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Senior Transformation PMO / Programme Delivery Lead Freelance | Remote (occasional travel to Europe) | April 2026 | 6-month initial engagement
Our client is a strategic advisory practice working at the intersection of AI, content supply chains, and marketing transformation. Retained by some of the world's largest FMCG and consumer brands, they help organisations move from people-led content models to technology-led ones at genuine enterprise scale.
They are now engaged in a significant content operating model transformation for a major global FMCG brand. This is a high-profile, high-complexity engagement spanning multiple markets, functions, and a deeply political stakeholder landscape involving brand teams, agency partners, and senior leadership. They need a senior programme delivery lead to partner directly with the principal consultant and own enterprise transformation end to end.
The Opportunity
This role is about redesigning how a global business makes content: restructuring agency relationships, reshaping operating models across brands and markets, and driving the kind of organisational change that large enterprises resist. It is not a technology implementation. It is not a coordination role.
You will build the governance infrastructure from scratch, drive cross-functional accountability, and keep momentum across a complex, sometimes contested, stakeholder landscape. You will work alongside an experienced strategic adviser who brings the content, AI, and agency ecosystem expertise. Your job is to ensure that expertise lands as a structured, accountable, moving programme rather than a series of well-received workshops.
The sweet spot is someone who has crossed between consulting and industry, understands how large organisations resist change, and has the seniority and gravitas to push through it.
What We Are Looking For
You will likely have come from one of the following backgrounds:
* Programme director or head of transformation at a leading management consultancy
* Senior transformation leader within a major global agency holding company
* Brand-side transformation lead at a global FMCG or consumer business of comparable scale
And your experience will include:
* Owning and driving enterprise operating model transformations end to end, not just managing delivery
* Redesigning agency or supplier ecosystems and navigating the commercial and political dynamics that come with that
* Building programme governance from scratch: roadmaps, workstream design, dependency mapping, decision cadences, risk logs, and executive reporting
* Operating at C-suite and board level with the authority to challenge decisions and drive alignment
* A genuine understanding of content, marketing operations, or media production environments. You do not need to be a technologist, but you need to understand the domain
* A track record at organisations of significant global scale and complexity, ideally within FMCG, consumer goods, or marketing services
This is not the right role for technology delivery leaders, CRM or personalisation specialists, or account management profiles moving into transformation. The programme is about organisational change, not system implementation.
Engagement Details
* Type: Freelance / contract
* Start: April 2026
* Commitment: Approximately 3 to 4 days per week initially
* Location: Predominantly remote, with occasional travel to Hamburg
* Initial term: 6 months, with strong potential for extension
* Day rate: Open to discussion. Competitive for the right candidate
If you have the experience, the seniority, and the track record to own a programme at this level, we would like to hear from you.