Project Manager, Associate Director - Remote

PHARMALOGIC HOLDINGS•Columbus, OH

15h•$125,000 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

The Project Manager, Associate Director leads functional and high-priority cross-functional initiatives that advance strategic objectives, enhance operational performance, and strengthen execution across the radiopharmaceutical organization. Working with enabling functions and operational leaders, this role guides strategic and operational initiatives from concept development through implementation and sustained adoption. The position brings structure and clarity to complex initiatives, accelerates decision-making, removes project barriers, and embeds operational excellence practices to improve efficiency, quality, scalability, and customer delivery. The role applies and helps standardize project management frameworks across sites, maintains an integrated view of the organizational portfolio, develops project plans and governance materials, and tracks portfolio KPIs. It also captures lessons learned, builds metrics connecting project performance to operational and financial results, and leads project execution, communications, documentation, risk management, and mitigation.

Requirements

At least 5 years of project/program management, operations, operational excellence, or business analytics experience.
Demonstrated success leading large, complex, cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
Demonstrated experience leading continuous improvement or operational excellence initiatives with measurable results.
Proficiency with project management and business tools such as Smartsheet, MS Project, PowerPoint, and Excel, including building KPI dashboards and reports.
Ability to connect individual projects to portfolio priorities and organizational strategy.
Ability to introduce new processes and standard work and drive adoption across teams and sites.
Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to build productive working relationships across functions and sites.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment and influence decision-making in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to identify risks, assess impacts, and implement effective mitigation strategies.
Structured problem-solving skills and a track record of rapidly aligning cross-functional teams to resolve complex issues.
Data-driven and pragmatic approach to using analytics to support decisions while maintaining execution efficiency.
Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities and deliver results with minimal supervision.
Ability to balance strategic, big-picture thinking with attention to detailed project execution.

Nice To Haves

PMP® certification.
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher.
PgMP® or PfMP® certification.

Responsibilities

Apply and help standardize project management frameworks across sites, including phase-gate governance, templates, standard work, and decision rights.
Maintain an integrated view of the organizational portfolio and align project priorities, capacity, and resources with business objectives.
Develop and maintain project charters, integrated plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures with clear milestones, deliverables, owners, and contracted invoicing milestones.
Define, track, and report portfolio KPIs, including schedule adherence, milestone and invoicing attainment, change order cycle time, and right-first-time execution.
Capture lessons learned at phase gates and project close and convert them into updated standard work, templates, and training.
Build metrics linking project performance to operational and financial results, and use them to prioritize improvement opportunities.
Lead internal project kick-off meetings and drive ongoing execution, providing project updates to internal teams and leadership.
Maintain project documentation, including agendas, meeting minutes, presentations, and change orders, to keep internal stakeholders aligned.
Identify and communicate project risks, dependencies, and critical path activities; implement mitigation strategies to address challenges and resource constraints.