Senior Director, Planning Transformation & Portfolio Excellence

pofft Technology Inc.; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Excelya is seeking a Senior Director for Planning Transformation and Portfolio Excellence to lead the design and deployment of planning capabilities across a major enterprise transformation in Paris, France.

You will run cross-functional workshops, shape scalable planning frameworks, and ensure alignment between governance, portfolio management, and business functions. The role emphasizes senior stakeholder engagement and mentoring planning resources.

Qualifications

• Experience leading planning transformation initiatives in pharma/biotech or healthcare.
• Strong ability to design scalable planning frameworks and operating models.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple planning transformation workstreams and facilitate strategic planning workshops.
• Design and implement functional planning frameworks, templates, governance models, and milestone structures.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and decision-making across business functions.
• Develop cross-functional dependency maps and planning standards to support scalable execution.
• Translate workshop outcomes into implementation-ready deliverables for planning platform deployment.
• Partner with business and technical teams to ensure planning solutions are practical, scalable, and governance-aligned.
• Support pilot deployments and adoption activities for new planning processes and tools.
• Advise senior leadership on planning maturity, portfolio governance, and operating model evolution.
• Standardize planning practices across functions and contribute to broader transformation initiatives.
• Mentor project management and planning resources involved in the program.

Skills

Planning transformation

Portfolio governance

Work Breakdown Structures

Milestone frameworks

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Strategic workshops

Leadership

Communication skills

Tools

OnePlan

Planisware

Planview

Clarity

Microsoft Project

Job description

Excelya is seeking a Senior Director for Planning Transformation and Portfolio Excellence to lead the design and deployment of planning capabilities across a major enterprise transformation in Paris, France.

You will run cross-functional workshops, shape scalable planning frameworks, and ensure alignment between governance, portfolio management, and business functions. The role emphasizes senior stakeholder engagement and mentoring planning resources.