Interim Program Manager - Access Control
What are you going to do?
"Make an impact on a multi-year technology transformation that brings our existing access control solutions together in one future-ready platform."
Within Security, Nedap helps organizations keep people, buildings, and assets secure and accessible. Our solutions are used in complex environments where reliability, continuity, and ease of use directly affect the day-to-day work of customers and users.
We are developing a new access control platform that brings together the strengths of our existing on-premises and cloud-native solutions. This challenge goes beyond product development alone. We are building a platform that spans software, cloud, firmware, hardware, UX, and services, while enabling existing customers to migrate responsibly.
As Interim Program Manager you own the program approach, roadmap, governance and cross-domain execution. You will provide direction to this multi-year program and be responsible for its overall coherence and progress. You will connect strategy with execution, make dependencies and decisions explicit, and enable teams to deliver toward a shared outcome.
You will build the structure needed to make sound decisions, identify risks at an early stage, and adjust the program when planning, scope, or capacity comes under pressure. You will not manage the program from a distance. You will work directly with product, technology, operations, and commercial stakeholders and make clear how less visible work, such as reducing technical debt, contributes to customer value and scalability.
Your responsibilities
You develop and maintain an integrated roadmap across four connected domains: the customer journey, Access Management Core, the installation journey for partners, and devices and hardware.
You establish the governance structure, including decision-making, steering committees, reporting, escalation routes, and clear responsibilities across teams and domains.
You bring these disciplines together and resolve conflicting priorities and dependencies in a focused and effective way.
You turn the migration challenge into clear decisions relating to product, technology, implementation, partner support, and commercial feasibility.
You maintain oversight and demonstrably bring a program that is at risk of going off track back to a manageable and credible path.
You improve collaboration between Agile teams and make the business value of technical foundations, architectural choices, and technical debt understandable and measurable.
Your team
As the Interim Program Manager you own the program execution and the sponsor (Head of tech) owns strategic direction, investment and organizational intervention. The program brings together product leaders, architects, engineers, UX specialists, cloud and firmware experts, hardware teams, operations, and commercial colleagues.
Most of the expertise comes from within the existing organization and is brought together around the program. You are not an additional management layer above project managers. You are the content-involved owner of the program approach and its shared delivery.
Strategic decisions remain the responsibility of Nedap management. You ensure that the relevant information, options, and consequences are clearly presented.
Our offer
What's in it for you?
This is an independent, temporary assignment with clearly defined outcomes and significant influence on the content and direction of the program. You will have access to the people, information, and expertise needed to shape and advance a program of strategic importance.
An initial assignment of at least twelve months within a program with a multi-year horizon.
An indicative commitment of four to five days per week.
Regular presence at the Nedap Campus in Groenlo, expected to be approximately three days per week, with occasional visits to customers or partners.
The autonomy to determine the program approach, governance, and delivery method within the agreed scope.
Direct collaboration with senior stakeholders across technology, product, operations, and commercial functions.
Required skills
You bring clarity and direction to a complex environment without removing its energy and momentum. You are transparent about uncertainty, ask incisive questions, and are prepared to challenge an agreed approach, including your own. When someone challenges your thinking, you examine the substance rather than defend your position.
You take ownership of issues that fall between teams or roles, visibly learn from decisions that did not work out, and help others do the same. This enables you to build collaboration that remains effective under pressure.
You have led a large-scale, customer-facing technology transformation, preferably involving the upgrade or migration of a system already in use by customers.
You have experience with programs that combine several disciplines, such as software, hardware, implementation, and operations.
You can translate long-term strategy into concrete decisions, milestones, and day-to-day execution, while remaining personally involved in both the content and practical delivery.
You have demonstrable experience in program management, governance, risk management, budgeting, forecasting, and executive reporting.
You can align senior stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams, even when interests or priorities differ and you have no formal authority.
You have strong technical affinity, experience coordinating Agile delivery across multiple teams, and practical curiosity about the use of AI in product development and program management.
Get in touch!
Interested in this assignment? Apply through our website or contact Hjalmar Wewerinke-van Marle, Recruitment Business Partner, at hjalmar.wewerinkevanmarle@nedap.com.
About Nedap
Nedap is a global leader in Digital Twin Technology, bridging the physical and digital worlds in Retail, Healthcare, Livestock, and Security. Guided by our Technology for Life philosophy, we create smart, sustainable solutions that help people and organizations thrive in a rapidly changing world. With over 1,000 colleagues, we shape the future with meaningful innovations.
