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Saad-Ali Khan Program Lead / Director (Contractor)SK

Saad-Ali Khan

Program Lead / Director (Contractor)
  • Suggested rate
    €1,007 / day
  • Experience3-7 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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London, United Kingdom
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  • and around London (up to 50km)
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Industry fields of expertise
Pharmaceuticals
Banking and Financial Services
Civil Engineering and Infrastructure
Defense and Military
Telecommunications
Saad-Ali in a few words
I'm Saad, a seasoned Program Director with over a decade of experience delivering complex transformation programs across pharma, public sector, banking, and tech. Most recently, I led a $6M global centralisation program for AstraZeneca, streamlining processes across 49 countries and launching a new global CoE model.

Clients trust me to bring clarity to chaos — whether it’s building a PMO from scratch, leading cross-functional teams, or driving global change initiatives with tight timelines and even tighter governance. I blend a strategic mindset with hands-on delivery, and I’m passionate about making transformation feel less like a buzzword and more like a lived result.

Available for freelance or contract roles — remote or hybrid — where leadership, pace, and structure are needed.

Experience
  • AstraZeneca
    Program Lead / Director (Contractor)
    May 2023 - Today (2 years and 1 month)
    London, UK
    • Lead a transformation program worth up to $6m, consisting of 6 projects and over 80 team members.
    • Directed the strategy for the program incl; benefits realisation, budget management & utilisation, operational effectiveness & efficiency.
    • Current: Program Director leading a strategic global-centralisation initiative to consolidate transactional tasks within Centers of Excellence (CoEs) and Shared Service Centers (SSCs).
  • Meta / Indigo Subsea
    Program Lead (Contractor)
    April 2022 - March 2023 (11 months)
    London, UK
    Hybrid role split between implementing ITIL processes for service provision and project lead on cyber security compliance initiative with US Govt and NSA.
    • ITIL Project Lead - Design, implementation & documentation of critical ITIL processes for new Meta Subsea initiative incl. Change Management, Service Management, Incident & Problem Management.
    • Delivery of cyber security maturity assessment and SDLC processes integration (Salesforce)
    • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless SAP S/4HANA integration into the subsea training and service management platform.
  • Affinity Water
    Program Lead - Digital Transformation (Contractor)
    January 2021 - March 2022 (1 year and 2 months)
    London, UK
    • Led enterprise wide digitial transformation by integrating SAP S/4HANA into the CRM ecosystem, streamlining customer operations and ensuring e2e process alignment across finance and service teams.
    • Led the design, build & implementation of Power Bi O365 Dashboard to manage in house KPI & SLA functionality.
    • Design & Implementation of phase 2 Digital Transformation Strategy.
    • Delivery of systems consolidation assessment.
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Education
  • Manchester Metropolitan University
    2014