Learning Transformation Portfolio Delivery Lead (18 months FTC)

Learning Transformation Portfolio Delivery Lead (18 months FTC)

Macclesfield United Kingdom (3 days on site per week)

About AstraZeneca

At AstraZeneca were not afraid to do things differently. Were building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means were opening new ways to work pioneering innovative methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

Lead the delivery of a global enterprise learning transformation portfolio with the replacement of the global Learning Management System as the immediate and primary licence-to-operate programme. Alongside the LMS you will oversee the delivery of AI-enabled Learning Content Services and the refresh of the wider learning technology ecosystem ensuring the programmes operate as an integrated portfolio and deliver measurable sustainable enterprise outcomes.

Reporting to the Global Head of Enterprise Learning Services and Solutions you will lead the portfolio delivery function integrating plans resources investment risks dependencies decisions and benefits. You will direct Programme Managers and the PMO establish clear delivery standards and priorities and provide the assurance and executive insight required to keep this complex transformation focused and on course.

You will create an environment where governance enables timely decisions risks surface early and interdependent programmes delivery at a global scale shaping how learning services and technology evolve across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Portfolio strategy integration and planning: Define and lead the portfolios end-to-end delivery approach integrated master plan operating model decision rights and pathways. Translate strategic priorities into sequenced programme outcomes with the global LMS replacement as the immediate delivery priority while maintaining momentum across Learning Content Services and the learning ecosystem refresh. Direct Programme Managers and the PMO align resources and suppliers and maintain robust baselines and change control.
• Global LMS delivery compliance and operational readiness: Hold portfolio-level accountability for orchestrating and assuring the successful delivery of the global LMS replacement as a critical licence-to-operate programme. Direct integrated delivery across business IT Quality data suppliers change and operations ensuring effective control of validation migration deployment and operational readiness. Safeguard compliance data integrity and service continuity and enable a controlled transition to live operation and sustained adoption.
• Content Services and learning ecosystem transformation: Lead and assure the delivery of AI-enabled Learning Content Services and the refresh of the wider learning technology ecosystem. Ensure each programme has clear outcomes accountable leadership delivery plans and controls and that technology content data process and service-design decisions remain aligned across the portfolio.
• Governance assurance and systemic risk: Establish and implement proportionate governance delivery controls stage gates and escalation thresholds across the portfolio. Oversee risks issues and cross-programme dependencies end to end resolving recurring concerns at source and raising material decisions and trade-offs with evidence-based recommendations.
• Financial resource and commercial control: Lead all aspects of portfolio budgets forecasts capacity and supplier performance ensuring investment and resources remain aligned to delivery priorities. Partner with Finance Procurement and People teams to handle constraints and variances and recommend timely trade-offs across programmes.
• Performance executive insight and value: Lead the portfolio performance and benefits framework providing a forward-looking view of delivery readiness compliance adoption and value. Translate complexity into clear choices for the Global Head of Enterprise Learning Services and Solutions and governance forums and provide service owners with the evidence required for transition operational acceptance and benefits realisation.
• Organisational leadership and delivery capability: Build a high-performing Programme Management and PMO community with clear accountability and consistently applied delivery standards. Strengthen capability through development organisational design and resourcing while ensuring effective succession knowledge transfer and delivery continuity.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent relevant professional experience in programme management project management business technology learning HR organizational change or a related field. A postgraduate qualification or recognised programme or portfolio management certification is desirable.
• Senior programme or portfolio leadership experience delivering complex global technology-enabled transformation.
• Hands on experience leading the implementation or replacement of a global LMS HR platform or comparable business-critical enterprise system including delivery in a regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of the delivery controls required for validation data migration compliance operational readiness and transition of a business-critical global platform.
• Ability to establish integrated portfolio plans operating models governance performance management and execution at enterprise scale.
• Experience leading a complex multi-year transformation portfolio from strategy through to delivery including defining the operating model integrated master plan decision rights and governance.
• Experience leading Programme Managers and PMO professionals building organisational capability and delivering outcomes through others.
• Experience integrating delivery across business technology data Quality suppliers change and operations.
• Executive presence and commercial judgement with the ability to present evidence-based recommendations and make informed trade-offs.

In Office Requirement:

When we put unexpected teams in the same room we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing -person working gives us the platform we need to connect work at pace and challenge perceptions. Thats why we work on average a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesnt mean were not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Competitive salary and benefits package on offer!

The successful candidate will have access to a flexible employee benefits fund including holiday purchase and flexible time off pension contributions Share Save Plans A performance recognition scheme and a competitive generous remuneration package!

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