What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, Program Management & Strategic Initiatives position at Clarivate?
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
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.
At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.
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
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred
- 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.
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.
At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.