Clarivate Analytics Plc

Senior Director, Program Management & Strategic Initiatives

Clarivate Analytics Plc$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of project and program management experience with proven success in complex, multi-stakeholder projects
  • Experience from top-tier management consulting or senior PM roles within large technology or life sciences organizations
  • Expertise in project planning, risk management, resource coordination, and executive reporting
  • Industry experience in life sciences, healthcare, or data and technology sectors
  • MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred

Responsibilities

  • Act as the operational bridge connecting strategic priorities to daily execution
  • Manage the program management infrastructure for critical initiatives such as product launches and M&A integration
  • Establish clear scope, success criteria, milestones, and governance to drive accountability
  • Develop robust project plans that proactively identify and resolve risks
  • Lead cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and fulfillment of commitments
  • Design operational cadence and visibility tools for informed decision-making

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with leading pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations
  • Engagement in high-impact strategic initiatives that shape the business
  • Collaboration with a talented and specialized team in life sciences and healthcare
  • Potential for professional growth in a fast-moving, high-growth environment
  • Flexibility in working hours to accommodate global collaboration
Full Job Description

Clarivate is seeking a Senior Director, Program Management & Strategic Initiatives to join our Life Sciences & Healthcare segment. This is a high-impact leadership role supporting the Segment President and Leadership Team in translating strategic priorities into disciplined execution across a fast-moving, high-growth business serving the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare organizations.

In this role, you will bring structure, accountability, and momentum to the segment’s most important initiatives—turning ambition into measurable results. Success in this role requires a seasoned program leader who can bring clarity to ambiguity, establish operating discipline at scale, and serve as a trusted partner to senior executives while advancing complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution.

About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments

  • 10+ years of hands-on project and program management experience, with a demonstrated record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives on time and on scope
  • Background in top-tier management consulting and/or senior PM roles within large, matrixed technology or life sciences organizations
  • Mastery of project planning, risk management, resource coordination, and executive-level reporting
  • Experience in life sciences, healthcare, or data and technology sectors

It would be great if you also have

  • MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred

What will you be doing in this role?

  • Serve as the operational bridge between the Segment President’s strategic priorities and the day-to-day execution required to advance them across the business.
  • Own the program management infrastructure for the segment’s most critical initiatives, including go-to-market transformation, product launches, M&A integration, organizational redesign, and high-priority special projects.
  • Define scope, success criteria, milestones, dependencies, and governance models that create clarity, accountability, and measurable progress.
  • Build and manage project plans that hold up under pressure, identifying risks early and driving resolution before issues escalate.
  • Lead cross-functional workstreams across sales, product, engineering, content, consulting, and customer experience to ensure teams deliver against commitments.
  • Design the segment’s operating cadence and create the visibility mechanisms the Segment Leadership Team needs to make fast, informed decisions.

About the Team

Clarivate’s Life Sciences & Healthcare segment partners with pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, and healthcare organizations to help accelerate innovation and improve patient outcomes. The team brings together deep domain expertise, trusted data, advanced analytics, and workflow solutions to support critical decisions across the product lifecycle—from discovery and development through commercialization and beyond.

Hours of Work

This is a full-time position that will require flexibility to collaborate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders across global time zones.

About Clarivate Analytics Plc

Clarivate Analytics is a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. Their vision is to improve the way the world creates, protects, and advances innovation. They do this by providing solutions that help customers make confident decisions and streamline their workflow. Clarivate Analytics has a portfolio of more than 8,500 customers in over 100 countries, including 90% of the world's top pharmaceutical companies, 9 of the top 10 global technology companies, and 9 of the top 10 global banks. The company was formed in 2016 when Thomson Reuters sold its intellectual property and science business to private equity firms Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia.
Learn more about Clarivate Analytics Plc
Size
9,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$106.3 million
Revenue
$1.2 billion

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