Senior Director, Program Management & Strategic Initiatives

About the role

This is a high-impact leadership role supporting the Segment President and Leadership Team in translating strategic priorities into disciplined execution across a fast-moving, high-growth business serving the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare organizations. In this role, you will bring structure, accountability, and momentum to the segment’s most important initiatives—turning ambition into measurable results.

Experience, Education, Skills, And Accomplishments

• 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
• Preferred: MBA or equivalent advanced degree

What will you be doing in this 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