Project Manager # 26-26611

USTech Solutions•Cambridge, MA

About The Position

R&D is establishing and scaling global development hubs in India and Poland as part of its Global Capability Model (GCM) transformation. The program is building new R&D capabilities while redesigning how work is organized, where capabilities are located, and how teams operate across the global R&D network. The Functional GCM Project Management role provides dedicated execution support to one or more R&D Functional Leaders. It translates functional strategies and designs into executable workforce, change, onboarding, and transition plans, while ensuring issues are identified and resolved before disrupting implementation. This hands-on role requires project management, structured problem solving, and collaboration across global functions, HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, local site teams, and other GCM workstreams. The role may be filled at different levels of seniority. Senior resources will lead work with Functional GCM Leads and independently drive cross-functional execution. More junior resources will provide project management, analysis, and coordination support within the same areas of responsibility.

Requirements

Demonstrated project or program management experience in a complex, global organization.
Ability to manage multiple interconnected workstreams with significant organizational and stakeholder dependencies.
Strong analytical skills and ability to translate strategy or organization design into practical implementation plans.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of clear executive-level materials.
Ability to work effectively with senior functional leaders as well as operational teams.
Demonstrated ability to identify risks, resolve ambiguity, and drive issues to closure.
Ability to work through ambiguity, challenge plans that are not executable, and build relationships across functions and geographies.
Comfort operating where design and execution occur simultaneously and priorities, workforce assumptions, and implementation approaches continue to evolve.

Nice To Haves

Experience with workforce planning, organizational transformation, change management, business-case development, or large-scale implementation.
Experience within pharmaceutical R&D, life sciences, or another complex global operating environment.

Responsibilities

Partner with Functional GCM Leads to translate approved functional strategies and organization designs into practical execution plans.
Maintain an integrated view of functional milestones, dependencies, decisions, risks, and issues across workforce build, change, onboarding, and transition activities.
Connect functional execution with the broader GCM program and identify dependencies requiring coordination across R&D functions, GCM sites, or enterprise teams.
Surface emerging execution issues early and provide clear options and recommendations for resolution.
Establish and operate a high-touch transition support process for functions moving work, building new teams, or implementing new operating models.
Coordinate transition issues raised by functional leaders, managers, and new teams; triage them, connect them to the appropriate owner, and drive follow-through to resolution.
Identify recurring transition issues and patterns that indicate broader gaps in processes, policies, onboarding, technology, or site readiness, and escalate them through the GCM program.
Partner with Functional GCM Leads, hiring managers, and local India and Poland Knowledge Transfer PM teams to prepare for successful onboarding of new employees and teams.
Coordinate functional readiness for hiring cohorts, including manager preparation, local orientation, access and tools, role onboarding, and other dependencies needed for employees to become productive.
Work with dedicated Knowledge Transfer PMs while maintaining separation between overall functional implementation and detailed knowledge-transfer execution.
Ensure dependencies among hiring, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness are visible and managed.
Support Functional GCM Leads in finalizing workforce and hiring plans, including roles, locations, timing, sequencing, and hiring waves.
Maintain accurate functional demand and hiring plans and reconcile changes with Talent Acquisition, HR, and the central GCM workforce planning process.
Track progress from approved workforce demand through requisition launch, recruiting, and hiring, highlighting risks to planned timing or workforce assumptions.
Identify practical adjustments to sequencing, role profiles, or hiring plans when market conditions or execution performance differ from assumptions.
Support development and execution of divisional and functional change and communication plans associated with GCM implementation.
Work with Functional GCM Leads, HR, and Communications to identify affected stakeholder groups, key messages, leadership engagement needs, manager support, and employee readiness activities.
Coordinate functional change activities with the broader R&D GCM narrative and site-level communications.
Track change readiness, emerging concerns, and adoption risks, ensuring they are addressed through appropriate functional or program channels.
Support development of business cases for new or evolving functional GCM designs.
Coordinate collection and analysis of workforce, cost, timing, organizational, and operational assumptions for assessing proposed designs.
Work with Functional GCM Leads, Finance, HR, and the broader GCM team to prepare materials for design reviews and investment decisions.
Maintain traceability between approved business-case assumptions and subsequent execution plans.