Global Program Director Job Description
Global program director
provides transformative leadership and program/project management for strategic projects and support the development and standardization of project management processes, tools and best practices.
Global Program Director Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Successful track record in development of channel sales in the software industry
At least 5 years experience in software channel sales
Experience in global sales and working with a global team
Previous experience with Web Content Management Systems, Big Data Analytics and Cloud Technologies would be considered an advantage
Knowledge of the WCM market is a plus
Facilitates joint planning with the client / partners in the early stages of project formation
Facilitates schedule and cost forecasting
Resolves complex issues and conflicts (including T & O organisational direction vs
Lead the transformation to a common operating model for Enterprise Services through a team of global Operations Program Managers in conjunction with strategic Corporate partners (Offerings Teams, Services Business Operations, Services Business Desk, Finance, IT)
Leader and Manager of a significant organisation
Global Program Director Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Global Program Director
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, FEMA, APICS, ACAMS, CIPM, CAPM, CSM
Education for Global Program Director
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Employers hiring for the global program director job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Science, MBA, Engineering, Management, Project Management, Medical, Education, Life Sciences, Business/Administration
Skills for Global Program Director
Desired skills for global program director include:
Risk management with the ability to identify activities
Key sales processes and tools
Core service line and strategic level overview of all service lines
Project management tools and techniques
BI systems and tools
Information Technology Information Library
Information technology concepts and practices
Microsoft Office
Project Management Methodology
Sales processes and tools
Desired experience for global program director includes:
Lead the automation agenda for order to cash capabilities, including standardized and simplified processes ahead of automation
Global strategic lead for business platforms, ensuring the architecture design is optimized for operational effectiveness and efficiency
Lead business planning for GESO including the program portfolio/change roadmap impacting contract to cash capabilities and ensure there is sufficient capacity / resourcing available to execute successfully
Lead compliance for GESO and reduce the collective risk profile across workforce, facilities, applications and processes
Ensure change is managed globally, deployed consistently and is fully embraced
Be an active leader in the development and landing of GESO’s strategic plan including ownership of Design, Build and Launch, collaborating on our operating model for the future and driving process leadership
Global Program Director Examples
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Global Program Director Job Description
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of global program director. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for global program director
- Seek input and prepare program roadmap, project, and/or implementation plans aligned with executive approval
- Build a positive momentum to drive a high rate of adoption of change across the global organization
- Coach program/project managers in their development and continuous improvements, project management best practices
- Translates the project vision into program high level scope, design and executables
- Facilitates and/or manages the gathering of business requirements for enterprise-wide BU and IT solution
- Ground all stakeholders in a centralized source of detailed and up-to-date information about the DWM initiative, and serve as primary point of contact for all detailed inquiries into program scope
- Facilitate overall, end-to-end program governance structure, ranging from the DWM Steering Committee to the governance of specific digital product offerings (e.g., Online Trading)
- Help the DWM Steering Committee, Digital Leadership team, and each DWM workstream lead prioritize efforts by providing an intuitive, fully-rationalized view of benefits and trade-offs to set and manage expectations
- Manage resource planning and optimize utilization across a variety of workstreams against tracked metrics
- Host frequent, recurring project meetings with appropriate stakeholders, leveraging transparent and timely communication to ensure tight connectivity and directional alignment across the DWM program
Qualifications for global program director
- Define global and regional group level development opportunities to be added to annual performance management system
- Define individual development opportunities to be added and managed through the annual performance management system
- Track, understand, and document the education, certifications, credentials, background, strengths, and weaknesses of each individual within the Program Management Organization, and develop a comprehensive plan to strengthen their skill sets
- Implementation of Mentoring System, with Coaches / Mentors from both within Program Management and other Functions
- Research & schedule appropriate developmental courses, and evaluate their effectiveness
- Proactively identifying key program risks and opportunities, and contributing innovative suggestions for improving DWM program and increasing its efficiency
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of global program director. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for global program director
- Identify communication needs and preferred communication channels and styles to support the development of patient programs that lead to overall patient satisfaction
- Provide competitive intelligence, benchmarking and gap analysis of competitive disease area patient support programs
- Analyze patient and/or caregiver offerings provided by patient organizations where applicable and partner with Director, Patient Organizations & Advocacy as needed to determine patient organization program usage and patient organization unmet needs
- Represent the Global Patient Solutions Insight function within the organization and ensure Global Patient Support Insight needs are incorporated in its processes
- Identify and implement creative/unique studies that provide patient and payer insights that ultimately drive the development of CNS patient support and adherence programs
- Ability to conduct secondary research, analyze and provide recommendations related to patient adherence support programs and patient behavior models
- Be the subject matter expert for CNS patient insights to aid in the development of patient support programs
- Proactively gather the right data from appropriate sources, probe/consider all of the facts, considers other perspectives, conduct root cause analysis, refer to long term plans and goals, prioritize key factors, act decisively, promptly and confidently
- Extract insights from data and be able to clearly communicate appropriate triggers and actions
- Tirelessly advocate for improvements to systems and processes that will benefit our stakeholders
Qualifications for global program director
- Early development/clinical pharmacology experience is required for early development portfolio assignments
- MD, preferably with specialisation in Oncology, Rheumatology or Dermatology
- Experience in conducting phase 3 clinical trials from design to reporting
- Experience in regulatory submissions, reviews and approvals in at least a major region
- Knowledge of advanced clinical trial design, statistics and pharmacokinetics
- Proven ability to interpret, discuss and represent efficacy and safety data
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a global program director. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for global program director
- Responsible for budget build within assigned Therapeutic Area, and resource management, identifying areas for potential cost savings
- Responsible for the oversight of risk mitigation, risk management and contingency plans at a TA level
- Facilitates annual research planning activities within assigned TA
- Contributes to the development of the life cycle and clinical development plans and establishes the operational plan for a new program or study including scenario planning, high level forecasting of timelines, assessment of program level feasibility, estimation of resources and budget based on internal/external benchmarks, and development of high level operational strategies
- Participates on in-licensing assessment as requested, providing strategic input operational elements in terms of costs, resources and timelines
- Provides program leadership to matrix teams within PDG including HQ, affiliate staff and study teams by providing program specific guidance, clinical trial management expertise, operational strategies, and direction to achieve results
- May be assigned to complex program
- Oversee execution of an effective AML Oversight Testing Program on a global basis linked to the Regulatory Compliance Management Framework and Risk Assessment
- Development, review and implementation of Enterprise AML Policies & Standards, including but not limited to Global AML Compliance Management Framework, Client Risk Management Policy, Anti Bribery Anti Corruption Policy and Sanctions Policy
- Lead and support Platform AML Officers and Regional AML Officers in the creation of Platform/Regional AML Policies in alignment with Global Policies
Qualifications for global program director
- Demonstrated technical knowledge and innovation in clinical development study designs that provide relevant evidence to decision-makers
- Bachelor’s Degree science or business-related field required
- Experience should include leading multiple cross-functional teams in different stages of the drug development process
- Demonstrated strategic problem-solving ability
- Demonstrated ability to clearly and concisely communicate with and prepare presentations for Senior Management and Executives
- Solid business background excellent understanding of the entire pharmaceutical development and commercialization lifecycle
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of global program director. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for global program director
- Provide overall leadership to Cantel program management office, program managers and R&D Franchise Manager teams and project management direction and integration in concert with the Product Development and Innovation teams
- Leads Project Management Office and has responsibility for project management and product development processes and systems
- Works with R&D Science and Engineering leaders and teams to ensure resourcing and resource prioritization for key projects
- Serve as R&D interface for Upstream Marketing and Strategic Planning leadership for portfolio and strategic planning and prioritization
- Act as primary stakeholder and leadership team contact for program and portfolio activities, leading program review sessions with R&D and other Cantel leadership to discuss prioritization, cost, schedule, and technical performance of the innovation / technology development and product development portfolio
- Enable successful functioning of geographically distributed, multi-functional program and project teams
- This position provides an overall framework to establish portfolio and program objectives, timelines, milestones, resources and budget
- Facilitates Innovation / Technology Development Roadmap working meetings, setting agenda, creating materials and action planning to ensure projects move forward in a timely manner
- Provide overall leadership to maintain effective systems to track portfolio and project status and report progress against key deliverables including the creation and maintenance of portfolio and program dashboards and monitoring tools
- Establishes milestones and monitors adherence to master plan and schedule, identifies program problems and obtains solutions, such as allocation of resources or changing contractual specifications
Qualifications for global program director
- Therapeutic area expertise is desirable
- Highly effective written and verbal communication skills in order to manage, motivate and drive decisions within cross-cultural teams that are not co-located
- Highly effective presentation skills in order create and deliver presentations with appropriate messaging and focused recommendations
- Proven skills in negotiation, influencing without authority and working diplomatically through conflict
- Sufficient knowledge of communication tools, including online meeting software and virtual meeting solutions like TelePresence, in order to select and operate the best tools that will facilitate communication across a cross-cultural team
- Sufficient technical knowledge in order to determine how project data can be organized meaningfully in order to facilitate Senior Management and Executive decision processes
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of global program director. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for global program director
- Interfaces with Strategic Planning to build and maintain strategic planning – product portfolio connections
- This position solves issues through information exchange, influence and active persuasion without direct exercise of command to gain cooperation of other parties on program execution plans
- Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement of planning processes on basis of feedback from R&D and functional partners
- Facilitates cross-business team input to develop playbook and resources that work globally, technically, and across business units
- Develops and updates ongoing communication plan to various stakeholders
- Builds organizational knowledge base and skills in product development processes and execution
- Upon program completion, take on large scale programs to drive transformation within operations (Supply Chain, Customer Service & Support, Procurement and Property) or the business (Sales, new product model)
- Lead and manage the global team as senior operational leader, driving and supporting the team in customers engagement to understand business issues
- Help drive consistently excellent customer experience and service throughout all sites
- Monitor established SLAs and KPIs
Qualifications for global program director
- Sufficient knowledge of all MS Office tools in order to be able to effectively capture and communicate project information
- May travel domestically and internationally
- Ability to work in a virtual setting/across time-zones, , making effective use
- Of communication tools (WebEx, TelePresence, telephone and video conferencing)
- Six+ years’ experience in the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry, with 4+ years in a global market research or analytics role
- Extensive experience in patient/caregiver global market research