Project Manager

TekWissen•Irvine, CA

19d•Hybrid

About The Position

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people's lives.

Requirements

5+ years leading Agile delivery for digital products, eCommerce platforms, or customer-facing applications.
Strong Jira and Confluence expertise, including workflows, boards, dashboards, reporting, and administration.
Experience supporting eCommerce, B2B/B2C digital commerce, customer portals, order management, or transactional platforms.
Demonstrated ability to lead and influence third-party vendors, systems integrators, and offshore teams while maintaining accountability for delivery outcomes.
Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Ability to establish meaningful delivery metrics and drive data-based decisions.
Experience managing complex, cross-functional projects in a regulated technical, laboratory, pharmaceutical, medical device, manufacturing, or life sciences environment.
Experience developing integrated schedules and managing project governance, meetings, action tracking, status reporting, and risks/issues.
Strong communication, organization, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to identify critical paths and drive mitigation, acceleration, and recovery actions.
Ability to work effectively with technical, quality, facilities/engineering, laboratory, procurement, IT, vendor, and senior stakeholder groups.
10+ years of experience/education and/or certifications required.

Nice To Haves

Agile certifications preferred (CSM, PSM, SAFe, etc.).
Pharma, healthcare, or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
Comfortable working with AI-assisted delivery and reporting tools.
Bachelor of Science
4 year pharma, health care, or regulated industry
PMP, CAPM, or equivalent project management certification.
Experience with laboratory construction, renovation, commissioning, qualification, validation, or operational readiness.
Experience with complaint handling, product quality, laboratory testing, investigations, or post-market surveillance.
Experience in GLP, GMP, or a similarly regulated environment.
Familiarity with change control, quality systems, validation documentation, inspection/audit readiness, and geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

Own sprint execution, delivery flow, and release readiness.
Drive backlog grooming, estimation, prioritization, and Definition of Ready compliance.
Establish and maintain delivery metrics, including velocity, throughput, capacity, and committed-versus-delivered performance.
Lead execution across Client and vendor teams, ensuring commitments are met and risks are addressed early.
Drive accountability with vendors and external partners through clear metrics, issue management, quality oversight, and escalation processes.
Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and release coordination.
Produce concise status reporting for leadership, highlighting progress, risks, decisions, and upcoming milestones.
Support the transition of delivery processes, reporting, and tooling from vendor-led to client-owned operations.
Maintain Jira and Confluence standards, dashboards, workflows, and reporting.
Promote a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement across internal and external teams.
Assume ownership of sprint execution, release coordination, and delivery reporting.
Establish baseline delivery metrics and capacity planning.
Improve backlog readiness and reduce execution bottlenecks.
Increase visibility and accountability across client and vendor teams.
Recommend and implement process improvements that improve delivery predictability while reducing unnecessary overhead.