Associate Director, Project Management

PPL Healthcare•Sellersville, PA

14h

About The Position

Piramal Pharma Solutions is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), offering end-to-end development and manufacturing solutions across the drug life cycle. We serve our clients through a globally integrated network of facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. This enables us to offer a comprehensive range of services including Drug Discovery Solutions, Process & Pharmaceutical Development services, Clinical Trial Supplies, Commercial supply of APIs and Finished dosage forms. We also offer specialized services like development and manufacture of Highly Potent APIs and Antibody Drug Conjugation. Our capability as an integrated service provider & experience with various technologies enables us to serve Innovator and Generic companies worldwide.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, technical, or business discipline
Demonstrated experience both leading client-facing, cross-functional project teams and delivering projects directly in a regulated environment
Strong working knowledge of project management tools such as Smartsheet or MS Project, with the ability to support the PM team in core tool usage
Strong commercial, financial, and customer‑management acumen
Customer & patient centric
Strategic thinking with operational rigor
Strong communication and influence
Risk‑based decision‑making
Accountability and ownership mindset
Ability to lead through complexity and ambiguity

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred
Formal Project Management training or certification (PMP / PRINCE2 / equivalent preferred)

Responsibilities

Hold overall accountability for portfolio delivery performance, ensuring commitments on scope, timeline, cost, quality, and compliance are met through effective PM execution.
Act as the escalation point for high-risk, cross-project, or unresolved issues, ensuring appropriate ownership and resolution across PMs and functions.
Maintain active oversight of customer satisfaction, ensuring expectations are clearly set, managed, and met throughout the project lifecycle.
Establish and own the site-level governance framework, aligned to Global PMO standards, including internal project team meetings, joint project team meetings with customers, and steering or governance forums where applicable.
Ensure governance practices include clear meeting cadence, agendas, minutes, action tracking, and escalation pathways.
Provide structured portfolio visibility and escalation to site leadership and relevant functional stakeholders.
Ensure consistent application of project planning disciplines across the PM team, including project schedules, critical path management, and RAID processes.
Maintain accountability for portfolio delivery performance, proactively identifying and addressing cross-project risks to timeline, scope, or cost.
Drive a proactive, risk-based approach to managing delivery and business exposure.
Ensure effective scope change management across the project portfolio, with accountability residing at project level with PMs.
Support and guide PMs, particularly junior PMs, in managing scope change processes and customer discussions, partnering with Business Development on commercial or non-routine changes as required.
Ensure scope changes follow contractual terms, governance expectations, internal approval processes, and customer communication standards.
Ensure accurate and timely project financial inputs (forecasting, milestones, risks) are provided by PMs, and partner with Finance to support forward-looking demand visibility across the portfolio.
Provide regular portfolio-level reporting on project status, schedule and cost variance, key risks, and overall outlook.
Oversee coordination of invoicing activities to ensure billing is accurate, timely, and aligned with project progress and delivery milestones.
Lead, coach, and develop the Project Management team, ensuring clear role accountability and consistent application of project management standards.
Support performance management, capability development, and succession planning within the PM function.
Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, customer focus, and business acumen.
Ensure effective use of project management systems, tools, and reporting mechanisms.
Partner with Global PMO to implement standardized processes and frameworks and drive continuous improvement in project delivery practices.
Contribute to cross‑functional operational excellence initiatives impacting project outcomes.
Act as a key interface between customers, site leadership, and global functions, representing project commitments, customer priorities, and business needs.
Partner with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Finance to balance customer expectations with site capacity, delivery risk, and broader business needs.
Where applicable, contribute to customer demand planning and longer-term capacity, workforce, or portfolio discussions.