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United Kingdom · International Business Global · Lead Level (8-12 years)

Lead, Strategic Programs

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandLead Level (8-12 years)
  • Direct reports3-8 reports
  • Reports toManager, Global Project Portfolio
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Head of Global Programs · Senior Program Manager (Strategy) · Portfolio Lead, International Projects · Strategic Initiative Lead

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1What this role really is

This isn't just about managing projects; it's about leading the charge on our biggest, most complex international initiatives. You'll be the person making sure these massive, cross-border programmes actually deliver what we promised, on time and on budget. Think of yourself as the conductor of a global orchestra, making sure everyone's playing the same tune, even if they're in different time zones and speaking different languages. It's a proper challenge, but when it works, the impact is huge.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Planview / Clarity (Broadcom) / Jira AlignAdvanced

Configuring project workflows, managing resource allocation across multiple programmes, and building custom dashboards for executive-level insights into programme health and portfolio performance.

Anaplan / Workday Adaptive PlanningAdvanced

Building and stress-testing complex financial models for global programmes, linking operational drivers to financial outcomes, and conducting detailed scenario planning for strategic investments.

Tableau / Power BIExpert

Building complex, interactive dashboards from scratch to visualise programme progress, benefits realisation, and risk profiles for senior leadership. You'll use advanced features to tell a compelling, data-driven story.

Miro / Confluence / MS TeamsAdvanced

Designing and facilitating complex multi-day virtual workshops with global teams. Architecting the Confluence knowledge base for your entire programme, ensuring seamless information flow and collaboration.

Diligent / BoardVantageBasic

Preparing and formatting materials for upload into the board portal for programme updates. You'll understand the security protocols and presentation standards for C-suite consumption.

ServiceNow GRC / ArcherIntermediate

Managing the risk register for your large global programmes, linking identified risks to controls and reporting on mitigation progress to relevant governance bodies.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Programme Scope ChangesEscalate all proposed changes to supervisor for review and approval.Propose minor scope adjustments within a workstream to project lead. Escalate significant changes.Recommend and justify scope changes to programme lead. Seek approval from relevant Directors/VPs.
Budget Allocation (within programme)Track actual spend against allocated budget. Report discrepancies.Manage workstream budget, escalating any forecasted overspends.Allocate budget across workstreams within an approved project. Flag potential overruns to programme lead.
Resource AssignmentFollow resource assignments from supervisor.Suggest resource reallocations within your workstream to project lead.Assign resources to tasks within your project. Request specific resources from programme lead.
Risk Mitigation StrategyIdentify risks and suggest mitigation actions to supervisor.Propose and execute mitigation plans for identified workstream risks.Develop and implement mitigation strategies for project-level risks, consulting with programme lead.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Program Delivery Rate
The percentage of your assigned strategic programmes that are delivered on-time and within the approved budget.
Target · >90% of programmes

If you're leading four major programmes, we'd expect at least three to hit their original targets for completion and cost. One might slip, but you'll have a clear recovery plan.

Benefits Realisation Tracking
How accurately and diligently you track the actual business benefits (e.g., revenue uplift, cost savings) promised in the original business case, post-launch.
Target · 100% of major benefits tracked, with <10% variance to forecast

A programme promised £2M in annual cost savings. You'll be responsible for showing, with real numbers, that we actually saved £1.8M-£2.2M, not just saying we did.

Resource Capacity Utilisation
Ensuring the key resources (people, budget) allocated to your programmes are used effectively and aren't sitting idle or overstretched.
Target · Maintain an average of 85% utilisation for dedicated programme resources

If you have a team of five people assigned to your programme, you'll make sure they're busy and productive for roughly 85% of their time, not 50% or 110%.

Risk Mitigation Effectiveness
How well you identify, assess, and put in place plans to reduce the impact of potential risks on your programmes.
Target · <5% of critical risks materialise without a pre-planned mitigation

You spotted a potential regulatory change in Germany early. You put a plan in place, and when the change happened, it caused minimal disruption, rather than derailing the entire European launch.

Stakeholder Trust & Influence
How effectively you build credibility and influence with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, getting them to back your programme decisions.
  • You're proactively consulted on strategic decisions related to your programmes. VPs trust your RAG status reports, even when they're red. People volunteer their best resources for your initiatives because they believe in your leadership.
Strategic Alignment Score
The degree to which your programmes consistently contribute to the company's top 3-5 strategic goals, as measured by our internal scoring model.
  • Your programmes consistently score highly in our quarterly portfolio reviews. You can clearly articulate how each major deliverable ties back to a specific corporate KPI. You're known for challenging initiatives that drift off strategy.
Team Leadership & Mentorship
How well you guide, develop, and motivate the project strategists and other team members working on your programmes.
  • Your direct reports show clear growth in their capabilities and confidence. They feel supported and challenged. You're seen as a go-to person for advice and problem-solving, not just task assignment. We see low attrition within your direct team.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Solving Big, Messy Problems

You thrive on taking a complex, ambiguous global challenge and breaking it down into a clear, executable plan. You enjoy the puzzle of coordinating disparate teams and finding solutions to unexpected roadblocks.

When a new regulatory hurdle pops up in Brazil, you're energised by figuring out how to adapt the programme without derailing the entire LATAM launch.

Driving Tangible Impact

You're not happy until you see your programmes actually deliver the promised business value. You get a real kick out of seeing your strategic vision come to life and move the company forward.

Seeing the revenue numbers climb after a global product launch you led, or the efficiency gains from a new operational process you implemented, is what keeps you going.

Leading and Mentoring

You enjoy guiding and developing your team, helping them navigate complex project challenges and grow their own capabilities. You like being the person others look to for direction and support.

You take pride in coaching a junior strategist through their first complex stakeholder negotiation, or seeing a team member you mentored step up to lead their own workstream.

What frustrates people
  • The Executive 'Pet Project': Fighting a losing battle against a poorly justified programme that has a powerful sponsor, bypassing all standard governance and consuming valuable resources.
  • Warring Regional Fiefdoms: Acting as a UN peacekeeper between regional heads (e.g., North America vs. EMEA) who have conflicting priorities and view your global programme as a threat to their autonomy.
  • Benefits Tracking Theatre: Being forced to report on benefits that are impossible to measure accurately because the underlying data infrastructure doesn't exist, leading to creative storytelling for the steering committee.
  • The 'Quarterly Strategy Refresh': Your meticulously planned 18-month programme is thrown into chaos every three months when the corporate strategy shifts, forcing constant replanning and justification.
  • Resource Hostages: Key subject matter experts are consistently 'too busy' with their BAU work to contribute, and their line managers are unwilling to free them up, despite the programme being a stated company priority.
What this role does not give you
  • A quiet, solitary work environment – you'll be interacting with people constantly.
  • Guaranteed stability in project scope or direction – things change, often quickly.
  • A role where you only execute; you're expected to challenge and shape strategy.
  • A place where you can avoid conflict – managing global programmes means navigating disagreements.

6Who you work with

This role directly impacts the successful execution of our global corporate strategy. You're responsible for turning big ideas into tangible business outcomes, ensuring significant investments deliver their promised ROI. Get it right, and we grow. Get it wrong, and we lose market share and competitive advantage. Honestly, it's a make-or-break kind of position for our strategic initiatives.

Inside the business
  • VPs and Directors across Product, Sales, Operations, and Finance
  • Regional Business Unit Heads (e.g., EMEA, APAC, Americas)
  • Legal and Compliance teams
  • IT and Digital Transformation leadership
Outside the business
  • Strategic vendor partners (e.g., software providers, consulting firms)
  • Key international clients (for pilot programmes)
  • Industry bodies or regulatory agencies (occasionally)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven track record of successfully leading multiple complex projects or a large programme end-to-end, ideally in an international context.
  • Demonstrable experience in developing and managing significant programme budgets (e.g., £500K+).
  • Experience managing and mentoring junior project professionals (e.g., L2/L3 roles).
  • Strong experience with formal project governance, including running steering committees and stage-gate reviews.
  • A solid understanding of business case development, including financial modelling principles (NPV, IRR).

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Integrated Portfolio Tool Architecture

As our global portfolio grows, the ability to seamlessly connect Planview, Anaplan, and our GRC systems will be critical for a single, real-time view of strategic performance. You'll need to understand the 'plumbing' of these systems.

API Integrations & Data Flows · Master Data Management for Strategic Assets · Enterprise Reporting Layer Design · Governance & Security in Integrated Systems

  • This quarter: Work closely with our IT team to understand the current data architecture between Planview and Anaplan.
  • Next 6 months: Take ownership of improving one specific data integration point between two core strategic tools, identifying pain points and proposing solutions.
  • Next 12 months: Lead a small initiative to standardise programme metadata and reporting fields across our global portfolio, ensuring consistency.
  • Ongoing: Participate in relevant internal training sessions on our enterprise architecture and data governance initiatives.

Quick win: Map out the current data flow for one of your major programmes, identifying where data is manually transferred or inconsistent. Present this to IT.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attend industry conferences and webinars on global project management, strategic execution, and emerging technologies (e.g., AI in PM).
  • Participate in peer-to-peer learning groups or communities of practice focused on international programme leadership.
  • Seek out mentorship from senior leaders within or outside the organisation who have successfully led large-scale global transformations.
  • Actively engage with our internal AI Productivity Hub to explore and implement new tools and techniques in your daily work.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI-Enhanced Strategic Decision Making

AI isn't just for automating tasks anymore; it's becoming a partner in strategic analysis. Leaders who can effectively use AI to process vast amounts of market, geopolitical, and internal data will make faster, more informed programme decisions.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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Built for Lead, Strategic Programs

5 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Manage a programme of complementary projectsNCFE · covers 3 of 10 standardsLevel 5
  2. Manage Travel Planning ProjectsOpen University Awarding Body · covers 1 of 10 standardsLevel 5
  3. Managing a Programme of Complementary ProjectsMP Awards · covers 1 of 10 standardsLevel 6
  4. Leading and Managing PeopleNQual · covers 1 of 10 standardsLevel 5
  5. Provide Leadership and Direction for an OrganisationSkills and Education Group Awards · covers 1 of 10 standardsLevel 6
These are the real units behind this job, in the order they rank for it. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI-Enhanced Strategic Decision Making

AI isn't just for automating tasks anymore; it's becoming a partner in strategic analysis. Leaders who can effectively use AI to process vast amounts of market, geopolitical, and internal data will make faster, more informed programme decisions.

  • Generative AI for Scenario Planning
  • Advanced Predictive Analytics
  • Ethical AI & Bias Detection
  • Human-in-the-Loop AI Integration

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Strategic Portfolio Management
  • Benefits Realisation Management (BRM)
  • Business Case Development & Financial Modeling
  • Hybrid Project Management
  • Geopolitical & Market Risk Analysis
  • Prosci ADKAR Model (or similar Change Management)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Senior Project Strategist (L3)

    3-5 years

    Skills to master

    • Mastering end-to-end project delivery, managing cross-functional project teams, and effectively influencing project-level stakeholders. Getting really good at business case development for individual projects.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully delivered multiple complex projects on time and budget.
    • Consistently received strong feedback on stakeholder management and problem-solving.
    • Demonstrated ability to mentor junior project professionals.
    • Proactively identified and mitigated project risks without constant supervision.
  2. 2

    Management Consultant (Senior Manager/Principal)

    2-4 years

    Skills to master

    • Developing deep expertise in strategic problem-solving, client relationship management, and leading diverse project teams in fast-paced environments. Strong focus on delivering measurable client impact.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Led multiple client engagements from proposal to delivery.
    • Managed project teams of 5+ consultants.
    • Developed compelling strategic recommendations and implementation plans.
    • Demonstrated strong commercial acumen and client development skills.
  3. 3

    Head of Project Management Office (PMO) for a Business Unit

    3-5 years

    Skills to master

    • Establishing and optimising project governance frameworks, standardising methodologies, and managing a team of project managers. Focus on overall project delivery efficiency and reporting within a specific business unit.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully implemented or significantly improved a PMO function.
    • Managed a team of 5+ project managers.
    • Improved project delivery metrics across a business unit.
    • Developed strong relationships with business unit leadership.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey here is about continuous growth and impact. Whether you climb the management ladder or become an unparalleled individual contributor, we're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to build a truly remarkable career in global strategic execution.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Lead, Strategic Programs is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Manage a programme of complementary projectsLevel 5

Applied to your work in Lead, Strategic Programs

By completing this unit, learners will be able to develop a programme plan, communicate aims to project managers, monitor progress, and evaluate a programme, based on an understanding of programme management principles and techniques.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Lead, Strategic Programs

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Program Delivery RateThe percentage of your assigned strategic programmes that are delivered on-time and within the approved budget.If you're leading four major programmes, we'd expect at least three to hit their original targets for completion and cost. One might slip, but you'll have a clear recovery plan.>90% of programmes
  • Benefits Realisation TrackingHow accurately and diligently you track the actual business benefits (e.g., revenue uplift, cost savings) promised in the original business case, post-launch.A programme promised £2M in annual cost savings. You'll be responsible for showing, with real numbers, that we actually saved £1.8M-£2.2M, not just saying we did.100% of major benefits tracked, with <10% variance to forecast
  • Resource Capacity UtilisationEnsuring the key resources (people, budget) allocated to your programmes are used effectively and aren't sitting idle or overstretched.If you have a team of five people assigned to your programme, you'll make sure they're busy and productive for roughly 85% of their time, not 50% or 110%.Maintain an average of 85% utilisation for dedicated programme resources
  • Risk Mitigation EffectivenessHow well you identify, assess, and put in place plans to reduce the impact of potential risks on your programmes.You spotted a potential regulatory change in Germany early. You put a plan in place, and when the change happened, it caused minimal disruption, rather than derailing the entire European launch.<5% of critical risks materialise without a pre-planned mitigation
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Lead, Strategic Programs to Manager, Global Project Portfolio (L5), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Manager, Global Project Portfolio (L5)→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey here is about continuous growth and impact. Whether you climb the management ladder or become an unparalleled individual contributor, we're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to build a truly remarkable career in global strategic execution.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Lead, Strategic Programs
  • Strategic Portfolio Management
  • Benefits Realisation Management (BRM)
  • Business Case Development & Financial Modeling
  • Hybrid Project Management
  • Geopolitical & Market Risk Analysis
  • Prosci ADKAR Model (or similar Change Management)
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Lead, Strategic Programs is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Manager, Global Project Portfolio (L5)

    3-5 years

    This is a significant step up. You'll move from managing individual programmes to overseeing an entire portfolio of related programmes, focusing on strategic optimisation and resource allocation across them. You'll manage other programme leads.

    • Enterprise portfolio optimisation techniques (e.g., constrained optimisation, scenario modelling).
    • Advanced resource capacity planning across multiple programmes and business units.
    • Defining and implementing enterprise-wide project governance frameworks.
    • Leading large-scale organisational change initiatives.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, running global programmes means a lot of manual reporting, risk analysis, and stakeholder comms. But what if you could cut out the grunt work and focus on actually leading strategy? Our AI Productivity Hub is here to help you do just that.

We're embedding AI tools directly into how we manage our strategic programmes. This isn't about replacing you; it's about giving you a serious advantage, freeing up your time to tackle the really complex, human-centric challenges that only you can solve.

Automated Portfolio Reporting

Imagine AI pulling all your status, budget, and risk data from Planview, Jira Align, and Anaplan. It then synthesises it into a crisp, natural-language executive summary and a standardised slide deck for your monthly steering committee. No more late nights wrestling with PowerPoint.

Predictive Risk Analysis

Our AI analyses historical project data to spot early warning signs of trouble. It flags your current programmes showing similar patterns – like a sudden spike in change requests or a key resource consistently overbooked – and gives you a percentage chance of delay or overrun. You'll be proactive, not reactive.

Geopolitical Briefing Synthesis

Before you kick off a new programme in a challenging market, use an AI research assistant. It'll synthesise the latest reports from top sources into a concise brief covering regulatory hurdles, supply chain vulnerabilities, and local labour laws. Get up to speed in hours, not days.

Stakeholder Communication Drafts

Feed an AI model your programme charter and key updates. Ask it to generate tailored communication drafts for different groups: a concise, outcome-focused update for VPs; a detailed, technical update for the engineering team; and a benefit-focused update for the sales team. Saves you hours of wordsmithing.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Lead, Strategic Programs?

Common routes in include Senior Project Strategist (L3) (3-5 years), Management Consultant (Senior Manager/Principal) (2-4 years) and Head of Project Management Office (PMO) for a Business Unit (3-5 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Lead, Strategic Programs progress to?

This role can lead on to Manager, Global Project Portfolio (L5) (3-5 years), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Lead, Strategic Programs in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Lead, Strategic Programs?

Increasingly, AI-Enhanced Strategic Decision Making. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows Lead, Strategic Programs, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 10 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Lead, Strategic Programs: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in International Business Global

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you build in this role – particularly in global programme leadership, strategic execution, and cross-cultural influence – are highly transferable. You could move into senior roles in management consulting, other large international corporations, or even into a Chief of Staff position for a C-level executive.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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