Description

Key Responsibilities

Project & Program Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, enterprise-level IT and business technology projects across a global portfolio.
• Quickly assess project status, scope, stakeholders, dependencies, risks, milestones, and outstanding decisions when joining an existing initiative.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering scope, schedule, resources, budget, risks, dependencies, quality, and business readiness.
• Drive projects from initiation and planning through execution, deployment, transition, and closure.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects or workstreams with competing priorities.
• Proactively identify delivery challenges and develop practical recovery and mitigation plans.
• Ensure milestones, deliverables, and commitments are completed according to agreed timelines and quality expectations.

Global Stakeholder Management

• Work effectively across a complex, global, matrixed organization involving business, IT, vendors, and external partners.
• Coordinate geographically distributed teams across multiple functions and time zones.
• Build strong working relationships with business sponsors, IT leadership, functional teams, technical teams, and third-party vendors.
• Facilitate project meetings, workshops, governance forums, and executive steering committee discussions.
• Drive accountability by ensuring actions, decisions, risks, and dependencies have clear owners and due dates.
• Communicate project status, risks, issues, decisions, and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders.

Governance, Risk & Dependency Management

• Establish and maintain appropriate project governance and reporting structures.
• Maintain RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs, dependency trackers, project schedules, and status reports.
• Identify cross-project and cross-functional dependencies and proactively drive them to resolution.
• Escalate critical risks, resource constraints, scope issues, and decision requirements at the appropriate time.
• Ensure project documentation is accurate, current, and audit-ready.
• Support portfolio-level reporting and provide concise executive-level project updates.

Financial & Vendor Management

• Support project budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and financial tracking.
• Monitor project spend against approved budgets and investigate variances.
• Manage external vendors and implementation partners to ensure delivery against contractual commitments.
• Track vendor deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and SOW obligations.
• Coordinate internal and external resources to maintain project delivery momentum.

Pharma / Life Sciences Delivery

• Manage technology initiatives within Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, or Medical Device environments.
• Understand the importance of quality, compliance, documentation, validation, data integrity, and change control within regulated environments.
• Partner effectively with business, quality, regulatory, security, infrastructure, application, data, and other technology teams.
• Ensure project execution aligns with applicable organizational governance and regulated-industry requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT project/program management experience, with significant experience leading complex enterprise technology initiatives.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience working within Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, or Medical Devices.
• 5+ years of proven ability to independently manage complex projects involving multiple workstreams, stakeholders, vendors, and dependencies.
• Experience operating within large global and matrixed organizations.
• 5+ years of Strong experience with project planning, scheduling, RAID management, dependency management, financial tracking, resource planning, and executive reporting.
• Experience coordinating globally distributed teams across business and IT functions.
• Strong vendor and third-party management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to join an existing project, rapidly understand the landscape, identify delivery gaps, and add value from day one.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, negotiation, and escalation skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, changing priorities, and multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Strong proficiency with standard project management and reporting tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent project/program management certification.
• Experience working in a regulated GxP/GMP environment.
• Familiarity with CSV/CSA, 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 5, data integrity, or regulated IT delivery practices.
• Experience with enterprise transformation, application implementation, infrastructure, cloud, ERP, data, digital transformation, M&A/integration, or application transition programs.
• Experience managing global projects involving teams across North America, Europe, and APAC.
• Experience presenting project status, risks, financials, and recommendations to senior/executive leadership

Key Skills

Education

Any Gradute