This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Commercial IT Team Lead – Data Migration based in Saudi Arabia.
As Commercial IT Team Lead, you will lead a key delivery team within a large-scale data migration and digital transformation programme.
You will own the team’s scope, priorities, resources, timelines, and performance, ensuring delivery stays aligned with programme objectives.
The role combines IT leadership, project governance, commercial awareness, and senior stakeholder management.
You will work across business, IT, data, and other project functions to coordinate complex dependencies and resolve delivery challenges.
Your leadership will help ensure critical outputs are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
You will operate in an international, remote environment where clear communication, accountability, and proactive problem-solving are essential.
This is a strong opportunity for an experienced IT delivery leader seeking a high-impact role within a complex transformation programme.
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.
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