IT Team Lead

Our partner is looking for a Commercial IT Team Lead – Data Migration based in Poland.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.