Senior Manager, Project Management Academy

Catalent Pharma Solutions•Kansas City, MO

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Project Management Academy will define and maintain the Global PM Academy operating model, governance structure, and technical roadmap. The role designs and manages role-based learning programs, certification frameworks, and digital learning systems, ensuring global consistency, compliance, and continuous improvement across academy processes and platforms. The position leads the academy strategy and governance, develops project-management learning paths and training content, manages learning platforms and controlled content, and establishes analytics to assess training effectiveness, certification status, competency development, and business impact. It also drives curriculum improvement and the global scaling of standardized academy processes.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience in project management, Project Management Office, learning systems, technical training, or enterprise transformation, including responsibility for global standards or platforms is preferred.
Demonstrated experience designing competency frameworks, technical skill matrices, assessment rubrics, certification requirements, and proficiency-based career criteria.
Experience building and administering scalable onboarding, curricula, examinations, certification, and continuing-education programs.
Working knowledge of predictive, Agile, and hybrid project delivery methods, including scope, schedule, cost, risk, issue, dependency, change, and benefits management.
Experience with learning-management systems and digital-learning technologies, including assignments, access controls, completion tracking, audit trails, content versioning, and reporting.
Experience governing document repositories and controlled content, including Standard Operating Procedures, work instructions, templates, playbooks, curricula, records retention, and periodic review.
Advanced proficiency with data analysis, key performance indicator design, dashboards, assessment analytics, and measurement of training effectiveness and operational impact.
Knowledge of pharmaceutical, biotech, Contract Research Organization, Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization, clinical-supply, or other regulated operations, including quality-system and compliance requirements.
Experience implementing AI-enabled learning or project management solutions with appropriate data, security, validation, access, and content-governance controls.
Demonstrable leadership experience at Catalent, including participation in Catalent-sponsored leadership programs such as NGGL, GOLD, LEAD Now, GM Excellence, and GROW, may be considered in place of external experience.

Responsibilities

Lead the Global PM Academy strategy, governance, roadmap, release planning, key performance indicators, and operational controls.
Design role-based learning paths and onboarding programs, including assessments, proficiency benchmarks, and certification requirements.
Develop and maintain project management training content covering governance, planning, risk, finance, quality, compliance, and change control.
Manage learning platforms, digital training tools, AI-enabled learning capabilities, and controlled content repositories to ensure compliance and data integrity.
Establish reporting dashboards and analytics to measure training effectiveness, certification status, competency development, and business impact.
Drive continuous improvement through curriculum gap analyses, certification governance, and global scaling of standardized academy processes across sites and regions.