# Programme Director at DEPT®

> Hungary · Director+ · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Adept%3A8382595 (read 2026-11-12).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [DEPT®](https://alderhq.app/companies/dept)
- Location text: Budapest; DHUN
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Hungary (evidence: "Location: Budapest; DHUN")
- Posted: 2026-11-12 (0 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-12 · last verified: 2026-11-12
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dept/jobs/8382595

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted

## Description (the employer's text)

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50\|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

### JOB PURPOSE

We’re looking for a senior, highly versatile Programme Director to lead delivery across a complex, multi-channel marketing, tech, data & AI ecosystem. This person will drive alignment, shape delivery plans, and ensure we operate as one integrated team for the client.

The Programme Director will lead a global team of sr. project managers across both workstreams and business groups (BGs), and as such act as the connective tissue between multiple departments, providing senior-level orchestration, integrated programme plans, and consistent communication across all workstreams. They must be confident in navigating media in particular and connecting this to initiatives across a broad set of disciplines, ensuring seamless delivery.

This is a client-facing role, working in partnership with the Global Client Partner and Group Account Director to give the client a unified, joined-up agency experience.

- Core Focus: Owns account governance, delivery alignment, and strategic operational frameworks.
- Account Governance: Establishes and owns a clear RASCI framework across Business Unit PMs and workstream PMs.
- Delivery Oversight: Owns the overall Ways of Working, PM, and efficiency roadmap and approach across BG PMs and workstream PMs.
- Delivery and process efficiency leadership: Defines and leads the next phase of collaboration efficiency across the account, combining AI implementation, tooling adoption, and workflow optimization to improve both process and delivery in close partnership with internal and external teams.
- Team Leadership: Provides leadership across the delivery (PM) team, including dotted reporting lines, mentorship, and weekly sparring/support.
WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own and orchestrate the fully integrated programme, aligning Creative, Media, AEO, Strategy and Analytics teams around shared plans, priorities and timelines.
- Develop and maintain integrated timing plans, roadmaps, governance models and delivery frameworks across all workstreams.
- Act as the central point of escalation and alignment for both DEPT® Project Managers and client stakeholders.
- Provide senior level programme leadership, ensuring consistency, quality and cohesion across all outputs and strategic decisions.
- Facilitate collaboration between teams to ensure work connects and ladders up to the broader programme goals.
- Co-ordinating inputs from multiple specialist teams.
- Partner closely with Delivery Leads, Strategy and Media leads to maintain clarity on scope, priorities, risks and dependencies.
- Maintain strong client / agency relationship, ensuring confidence in programme direction, delivery cadence and governance.
- Monitor programme health, risks, resource planning and overall operational efficiency, working with team leads to resolve blockers quickly.
- Ensure the client experiences a one-DEPT® integrated model.
- Support commercial management (scoping, forecasting, change control) with local and central Delivery teams.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING

- Relevant experience in a senior delivery/programme role within a digital/creative/marketing agency environment.
- Demonstrable experience working across multiple disciplines - ideally a blend of Creative, Media and Web/Tech.
- Strong understanding of how strategy, creative, media, tech, AEO and analytics connect within an integrated programme.
- Proven ability to create and maintain complex multi-workstream timing plans and delivery frameworks.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to influence senior clients and internal leaders.
- Confidence operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and turning complexity into clear direction.

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