Director, Strategic Planning & Program Controls Delivery

Ll Oefentherapie; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Ll Oefentherapie seeks a highly driven program leader to establish and execute strategy across a fast-paced, cross-functional organization. You will bring structure, prioritize initiatives, and ensure delivery commitments are met through disciplined planning and governance.

The role blends strategic thinking with hands-on process improvement, requiring influence across stakeholders, clear communication with senior leadership, and a bias for actionable solutions that drive adoption and measurable

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of complex, multi-stakeholder programs with clear scope, milestones, accountabilities, dependencies, risks, and decision paths.
• Build and improve operating rhythms, planning processes, governance structures, and reporting to reduce overhead and speed execution.
• Identify process gaps, bottlenecks, and complexity; develop practical, scalable solutions and roll them out across teams.
• Ensure new processes are communicated, implemented, adopted, measured, and refined over time.
• Drive cross-functional alignment among technical, operational, commercial, and leadership stakeholders in a fast-changing environment.
• Proactively surface risks and delivery barriers; facilitate resolution and escape decisions when appropriate.
• Translate technical and business information into concise updates for senior leadership and executives.
• Develop portfolio views of initiatives including prioritization, resources, schedules, risks, costs, and progress.
• Establish a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement; mentor teams as needed.
• Partner with project owners and leaders to build credibility through accurate forecasting and clear expectations.

Job description

Position Summary

We are seekinga highly driven, proactive leader toestablishand lead strategic planning, program delivery, and process excellence across a fast-paced, highly cross-functional organization. This leader will bring structure, clarity, and disciplined execution to complex initiatives, ensuring teams are aligned on priorities, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery commitments.

The ideal candidate combines the strategic mindset of a program leader with the practical discipline of a process improvement expert. They are comfortable operating through influence across diverse stakeholders, navigating ambiguity, resolving barriers, and turning complex work into clear, executable plans. This role requires a hands-on leader who does not wait for problems to be assigned, but instead identifiesopportunities, develops solutions, and drives implementation through to sustained adoption.

While deep subject-matter expertisein data center development is notrequiredon day one, this individual must be technically curious, eager to learn, and energized by the opportunity to understand the complexity of infrastructure and data center build programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of complex, multi-stakeholder programs, ensuring clear scope, priorities, milestones, accountabilities, dependencies, risks, and decision paths.

• Build and continuously improve operating rhythms, planning processes, governance structures, and reporting mechanisms that reduce overhead and improve execution speed, predictability, and transparency.

• Identify process gaps, bottlenecks, and unnecessary complexity; develop practical, scalable solutions and lead their rollout across teams.

• Ensure new processes are not only designed well, but communicated, implemented, adopted, measured, and refined over time.

• Drive cross-functional alignment among technical, operational, commercial, and leadership stakeholders in a rapidly changing environment.

• Proactively surface risks, constraints, resource conflicts, and delivery barriers; facilitateresolution and escape decisions whenappropriate.

• Translate complex technical and business information into clear, concise updates and recommendations for senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

• Develop portfolio-level views of initiatives, including prioritization, resource needs, schedules, risks, costs, progress, and tradeoffs.

• Establish a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and solution-oriented problem solving.

• Mentor, coach, and develop team members, including program managers, project managers, planners, and technical contributors as applicable.

• Partner with project owners, sponsors, and leaders to build credibility through accurateforecasting, transparent communication, and clearly defined expectations.

• Build working knowledge of the technical, operational, and commercial factors that shape data center build programs and use that knowledge to improve planning and delivery outcomes.