Sales Geo Expansion Programme Manager

Apple Apple · Big Tech · London, United Kingdom · Sales and Business Development

Apple is seeking a Programme Manager for their Sales GeoExpansion team to lead complex strategic projects and initiatives, build business infrastructure, and grow markets. The role requires strong leadership, change management, and cross-functional collaboration skills to drive projects from feasibility to implementation in emerging markets. The ideal candidate will be commercially astute, a problem solver, and capable of navigating ambiguity.

What you'd actually do

  1. Autonomously run programmes and projects of varying scale and complexity
  2. Lead cross-functional teams with consultative direction from management
  3. Identify and clarify cross functional business requirements
  4. Review business requirements, ensure clarity and establish expectations for services requested
  5. Facilitate process development and clarification across functions to ensure project goals are met

Skills

Required

  • Change leadership expertise
  • Leadership skills
  • Social skills
  • Partnership and influential working relationships
  • Commercially astute
  • Intellectually curious
  • Problem solver
  • Ability to lead from the front
  • Listening skills
  • Commitment and tenacity
  • Strong eye for detail
  • Ability to create a path through ambiguity
  • Ability to clearly see what is most important and why
  • Ability to operate autonomously in a matrixed organisation
  • Business context understanding
  • Commercial understanding
  • Operational understanding
  • Technical understanding
  • Project management
  • Programme management
  • Analytical skills
  • Initiative
  • Flexibility
  • Supplier and vendor leadership
  • Process and/or tool improvement direction
  • Internal customer partnering
  • Verbal and written communication skills
  • Executive presentation skills
  • Data evaluation, analysis, and presentation
  • Task prioritization
  • Strong eye for business
  • Understanding of business partners' work and goals
  • Adaptable approach to work
  • High level of ethics, values, integrity, and trust
  • Solid work ethic

Nice to have

  • Programme / Project Management Certification (MSP, Prince2 or equivalent)

What the JD emphasized

  • Critically, you will have the ability to clearly see what is most important and why; focusing your team on that
  • A deep appreciation of business context, and a balance of commercial, operational and technical understanding are required along with an ability to operate autonomously in a matrixed organisation
  • In depth relevant experience leading large and highly complex programmes and projects
  • Strong analytical skills, meticulous with strong intuition for business and consumer focus
  • Demonstrate initiative, flexibility and analytical skills in a changing and dynamic environment
  • Previous leadership skills including experience leading suppliers and vendors
  • Previous experience setting direction for process and/or tool improvements to support team objectives
  • Experience partnering with internal customers to achieve goals as a virtual team, including strong program and project management of complex issues
  • Extraordinary verbal and written communications skills, including presenting to executives.
  • Strong analytical capabilities, should have the ability to evaluate, analyse and present data to executive level
  • Able to prioritise tasks effectively
  • You will have a strong eye for business coupled with an understanding of the business partners work and goals