Director, Systemic Global Program Team Coaching - Global Program Management and Excellence

Job Description Key Responsibilities:

• Lead multi-session coaching engagements tailored to internal contexts, using systemic team coaching frameworks—including preparation, facilitation, and follow-up.
• Support leaders in understanding their systemic role, preparing for key team moments, and fostering a healthy team climate.
• Help teams convert enterprise strategy into actionable objectives and execution plans, driving ownership and accountability.
• Guide teams in clarifying purpose, roles, ways of working, stakeholder engagement, and performance goals.
• Leverage data and assessments to generate actionable insights that inform team development and business decisions.
• Act as a catalyst for mindset and behavioral shifts using self-awareness, presence, and relational intelligence.
• Partner with business sponsors and functional leaders to ensure coaching efforts support market demands and performance goals.
• Empower teams to internalize coaching practices and operate autonomously, reducing long-term reliance on the coach.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline is required.
• Proven experience working within the pharmaceutical industry, ideally in a drug development or R&D setting
• Familiarity with the dynamics of cross-functional teams in regulated environments, including exposure to clinical development, program execution, or lifecycle management of medicines.
• Possesses or is actively working toward advanced coaching accreditation (e.g., CPCC, ICF, PCC/MCC, ACTC), with a strong commitment to maintaining ongoing professional certification.
• Strong commitment to ethical practice, supervision, and ongoing self-development (e.g., certifications in ORSC - Organization & Relationships System Coaching, NTL-National Training Laboratory, NLP-Neurolinguistic Programming, Shadow Walk, Gestalt, Systemic Team Coaching, Immunity to Change approach, etc.), aligned with ICF standards, modeling the principle that the coach is an instrument of transformation.
• Commitment to abide by the ICF Code of Ethics and uphold the Core Values.
• Deep experience in team coaching, leadership development, and systems thinking.
• Demonstrated success in partnering with senior leaders in complex, matrixed environments to support cross-functional collaboration, while influencing organizational culture.  
• Knowledge of behavioral science and neuroscience-informed coaching.
• Proven track record in high-change, high-uncertainty environments, delivering meaningful results in a “team of teams” and multi-level organizational contexts.
• History of delivering team coaching results in a myriad of delivery methods: face-to-face, virtual and hybrid environments.  
• Ability to understand the contextual awareness of the business, without being embedded in the team or aligned to its delivery or performance.
• Fluent oral and written English

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