Dir Technical Project Management

Job Description

The Director, Technical Project Management – Enterprise Programs & Market Activation leads the orchestration and activation of divisional, enterprise, and 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 initiatives that impact multiple teams into executable launch and operational plans. It manages cross‑enterprise dependencies and ensures markets are prepared to adopt and realize value from strategic initiatives.

• Serve as the primary technical delivery lead for program, project, activation, and commercial stakeholders for prioritised projects and initiatives.
• 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/no‑go 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 prioritise 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 1‑2 project managers to embed consistent practices and drive predictability.
• Report program status, risks, and value realisation to senior leadership and adjust plans based on outcomes.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project/Program Management, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• 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.

• 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 realisation and benefits tracking
• Leadership and capability building for junior team members

Measurement Analysis, Portfolio, Programme, and Project Support, Program Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Model.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

The salary range for this role is $ – $. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long‑term incentive, if applicable. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, healthcare and other insurance benefits for employee and family, retirement benefits (401(k)), paid holidays, vacation, compassionate and sick days.