Commercial IT Team Lead – Data Migration

Accountabilities

• • Lead and manage the Commercial IT team throughout the data migration and digital transformation programme.
  • Define the team’s scope, objectives, responsibilities, and key deliverables in alignment with overall programme goals.
  • Translate programme milestones into clear team-level deadlines, delivery plans, and actionable priorities.
  • Assign, coordinate, and track work across team members while managing capacity, priorities, and resource allocation.
  • Monitor delivery progress and ensure outputs remain aligned with agreed scope, timelines, budget, and quality expectations.
  • Identify and secure the tools, resources, skills, and capabilities required for successful team delivery.
  • Manage project costs and oversee the team budget allocated by Programme Management.
  • Support the development and monitoring of KPIs to measure delivery progress, team performance, and overall project success.
  • Act as a key interface between senior management and cross-functional teams involved in programme execution.
  • Coordinate effectively with business, IT, data, and other project stakeholders to maintain alignment and momentum.
  • Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and potential delivery blockers.
  • Provide clear and regular progress updates, reporting, and escalation to senior stakeholders.
  • Escalate critical issues appropriately and drive timely resolution through the relevant teams.
  • Foster effective communication, collaboration, and coordination across all participating project teams.

  Requirements

  • Proven experience as an IT Team Lead, IT Delivery Lead, IT Project Lead, Commercial IT Lead, or in a comparable leadership position.
  • Strong experience leading and coordinating IT teams within complex transformation or enterprise-scale programmes.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, milestones, resources, deliverables, and competing priorities.
  • Strong project planning, delivery management, and organizational skills.
  • Experience managing budgets, project costs, team capacity, and resource allocation.
  • Solid understanding of project governance, KPIs, risk management, issue management, and dependency tracking.
  • Strong stakeholder management capabilities, including experience working directly with senior and executive-level management.
  • Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and maintain alignment across business, IT, data, and other functions.
  • Experience assigning, monitoring, and tracking work across a delivery team.
  • Strong decision-making, analytical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting progress and issues to senior stakeholders.
  • Ability to work independently and effectively within a remote, international environment.
  • Comfortable collaborating across CET time zones.
  • Experience with data migration programmes is highly desirable.
  • Experience delivering large-scale digital transformation initiatives is an advantage.
  • Familiarity with SAP / S/4HANA transformation programmes is a plus.
  • Experience in Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated environments is desirable.
  • Experience managing global or multi-country project teams is beneficial.
  • Knowledge of project delivery phases including planning, build, testing, cutover, and go-live is an advantage.

  Benefits

  • Fully remote position.
  • Opportunity to lead a Commercial IT team within a large-scale data migration and digital transformation programme.
  • High level of ownership across delivery scope, resources, timelines, budget, and performance.
  • Exposure to senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams within an international environment.
  • Opportunity to contribute to complex transformation initiatives involving data, technology, and business operations.
  • International and collaborative working environment.
  • Contract opportunity with scope to leverage and expand IT leadership and programme delivery expertise.
  • Experience across major transformation phases, from planning through testing, cutover, and go-live.