiative to evaluate and redesign the framework for grid connection prioritization, drawing insights from international best practices and aligning with national and regional stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct strategic analysis of grid access models in neighboring countries (e.g., UK, Netherlands) and assess their applicability to the Belgian context.
• Facilitate internal and external interviews and workshops to gather insights and build consensus.
• Develop and implement governance structures to support the program, both within the organization and with external stakeholders.
• Formulate a clear and actionable implementation plan for a revised grid connection framework.
• Address key strategic questions such as:
• How can grid users be prioritized in a socially relevant way across regions (Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels)?
• What is the optimal management model: centralized, decentralized, or hybrid?
• Translate strategic vision into operational processes:
• Define roles and responsibilities
• Redesign connection procedures
• Ensure alignment with regulatory and policy frameworks

Your Profile

• Knowledge of Dutch, French & English (oral and written)
• Well structured to keep the project under control and keep an eye on the vision despite the urgencies
• Sufficient leadership to deal with various internal and external stakeholders and to come up with pragmatic solutions/proposals, both in the short term but also able to work out the long-term vision;
• Knowledge of the context and the Belgian energy sector
• Sufficiently autonomous
• Someone who gets 'energy' from navigating complex files with many stakeholders

What You Will Love About Working Here

• At Capgemini Belgium we offer flexibility in more than one way: next to our hybrid way of working, where we offer you can work 70% from home, we also offer our flex abroad program. With this program you can work up to 45 days abroad, this to maintain a good work-life balance.
• Our mission is your career path. Our array of career growth programs and diverse professions are crafted to support you in exploring a world of opportunities.
• OUTfront, or CapAbilityare 3 examples of employee led networks dedicated to advance diversity, equity and inclusion within workplace and society.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.

Ref. code

341787-en_GB

Posted on

10 Oct 2025

Experience level

Experienced Professionals

Contract type

Permanent

Location

Diegem