Senior Manager Technical Project Management
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Technical Project Management provides strategic leadership for complex, cross-functional technical projects involving innovation, renovation, business maintenance, total delivered cost, supply continuity, compliance, and other business-critical initiatives. The role ensures projects are prioritized, resourced, governed, and executed from initiation through launch and closure in alignment with key success criteria and business objectives. The Senior Manager leads cross-functional project teams and direct reports, developing project leadership capabilities and promoting consistent, high-quality execution. This position manages portfolio priorities, resource capacity, risks, dependencies, and competing business needs to direct resources toward high-impact work and protect strategic commitments. It also leads project and portfolio governance, improves project management processes, tools, systems, and working practices, and supports data integrity, portfolio visibility, and timely business decisions. The role partners with technical, commercial, operational, and business leaders, providing portfolio insights, escalating critical risks, recommending mitigation strategies, and promoting cross-functional alignment. It builds organizational project management capabilities through standards, best practices, competency development, and scalable processes. This is a remote-based role that can be performed from anywhere in the United States.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- At least 10 years of relevant cross-functional experience in areas such as Technical Applications, Research and Development, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality Assurance, Contract Manufacturing, Engineering, or Manufacturing.
- At least 8 years of project management experience leading complex initiatives in new product development, life sciences, engineering, or capital projects.
Nice To Haves
- Project management professional certification or an advanced degree in project management.
- Previous people-management experience.
Responsibilities
- Oversee complex, cross-functional projects from concept through launch and closure, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and at the required quality.
- Align stakeholders on project strategy, scope, success criteria, resources, risks, and execution plans.
- Monitor schedules, critical paths, budgets, dependencies, and portfolio health.
- Proactively address risks and escalate critical issues to protect business outcomes.
- Directly lead selected strategic, complex, or high-risk projects.
- Lead, coach, and develop direct reports to strengthen performance and project management capabilities.
- Assign resources according to business priorities, workload, project complexity, and development needs.
- Build succession and coverage plans to support business continuity.
- Foster accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
- Lead project and portfolio governance, ensuring projects are decision-ready, prioritized, and aligned with business strategy.
- Manage capacity planning and resource allocation across active and pipeline projects.
- Recommend project prioritization, sequencing, pausing, or cancellation based on value, readiness, and available capacity.
- Provide leadership with portfolio insights, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
- Ensure consistent application and continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, and governance standards.
- Maintain portfolio data accuracy, documentation, and performance measures.
- Simplify and standardize processes to improve speed, efficiency, and execution.
- Clarify cross-functional roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and handoffs.
- Establish standards, share best practices, strengthen project management competencies, and create scalable processes.
Benefits
- Performance-based incentives and bonus eligibility.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Healthcare coverage.
- A broad range of other benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
