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About the Role

Responsible for leading and delivering strategic business initiatives that accelerate growth and operational excellence. This role translates strategic priorities into executable programs, ensures stakeholder alignment, and drives the successful and timely delivery of high-impact initiatives across market growth, operational scaling, commercial effectiveness, and organizational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic initiatives from concept through execution, ensuring successful delivery of business outcomes aligned with growth ambitions.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable program plans, roadmaps, milestones, and deliverables.
• Define scope, objectives, success metrics, governance structures, and implementation plans.
• Lead cross-functional program teams, coordinating workstreams, aligning priorities, facilitating decision-making, and ensuring accountability.
• Drive decision-making, prioritization, and issue resolution throughout the program.
• Provide regular status updates and prepare decision-making materials for leadership teams.
• Oversee, control, and track progress, objectives, risks, dependencies, and business benefits.
• Ensure organizational readiness for segment, channel, or market launches.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on program financial performance, including investment tracking, budget utilization, business case realization, and value creation.
• Drive programs that support growth strategy and expansion ambitions.
• Lead programs for market expansion (segments and countries).
• Lead change management and stakeholder adoption activities to ensure successful implementation and sustainable business outcomes.
• Assess organizational readiness and coordinate change interventions across functions and regions.
• Coordinate go-to-market readiness activities for new offerings, markets, and business opportunities.
• Support the development and implementation of strategic partnerships and distribution channels.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning and execution required to scale business operations.
• Monitor traction of growth objectives and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Establish effective governance and ensure initiatives are executed in a disciplined and transparent manner.
• Establish governance structures and operating mechanisms that enable effective execution and accelerated decision-making.
• Define and monitor milestones and KPIs.
• Establish reporting mechanisms to ensure visibility and accountability.
• Facilitate steerco meetings and working sessions.
• Manage risks and develop mitigation strategies for complex initiatives.
• Build strong relationships across the organization and foster a culture of scaling at speed.
• Serve as an execution partner on key growth priorities and transformation initiatives.
• Influence senior leaders and functional teams to drive alignment, commitment, and delivery of strategic priorities.
• Facilitate executive workshops and alignment sessions.
• Capture lessons learned and consolidate into future ways of working.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of program management, project management, strategy execution, consulting, business operations, or related experience.
• Experience with AI or tech products is favorable.
• Experience operating in an international and fast-growing business environment.
• Experience driving business transformation, growth initiatives, or go-to-market programs.
• Proven track record leading complex cross-functional business programs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and program management tools.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
• Proficiency in German is a plus.
• Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Skills

• Program Management
• Project Management
• Strategy Execution
• Consulting
• Business Operations
• AI
• Tech Products
• International Business
• Fast-growing Business Environment
• Business Transformation
• Growth Initiatives
• Go-to-Market Programs
• Cross-functional Program Leadership
• Analytical Skills
• Problem-Solving
• Stakeholder Management
• Executive Communication
• Microsoft 365
• Program Management Tools

Location

• Europe (incidental travel)

Work Type

• Onsite (potential requirement for interviews)
• Hybrid (implied by travel)

Experience Level

• Lead
• Minimum 7 years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree required
• Master's degree in Business Administration, Management, Economics, Engineering, or a related field preferred
• Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or equivalent) is advantageous

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