Dir. , Technical Project Management

Job Description

The Director Technical Project Management Enterprise Programs & Market Activation leads the orchestration and activation of divisional enterprise & global strategic initiatives. The role ensures coordinated program governance market readiness and measurable adoption outcomes are realised while connecting product and value team priorities technology delivery and market activation activities.

This role translates highly strategic complex intiatives which impact multiple teams into executable launch and operational plans managing cross-enterprise dependencies and ensuring markets are prepared to adopt and realize value from strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as primary technical delivery lead and for program project activation and commercial stakeholders for prioritised projects and intiatives.

• Develop and execute market-readiness and activation strategies including training enablement localized launch plans and go-to-market coordination.

• Establish and run program governance steering committees and decision forums with key stakeholders.

• Maintain project roadmaps dependency matrices integration plans milestone tracking and go/nogo criteria.

• Translate technical integration risks and vendor dependencies into business-facing decisions and mitigation plans.

• Coordinate deployment readiness: cutover/rollback planning operational runbooks and post-launch validation focused on market impacts.

• Drive change management and adoption: communications stakeholder engagement training curricula and measurement of adoption KPIs.

• Work with Portfolio and Product teams to prioritize initiatives based on strategic value market readiness and resource capacity.

• Manage strategic partners and vendor deliverables across multiple markets; ensure SLAs and integration timelines are met.

• Lead mentor and manage 12 project managers to embed consistent practices and drive predictability.

• Report program status risks and value realization to senior leadership and adjust plans based on outcomes.

Education Requirement:

• Bachelors degree (Business Administration Project/Program Management IT Engineering or similar)

• Minimum 10 years of experience in program or portfolio management delivering global cross-functional initiatives including market activation or commercial launches.

• Proven experience influencing senior stakeholders running governance forums and coordinating across markets and vendors.

• Technical fluency (software delivery lifecycle APIs/integration concepts cloud concepts release orchestration) sufficient to coordinate technical teams and surface integration risks.

• PMP PRINCE2 Agile certification or SFIA-aligned capability preferred

Core Competencies

• Executive stakeholder influence and governance

• Program orchestration and multi-workstream dependency management

• Market readiness planning and adoption/change management

• Technical integration risk identification and mitigation

• Vendor and partner management across global markets

• Metrics-driven value realization and benefits tracking

• Leadership and capability building for junior team members

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