Programme Director – PPM Data Transformation

Role Summary

The Programme Director, PPM Data Transformation will provide strategic leadership to a multi-year data transformation programme within Global Portfolio & Project Management (GPPM). You will lead end-to-end delivery, establish governance, and foster an organizational culture that supports an integrated, enterprise-wide PPM data platform and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Programme leadership: Lead the scoping, planning, and execution of the PPM Data Transformation. Track benefits and value realization. Own the roadmap, milestones, risks, dependencies, and integrated plans
• Programme Governance and PMO maturity: Establish best practice programme governance, status reporting cadences, risk and issue management, and programme documentation standards. Ensure decisions, protocols, and controls are clear and traceable.
• Stakeholder engagement: Partner across GPPM, R&D, Finance, IT and external vendors; align with executive sponsors and governance forums to enable adoption, unblock decisions and achieve the goal of an integrated platform at the enterprise level.
• Change, communications and training: Lead change management planning and execution. Communicate with key user groups and develop role-based training strategies. Coach SMEs and leaders to embed a data-driven culture.
• Performance management: Define and track KPIs/OKRs. Manage budget and resources. Provide transparent progress, risk, and mitigation reporting to senior leadership. Ensure incremental value delivery through phased releases.
• External insights: Bring in external best practices, emerging technologies and partner capabilities to simplify processes and improve decision and delivery velocity.
• Cross PPM Platform integration: surface and understand dependencies across the PPM Platform, including enterprise-driven initiatives that shape PPM data (e.g. ABACUS & AXIAL) and the evolving strategic roadmap for key GPPM capabilities (Project Management, Capacity Management, Governance & P2P, Portfolio Analytics).

Qualifications

• Required: Extensive track record (10+ years) leading complex, cross-functional transformation programmes in data strategy, portfolio/project management, or digital change environments.
• Required: Proven success driving cross-functional teams in the implementation of integrated data platforms, governance frameworks and digital workflow solutions.
• Required: Executive influence and communication skills; able to cut through complexity and target clear messages to senior leaders and governance forums.
• Required: Evidence of successfully delivering incremental programme value, building agile teams, and embedding organizational culture change.
• Required: Demonstrated uplift of PMO maturity and continuous improvement, with strong risk management and delivery excellence.
• Required: Data and analytics literacy, including modern data management methodologies, AI/ML, insight generation and technology-enabled change.
• Required: Bachelor‚Äôs / Master‚Äôs in business, technology or related discipline.
• Required: Strong network to external thought leadership in PMO, data and digital transformation.
• Preferred: Background / experience in life sciences.
• Preferred: Understanding of the pharmaceutical business (including R&D, Operations, Commercial, Finance, etc).
• Preferred: Vendor selection and management in partnership with Procurement/IT.
• Preferred: PMP/PgMP or equivalent.

Education

• Bachelor‚Äôs or Master‚Äôs in business, technology or related discipline.