Enterprise Programs Director

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

The Enterprise Program Leader will find, land, and execute global enterprise deals within our Enterprise Operations Platform (EOP) and Inmation data fabric solutions leveraging deep management consulting experience, a sharp strategic mindset, and a strong track record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder technology initiatives. The ideal candidate thrives at the intersection of business transformation and technology enablement—able to engage confidently with C-level executives, guide large delivery teams, and drive high-impact outcomes across global enterprises. This role requires someone who can translate business objectives into structured, executable programs while fostering strong client relationships and leading with influence across matrixed environments.

Your Impact

• Strategic Leadership: Direct complex customer engagements, both during the assessment (pre-deal) and implementation phase, providing continuity for our customers and ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and client needs.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with C-level executives and key stakeholders across multiple customer levels.
• Team Management: Lead large teams of consultants, partners and professional services colleagues, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
• Program Execution: Ensure the successful delivery of enterprise assessments and deployment programs, managing scope, budget, timelines, and resources effectively. Continuously identify opportunities to enhance program delivery and drive operational excellence.
• Operating in an advisory capacity to identify key problems, develop and evaluate alternative solutions and make recommendations to key customers and stakeholders.

What You'll Need

• The successful candidate will have a minimum of twelve (12) years’ experience with Information Technology initiatives, including formal project leadership experience.
• At least 4 years of Management Consulting experience at a large firm, with the corresponding skillset: business acumen, structured communication style, ability to synthesize complex information, concisely communicate with executive level presentation skills
• Experience with data integration and management platforms
• Outstanding problem solving and analytical skills to align with the customer on the desired outcomes and be able to convert a solution vision into a tangible execution plan
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate business requirements into a set of project deliverables and associated tasks.
• Experience in managing large scale projects impacting multiple business functions at multiple locations, including international.
• Strong communications skills (written and oral), with an ability to listen and to articulate project status and issues. Communication experience should include presentations at all organizational levels.
• Team building and management skills, to bring a diverse group together to deliver the required business results through influence and execution.
• Technical understanding to enable effective delivery of technology projects including new systems implementations and upgrades to existing systems.
• Good working understanding of the project management lifecycle and the key knowledge areas of project management: integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, procurement, stakeholder.
• Customer focus - proven track record of customer satisfaction and delivery success and ability to establish and maintain appropriate relationships with business and IT stakeholders.
• Industry recognized Project Management certification desirable.
• Familiarity with AspenTech's tools and solution is a plus