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Lead end-to-end planning, governance, and execution for assigned Global Medical transformation initiatives, ensuring clear scope, outcomes, milestones, dependencies, decision points, ownership, resource assumptions, and critical-path management.
Drive disciplined execution through structured governance forums, executive-ready materials, decision records, action tracking, clear escalation pathways, and timely closure of issues that may affect scope, timing, cost, quality, adoption, or business value.
Partner with senior Medical leaders, workstream owners, cross functional teams including finance, HR and technology to align priorities, resolve interdependencies, and accelerate decisions across functions and geographies.
Serve as a trusted advisor to Medical Transformation Office leadership by translating complex program activity into clear insights, trade-offs, recommendations, and concise executive narratives.
Lead transformation identification, assessment, mitigation, and escalation of risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, with clear accountability and early warning indicators.
Ensure organizational change management, communications, stakeholder engagement, training, readiness, adoption, transition, and business continuity considerations are embedded in program plans and leadership updates.
Coordinate implementation across roles, processes, governance, technology, capabilities, and global or capability-center handoffs to support sustainable service delivery and minimize disruption.
Establish measurable outcomes and benefit-tracking mechanisms that connect execution to strategic, operational, financial, workforce, stakeholder, and patient-impact objectives.
Strengthen ways of working through scalable governance routines, common planning standards, portfolio dashboards, data definitions, automation, and coaching for workstream and project leads, while continuously simplifying the PMO model.
Demonstrated experience establishing or operating a transformation PMO, governing interdependent initiatives, and enabling high-quality decisions across functions and geographies.
Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs involving multiple workstreams, external partners, resource constraints, financial implications, change impacts, and business-critical outcomes.
Experience developing executive-ready governance artifacts, including integrated plans, portfolio dashboards, risk and issue logs, decision records, financial summaries, status reports, action trackers, and steering materials.
Advanced risk, issue, dependency, mitigation, escalation, and business continuity management skills.
Strong financial and business acumen, with the ability to connect execution to cost, capacity, value delivery, service outcomes, workforce implications, and strategic priorities.
Understanding of global operating models, shared services, Global Business Services or Global Capability Centers, transition management, and cross-functional service delivery strongly preferred.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, collaboration platforms, executive reporting, project tracking tools, dashboards, and portfolio management approaches; comfortable applying data and automation to improve PMO efficiency and insight.
Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline, sound judgment, and the ability to translate ambiguity into practical plans, decisions, and measurable progress.
Highly organized and outcome-oriented, with the ability to manage competing priorities, mobilize teams, resolve conflict, and maintain momentum in a fast-moving transformation environment.
Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to simplify complexity, build compelling executive narratives, and tailor messages for senior, functional, and operational audiences.
Collaborative leadership style with a bias for action, strong follow-through, and a commitment to accountability, transparency, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
