Ensure overall program success and the effective use of resources and within constrains.

• Establish governance structure for the program with right customer representation for responsible Domain/functions. Track, report, and deliver against agreed success factors and KPIs for various customers for responsible Domain/functions.
• Accountable to Global Business Units for end-to-end Program delivery in the given sub-domain
• Drive programs that define & implement technology delivery strategy for business systems, platforms, and processes in partnership with senior business collaborators & Strategic Business Partners.
• Actively participate in demand analysis, solution proposal/evaluation, and funding estimates for related projects/initiatives
• Handle senior business partners and collaboratively steer for consensus in making difficult & sophisticated decisions
• Handle interdependencies across products, looking for synergies and conflicts.
• Partner with relevant Technology Service/Solutions Delivery teams to ensure that the product and platform strategy balances the needs of Key Markets, need for reuse across other priority markets and cost optimally scale at speed to remaining midsize/small markets
• Advocate for the business and customer strategy within the IT organization to steer Platform and Product investments, prioritization and decision-making.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a computer science, engineering or information technology discipline.

Experience

• 15+ years’ experience in handling USD 50 Million+ programs involving senior business collaborators in the Pharma/Life science domain and experience as a lead Project manager for sophisticated programs
• Experience in multi-vendor delivery model and collaboration across boundaries. Ability to work and lead (a multi-functional team) in a matrix environment.
• People Leadership, Risk management & Conflict resolution and good understanding of agile methodology & product implementation experience
• Provide leadership and decision-making support by establishing program & project governance
• Analytical Thinking and Financial Modelling. Work closely with other Regulatory Affairs sub-domains (towers) and interfacing domains (like Clinical, TRD etc.) to establish periodic assessments to identify areas of collaboration and overlap to ensure effective functional & technical solutions are prioritised and implemented.
• Industry/ Business Exposure, Strategy Development, Program Management, People Leadership, Interactions with senior management. Ability to Develop trust-based relationships with key regional customers, Well-developed record of successful relationship management
• Leverage technology, Knowledge of new, emerging and latest market trends for business and customer needs and Professional certifications such as PgMP/MSP, PMP/PRNCE2, Agile/SAFe etc. would be an added advantage.
• Good to have skills: Pharma Regulatory or related business domains and/or Veeva platform implementation in any of the pharma sub-domains