Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Digital, or related field; 8+ years in global project/program management, preferably in shared services and transformation settings.
Proven track record delivering complex, high-risk, multi-workstream projects with strategic decision-making.
Experience with digital content, omnichannel, or AI-enabled service creation/optimization pilots.
Excellent stakeholder management, business acumen, and strategic thinking; ability to operate with independence in regulated environments.
Requirements:
Project Management Leadership: drive planning, coordination, and execution of multiple concurrent transformation pilot projects, including scheduling, resource allocation, and deliverable tracking.
Stakeholder Engagement and Management: build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure project visibility and alignment.
Governance, Quality Assurance, and Risk Management: set and continuously improve project governance, QA, compliance standards, and proactively manage risks and issues with program and finance stakeholders.
Budget, Resource Management, and Change Adoption Enablement: oversee project budget and resources, and drive readiness criteria, training, and change adoption activities for AI-enabled digital transformation.
Job description
Key Responsibilities:
Project Management Leadership: Drive successful planning, coordination, and execution of multiple, concurrent transformation pilot projects, including scheduling, resource allocation, and deliverable tracking
Stakeholder Engagement and Management: Build and maintain effective relationships with the client’s internal and external contacts (anticipated: Workstream Leads, IT and Commercial Digital Health Leads, Executive business sponsors, Excellence center leads, Studio team members, Leadership, Steering Committees, vendors such as Adobe/Jasper, change leads) to ensure project visibility and alignment.
Governance & Quality Assurance: Set, maintain, and continuously improve project governance, quality assurance, and compliance standards in accordance with our client’s regulated industry guidelines.
Readiness Criteria: Identify and agree transition readiness criteria for all pilot workstreams, including skills mapping, RACI establishment, and training.
Strategic Risk & Issue Management: Proactively manage risks-especially around technical disruption, vendor adoption, data quality, operational complexity-and escalate/resolve issues in partnership with program and finance stakeholders.
Budget & Resource Management: Oversee project budget, resource allocation, and escalation of financial impacts, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget.
Change & Adoption Enablement: Work alongside the Change workstream to plan, develop, and drive training, communications, and upskilling activities required for AI adoption and digital transformation.
Continuous Improvement: Iterate project plans to reflect evolving requirements, new discovery findings, or pilot outcomes; ensure action logs, risk/issue registries, and milestones are accurate and up to date.
Qualifications, Skills and Background:
Bachelor's Degree: Business, Accounting, Finance, Digital, or related field; with 8+ years in global project/program management, preferably within shared service and transformation settings
Strong track record delivering complex, high-risk, multi-workstream projects and making strategic decisions.
Prior experience with digital content, omnichannel, or AI-enabled service creation/optimization pilots.
Excellent business acumen, stakeholder management, and strategic thinking.
Independence and Problem-Solving Ability: Proven ability to operate with minimal supervision and build solutions to ambiguous or unprecedented challenges.
Budget/Resource Management: Experience with financial oversight for large programs.
Quality/Compliance Mindset: Demonstrated adherence to best practices and guidelines in regulated environments.
Excellent internal and external stakeholder management skills (ranging from brilliant executors to senior executive sponsors), anticipated key relationships: Internal (Pharmaceutical client), Steering Committees, Business Managers / Leaders, Project/Programme Managers, Change Lead, Digital/IT Teams, Third Party Suppliers (Adobe, Jasper, etc.), and other consultancy partners