Principal, Project Management

Job Description:

• Own the enterprise transformation roadmap, converting competing and ambiguous leadership priorities into 30-, 60-, and 100-day plans with named owners, milestones, dependencies, and explicit tradeoffs
• Establish governance with defined business problems, measured baselines, accountable owners, required decisions, risk escalation paths, and transitions into business-as-usual
• Define business value and report delivery against cost savings, protected revenue, created capacity, delivery speed, service quality, adoption, and risk reduction
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and recovery planning for programmes that are stuck, at risk, or not producing intended outcomes
• Prepare options, tradeoffs, and recommendations for executive audiences and facilitate working sessions that turn decisions into committed action
• Lead modernisation of operating models, ways of working, and tooling across geographies, including communications and enablement
• Support integrations and organisational change through Day 1/30/100, including governance, process alignment, SOPs, reporting, and handover
• Drive adoption of internal AI governance tooling and measure usage, compliance, time saved, exception rates, and practitioner feedback

Requirements:

• Significant experience leading enterprise transformation, strategic operations, or change management programmes in a large, multi-geography organisation
• Proven track record turning nebulous executive priorities into sequenced delivery plans with measurable business outcomes
• Demonstrated experience establishing governance for cross-functional portfolios and transitioning initiatives into steady-state operations
• Experience supporting post-merger integration or comparable Day 1/30/100 organisational change
• Strong background in business strategy, process improvement, and stakeholder alignment at executive level
• Exposure to AI-enabled ways of working and their governance is an advantage
• Experienced in Business Transformation
• Experienced in Change Management
• Experienced in Programme and Portfolio Governance
• Effective in Strategic Planning
• Effective in Operating Model Design
• Experienced in Stakeholder Engagement
• Experienced in Executive Communication
• Experienced in Business Acumen
• Effective in Data-Driven Decision Making
• Effective in Collaboration
• Effective in Technical Acumen
• Adaptability, Learning to Learn, Artificial Intelligence (Pearson Power Skills)

Benefits:

• Eligible to participate in an annual incentive program
• Benefits information available via the employer's benefits resource