Programme Manager - Digital Currency

Programme Manager - Digital Currency (m/f/d)

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• Gain top‑level visibility working with senior leaders and key institutions.
• Shape Europe’s digital financial future with a flagship DLT settlement programme.

The client is a major European public authority with responsibility for financial stability, monetary oversight, and the operation of core financial market infrastructures across the euro area. Its market infrastructure unit runs key European payment and settlement platforms and drives innovation in digital finance, tokenisation, and DLT-based settlement models. The organization is multicultural, mission‑driven, collaborative, and strongly committed to advancing Europe’s financial and technological autonomy.

• Full end‑to‑end accountability for the strategy and execution of a newly created wholesale digital settlement programme leveraging DLT.
• Lead an integrated programme model bringing together two major initiatives that historically existed in separate streams, ensuring they now interact fluidly and inform one another continuously.
• Oversee transversal design and delivery leads who operate across both initiatives, not in silos, ensuring alignment, coherence, and acceleration.

• Define programme direction jointly with top leadership
• Translate long‑term public‑policy objectives into a cohesive strategy and roadmap.
• Act as a senior representative of the programme, articulating its vision, purpose and strategy to market actors, public institutions and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure the programme contributes meaningfully to Europe’s strategic autonomy in financial market infrastructure.

• Build and structure a new integrated programme model that dissolves previous silos between two large initiatives.
• Ensure the two work streams inform, reinforce, and interact with each other naturally and frequently, rather than being developed in parallel with only occasional touchpoints.
• Define team structures, operating rhythms, decision‑making processes and governance mechanisms.
• Oversee transversal roles (Product Design Manager and Product Delivery Manager) operating across all programme domains.

• Provide strategic guidance on which DLT frameworks, architectures and technology components best serve the programme’s objectives.
• Evaluate alternatives and steer the team toward technically sound and policy‑aligned decisions.
• Ensure high‑level architecture remains coherent across both integrated work streams.
• Oversee the definition of deliverables, interdependencies and a realistic technical roadmap.

• Lead engagement with financial institutions, infrastructure operators and technology providers.
• Understand market incentives and needs while guiding participants toward solutions consistent with public policy objectives.
• Inspire market actors to collaborate constructively in shaping next‑generation settlement capabilities.
• Navigate complex, multi‑layered governance structures within a large European institutional environment.
• Prepare and escalates decisions, propose solutions and ensure alignment across senior committees and leadership bodies.
• Manage relationships with multiple national institutions who serve both as future users and as developers/providers of parts of the settlement infrastructure.
• Balance institutional priorities, foster compromise and maintain cohesion across countries with differing perspectives.
• Apply strong negotiation skills to align actors with competing mandates.
• Understand political considerations in the institutional sense: governance dynamics, influence patterns, priorities and sensitivities.
• Ensure solutions remain feasible, acceptable and strategically aligned for all stakeholders.

• Represent the programme credibly in market discussions, conferences and strategic forums.
• Provide a clear narrative, vision and explanation of the programme's objectives and progress.
• Serve as a…