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Senior Director, Program Management & Strategic Initiatives

Clarivate · Kansas City, MO · 4 wk ago
Information TechnologyFull-time

About the role

Serve as the operational bridge between the Segment President’s strategic priorities and the day-to-day execution required to advance them across the business.

Own the program management infrastructure for the segment’s most critical initiatives, including go-to-market transformation, product launches, M&A integration, organizational redesign, and high-priority special projects.

Define scope, success criteria, milestones, dependencies, and governance models that create clarity, accountability, and measurable progress.

Build and manage project plans that hold up under pressure, identifying risks early and driving resolution before issues escalate.

Lead cross-functional workstreams across sales, product, engineering, content, consulting, and customer experience to ensure teams deliver against commitments.

Design the segment’s operating cadence and create the visibility mechanisms the Segment Leadership Team needs to make fast, informed decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the operational bridge between the Segment President’s strategic priorities and the day-to-day execution required to advance them across the business.
  • Own the program management infrastructure for the segment’s most critical initiatives, including go-to-market transformation, product launches, M&A integration, organizational redesign, and high-priority special projects.
  • Define scope, success criteria, milestones, dependencies, and governance models that create clarity, accountability, and measurable progress.
  • Build and manage project plans that hold up under pressure, identifying risks early and driving resolution before issues escalate.
  • Lead cross-functional workstreams across sales, product, engineering, content, consulting, and customer experience to ensure teams deliver against commitments.
  • Design the segment’s operating cadence and create the visibility mechanisms the Segment Leadership Team needs to make fast, informed decisions.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on project and program management experience, with a demonstrated record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives on time and on scope.
  • Background in top-tier management consulting and/or senior PM roles within large, matrixed technology or life sciences organizations.
  • Mastery of project planning, risk management, resource coordination, and executive-level reporting.
  • Experience in life sciences, healthcare, or data and technology sectors.

Qualifications

  • Master's degree or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

Skills

  • Seasoned program leader who can bring clarity to ambiguity, establish operating discipline at scale, and serve as a trusted partner to senior executives while advancing complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution.

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