Learning Transformation Portfolio Delivery Lead (18 months FTC)

Learning Transformation Portfolio Delivery Lead (18 months FTC) Macclesfield, United Kingdom  (3 days on site per week)   About AstraZeneca At AstraZeneca, we’re not afraid to do things differently. We’re building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering innovative methods and bringing unexpected teams together.   Lead the delivery of a global enterprise learning transformation portfolio, with the replacement of the global Learning Management System as the immediate and primary licence-to-operate programme. Alongside the LMS, you will oversee the delivery of AI-enabled Learning Content Services and the refresh of the wider learning technology ecosystem, ensuring the programmes operate as an integrated portfolio and deliver measurable, sustainable enterprise outcomes. Reporting to the Global Head of Enterprise Learning Services and Solutions, you will lead the portfolio delivery function, integrating plans, resources, investment, risks, dependencies, decisions and benefits. You will direct Programme Managers and the PMO, establish clear delivery standards and priorities, and provide the assurance and executive insight required to keep this complex transformation focused and on course.   You will create an environment where governance enables timely decisions, risks surface early and interdependent programmes delivery at a global scale, shaping how learning services and technology evolve across the enterprise.   Key Responsibilities: • Portfolio strategy, integration and planning: Define and lead the portfolio’s end-to-end delivery approach, integrated master plan, operating model, decision rights and pathways. Translate strategic priorities into sequenced programme outcomes, with the global LMS replacement as the immediate delivery priority, while maintaining momentum across Learning Content Services and the learning ecosystem refresh. Direct Programme Managers and the PMO, align resources and suppliers, and maintain robust baselines, and change control. • Global LMS delivery, compliance and operational readiness: Hold portfolio-level accountability for orchestrating and assuring the successful delivery of the global LMS replacement as a critical licence-to-operate programme. Direct integrated delivery across business, IT, Quality, data, suppliers, change and operations, ensuring effective control of validation, migration, deployment and operational readiness. Safeguard compliance, data integrity and service continuity, and enable a controlled transition to live operation and sustained adoption. • Content Services and learning ecosystem transformation: Lead and assure the delivery of AI-enabled Learning Content Services and the refresh of the wider learning technology ecosystem. Ensure each programme has clear outcomes, accountable leadership, delivery plans and controls, and that technology, content, data, process and service-design decisions remain aligned across the portfolio. • Governance, assurance and systemic risk: Establish and implement proportionate governance, delivery controls, stage gates and escalation thresholds across the portfolio. Oversee risks, issues and cross-programme dependencies' end to end, resolving recurring concerns at source and raising material decisions and trade-offs with evidence-based recommendations. • Financial, resource and commercial control: Lead all aspects of portfolio budgets, forecasts, capacity and supplier performance, ensuring investment and resources remain aligned to delivery priorities. Partner with Finance, Procurement and People teams to handle constraints and variances and recommend timely trade-offs across programmes. • Performance, executive insight and value: Lead t