Enterprise Growth Programs Senior Director

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• Emplacement: Hoofddorp, Netherlands
• Full time
• Affiliated Companies: World Courier Holland B.V.

Job Details

The Senior Director, Enterprise Growth Programs is a senior leadership role within the Business Transformation & Growth function, responsible for accelerating enterprise-level growth initiatives across World Courier and the broader Cencora ecosystem. Reporting to the Vice President, Business Transformation & Growth, this role acts as a strategic integrator — shaping complex growth initiatives, driving cross-functional alignment, and unlocking enterprise synergies — while working in close partnership with Strategy, Innovation, IT, Finance, and the Value Management Office (VMO). This role operates upstream of execution governance and is accountable for ensuring that high-impact growth initiatives are strategically robust, commercially sound, and fully aligned before entering formal delivery structures.

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Growth Initiative Development

• Lead the shaping and maturation of selected high-priority growth initiatives prior to formal execution.
• Develop and refine initiative value propositions, scope, and success criteria.
• Build robust financial cases, including investment requirements, expected returns, and risk assessments.
• Ensure commercial, operational, IT, and financial stakeholders are aligned on objectives and feasibility.
• Identify structural barriers, cross-functional dependencies, and execution risks early.
• Strengthen initiative clarity and robustness before transition into formal delivery structures. Focus: Improving the quality and clarity of individual growth initiatives.

2. Cencora Ecosystem Growth & Synergy Development

• Drive identification and monetization of cross-business-unit growth opportunities within the broader Cencora ecosystem.
• Identify, quantify, and prioritize enterprise-level synergy opportunities.
• Develop structured business cases for joint offerings, partnerships, and shared capabilities.
• Coordinate pilot programs across business units to validate revenue and operational impact.
• Serve as World Courier’s growth interface for enterprise-wide strategic initiatives.
• Translate enterprise strategy into actionable growth opportunities for World Courier. Focus: Expanding growth beyond BU boundaries.

3. Execution Readiness & Transition to Delivery

• Ensure disciplined transition of approved initiatives into structured execution without duplicating governance responsibilities.
• Define clear scope, success metrics, and ownership prior to VMO onboarding.
• Align resourcing assumptions and delivery sequencing with functional leaders.
• Clarify roles and accountability between business sponsors, IT, Operations, and VMO.
• Support early-phase execution alignment where complexity requires senior integration.
• Maintain continuity of strategic intent as initiatives transition into formal delivery. Focus: Smooth and disciplined handoff to execution (VMO retains governance ownership).

4. Executive Support & Strategic Assignments

• Provide senior-level leverage to the Vice President, Business Transformation & Growth across high impact growth priorities.
• Represent the function in executive forums as required.
• Lead special strategic assignments requiring cross-functional integration.
• Prepare executive-level materials for Leadership Team and Board discussions.
• Drive accountability across functional and regional leaders on agreed growth commitments.
• Step into complex, politically sensitive initiatives where senior coordination is required. Focus: Extending executive bandwidth and ensuring cross-functional accountability.

Operating Model & Interfaces

This role works in close partnership with:

• Strategy Team – to ensure growth initiatives align with long-term strategic direction and market insights.
• Innovation Function – to support transition from validated concepts to enterprise growth programs.
• Value Management Office (VMO) – which retains ownership of project governance and delivery execution. This role does not replace or duplicate the responsibilities of the VMO; rather, it strengthens initiative quality and cross-functional integration prior to and during execution.
• IT and Operations – to ensure feasibility and scalable implementation.
• Finance – to ensure financial rigor, capital allocation discipline, and ROI tracking.

Requirements

• 10plus years of progressive leadership experience in strategy, transformation, or enterprise program leadership.
• Background in management consulting, healthcare, logistics, life sciences, or similarly complex B2B environments.
• Demonstrated experience shaping and leading cross-functional growth initiatives.
• Strong financial acumen, including business case development and capital allocation discipline.
• Experience navigating matrixed, global organizations.
• Exceptional strategic thinking combined with pragmatic execution orientation.
• Ability to operate comfortably at executive level while driving alignment across functions.
• Strong commercial judgment and value orientation.
• High political intelligence and stakeholder management maturity.
• Structured, analytical, and outcome-focused mindset.
• Executive presence and credibility with senior leadership.

Success Measures

• Number and quality of enterprise growth initiatives successfully shaped and transitioned into execution.
• Measurable cross-BU revenue synergies identified and realized.
• Acceleration of high-priority growth programs.
• Increased rigor and clarity in business cases entering the VMO.
• Executive confidence in growth portfolio governance and prioritization.