Sr Project Mgr

BioPharma Consulting JAD Group

About The Position

Oversees, manages, and coordinates all operational aspects of ongoing department-level projects with significant impact across multiple organizations. Serves as a liaison between the project team and the organization. The role manages project planning, implementation, monitoring, completion, and follow-up; coordinates schedules, budgets, resources, and project standards; and develops solutions to project issues to meet scientific, productivity, quality, and client satisfaction goals. It also supports senior management and department heads, may direct project support staff, and ensures project work complies with applicable regulatory requirements, guidelines, practices, policies, and standard operating procedures.

Requirements

Doctorate and 2 years of project management experience; or Master's degree and 4 years; or Bachelor's degree and 6 years; or Associate degree and 10 years; or high school diploma/GED and 12 years.
Project management experience at the level corresponding to the applicant's education.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in change control management, project controls, and capital projects.
Demonstrated experience leading New Product Introduction (NPI), technology transfer, process development, lifecycle management, or commercialization programs.
Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional projects from business case development through execution and product launch.
Experience developing and managing integrated project schedules, resource plans, risk registers, budgets, and governance processes.
Process validation background.

Responsibilities

Manage all aspects of assigned projects, including planning, implementation, monitoring, completion, and follow-up.
Manage competing timelines and prioritize critical tasks.
Establish and achieve project standards for work quality and quantity.
Assess project issues and develop solutions to meet scientific, productivity, quality, and client satisfaction goals and objectives.
Research technical, financial, and organizational issues, provide recommendations, and maintain document archives.
Manage and track project budgets.
Negotiate and reconcile project resource use.
Identify and anticipate schedule slips or changes and analyze their cost and resource impacts.
Develop and implement tools, techniques, and processes that support informed decision-making within teams.
Participate in directing the evolution of projects and defining their roles.
Ensure project goals and objectives are understood by relevant functional areas.
Liaise with management, department heads, leaders, subteam or satellite team leaders, and members to obtain input and feedback on project benefits, needs, and issues.
Maintain master project plans and schedules for assigned projects.
Recommend and develop operational or process improvements that support project team performance and successful functioning.
Provide project management support to senior management and department heads as needed, including for special projects.
May manage and direct project support staff activities, conduct annual performance reviews, and provide career counseling and general guidance.
Identify or lead focus-area projects within project management or related functions.
Generate periodic updates, prepare formal presentations for required forums, and produce individual and complex reports using various resources.
Ensure project work complies with relevant domestic and potentially international regulatory requirements and approved guidelines, as well as practices, policies, and standard operating procedures.
Participate in required meetings, activities, related projects, and relevant interdepartmental activities.
Anticipate resource needs and communicate them to management sponsors.