Job Description

Global Program Manager

  • Salary: £400 - £450 per day
  • REF Number: v-180529
  • Consultant: Key Accounts Team
  • Contact: 01438 870011
  • Date Published: 26.03.2026
  • Closed Date: 02.04.2026
  • Industry: Pharmaceutical
  • Location: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England
  • Functional Expertise: Biometrics & Data Management, Clinical Operations/Development

Talentmark is recruiting for a Global Program Manager to join a company in the pharmaceutical industry on a contract basis for 12 months.

Salary:

Paying from £400-£450 per day Ltd co (outside IR35)

Global Program Manager role:

  • Be a core member of molecule/disease area teams and drive drug or disease area development programs.

  • Provide strategic program management to project teams, framing and assessing options, and identifying inflection points and critical factors for project delivery, decision-making and governance.
  • Build and maintain highly functioning project teams by observing team dynamics, building trust, addressing issues, and encouraging open dialogues.
  • Keep teams on track to deliver short-, mid-, and long-term activities to achieve team objectives and drive key program/project meetings & workshops, team communication, and documentation.
  • Contribute to portfolio management by reporting and proactively maintaining key project information to support portfolio overview and decisions.
  • Maintain program and project management guidelines, standards, and tools as required.
Your Background:

  • Experience in leading drug development programs.
  • Exposure to program management, project management, change management, business management methodologies, and approaches.
  • Experience in global programs and projects, particularly related to drug development.
  • Evidence of Strategic thinking and approach, able to set clear objectives and a roadmap for the team.
Company:

Our client is one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing, and providing over 160 different medicines, vaccines, and consumer healthcare products to help improve the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year.

Location:

This role is based at our client's site in Welwyn Garden City, with hybrid working, 2 days in the office.

Apply:

For more information, or to apply for this Global Program Manager please contact the Key Accounts Team on 01438 870011 or email pharmacontracts@ckagroup.co.uk. Please quote reference 180 529.

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK.

Please note:

This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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