Program Director (Digital Transformation)
Job Title: Program Director – International Digital Transformation
NOTE:
Weekly visits to Manchester required
Occasional European Travel
Overview:
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Program Director to lead and oversee a complex, multi-year international digital transformation initiative. This role demands a strategic thinker with deep experience in delivering large-scale change across diverse workstreams, driving alignment, and achieving measurable impact across multiple geographies and functions.
The successful candidate will play a critical leadership role in shaping and executing transformative programs across the business, ensuring delivery excellence, stakeholder alignment, and organisational adoption.
Key Responsibilities:
- Program Leadership:
- Own the end-to-end delivery of a major international digital transformation program, including planning, resourcing, execution, governance, and continuous improvement.
- Change Management:
- Lead change management strategies that drive adoption, engagement, and cultural alignment across international teams. Proactively identify resistance and develop mitigation strategies.
- Stakeholder Engagement:
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across multiple countries. Act as a trusted advisor, ensuring clear communication and alignment of objectives. Regularly brief Country Heads and other executive leaders on program status, risks, and outcomes.
- Workstream Oversight:
- Oversee and integrate multiple workstreams across functions such as IT, operations, customer experience, and commercial. Ensure coordination, risk management, and delivery across interdependent initiatives.
- Governance & Reporting:
- Establish robust program governance, reporting frameworks, and decision-making protocols. Ensure transparency and accountability across the transformation program.
- Digital Delivery:
- Drive the successful execution of digital change initiatives, ensuring solutions deliver business value and are aligned to the wider digital strategy.
- (Salesforce project experience is advantageous.)
- Corporate Navigation:
- Effectively navigate the complexities of a global, matrixed organization. Influence without authority, challenge the status quo constructively, and clear roadblocks to progress.
- Team Leadership:
- Build and lead high-performing program teams, ensuring clarity of purpose, strong collaboration, and delivery accountability.
Required Experience & Skills:
- Proven track record of leading large, complex, and cross-functional digital transformation programs across international environments.
- Strong experience managing significant change initiatives with multiple, concurrent workstreams.
- Demonstrated success in engaging, influencing, and managing senior stakeholders across geographies.
- Exceptional communication skills – able to operate confidently at all levels of the organization and drive change with impact.
- Deep understanding of the change lifecycle and experience in embedding organizational change at scale.
- Experience working within large corporate environments and navigating matrixed organizational structures.
- Strategic thinker with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset.
- Experience with Salesforce implementations or CRM transformations is a strong advantage.
- Strong financial, resource, and risk management capabilities.
Location & Travel Requirements:
- The role is Hybrid, with 2–3 days per week in the office in Manchester
- Occasional international travel may be required.