IT&D Senior Program Manager, PLM

We are looking for an experienced IT & Digital Senior Program Manager - PLM to lead the delivery of our end-to-end Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) transformation.

In this role, you will oversee a complex portfolio of programmes spanning both legacy and future PLM landscapes, ensuring seamless delivery, strong governance, and clear visibility of progress and value. Working closely with senior IT&D and business leaders, you will play a critical role in evolving PLM into a true product‑led capability, enabling innovation, compliance, and operational excellence across the organisation.

• Lead the end‑to‑end PLM programme, ensuring delivery of projects and work streams to agreed scope, timelines, and budgets, and establish and maintain robust programme governance frameworks, including steering committees and executive reporting.
• Manage programme financials, ensuring effective planning, tracking, and value realisation.
• Develop and maintain integrated programme and workstream plans, ensuring alignment across delivery teams.
• Define and track KPIs and OKRs to measure delivery performance and business value, and identify and manage cross‑functional dependencies across systems, platforms, and business processes.
• Ensure compliance with IT&D quality standards and regulatory requirements (GxP) throughout delivery.
• Partner with business and IT leadership to align delivery with strategic roadmaps and priorities, and manage relationships with executive sponsors and external delivery partners, ensuring successful outcomes.
• Lead and support delivery teams, providing guidance, direction, and oversight across programme execution.

• Extensive experience leading large‑scale, complex digital transformation programmes, ideally within PLM or related domains.
• Strong track record of operating in regulated environments (e.g., GxP) and ensuring compliant delivery.
• Proven ability to manage programme governance, financials, risks, and dependencies across global, matrixed organisations.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior executives and cross‑functional teams.
• Experience working with external delivery partners and managing complex vendor relationships.

• Deep understanding of programme and product management methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.
• Strong leadership capability, with the ability to guide teams and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Familiarity with PLM processes, product lifecycle environments, or FMCG/healthcare sectors is highly desirable.
• Relevant qualifications such as PMP, Scrum Master, or equivalent programme management certifications preferred.