Senior Director of the Global Project Delivery Office

Catalent • Philadelphia, PA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Catalent is a global, high-growth, private company, and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives. Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer and Catalent employee.
The Senior Director of the Global Project Delivery Office (GPDO) is accountable for building and leading the enterprise global function that drives delivery excellence, capability development, operational standardization, and central operations across the Project Delivery organization. This leader oversees three enterprise pillars ensuring consistent, predictable, and scalable execution across all regions and sites: CSS Enterprise Strategy Execution, PM Academy/Business Process Optimization & Governance, and Global Central Operations, Quality Governance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, AI literacy preferred
• 15+ years in Project/Program Management, Operational Excellence, or global transformation roles. PMO experience preferred
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise‑scale operational standardization and capability‑building programs.
• Experience in PM and Lean methodologies, governance frameworks, digital PM tools (Workfront/OneHub/JDE), data analytics, and AI literacy preferred.
• Strong financial acumen and experience managing budgets, forecasts, and cost models.
• Proven leadership in matrixed environments with global stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication, executive presence, organizational leadership, and change leadership capability.

Nice To Haves

• AI literacy preferred
• PMO experience preferred
• AI literacy preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise CSS strategy execution—driving dashboards, analytics, operating model upkeep, and governance rhythm in one cohesive framework.
• Run global PM/PC capability development—owning training, onboarding, certification, competencies, role expectations, promotion pathways, continuous learning, mentorship, and SME engagement.
• Drive global PM process and tool standardization—overseeing continuous improvement, OneHub/Workfront governance and change management, and financial governance across budgets, forecasts, amendments, invoices, and profitability.
• Align PM, Ops, Quality, Finance, IT, and HR around unified delivery standards—driving systemic issue resolution, end‑to‑end delivery improvements, and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Partners with the Global Central Operations Leader to deploy Ops strategy across sites, drive priority alignment and adoption, resolve delivery issues, and advance operational excellence.
• Partners with Central Quality to deploy quality strategy, enforce global standards, and ensure deviation management, compliance, and audit readiness while driving right‑first‑time execution across all sites.

Benefits

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process
• Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives
• Competitive compensation package
• Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment
• Tuition Reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director