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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of project management experience delivering complex enterprise technology initiatives.
• 7+ years of experience managing site transitions, technology transformations, infrastructure migrations, enterprise application implementations, or large-scale IT deployments.
• 5+ years of experience coordinating multiple cross-functional technical and business teams.
• 8+ years of experience in integrated project planning, dependency and RAID management, governance, executive reporting, and stakeholder management.
• 5+ years of experience with technology cutovers, infrastructure transitions, application migrations, site readiness, or operational support models.
• Strong leadership, communication, facilitation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders across multiple organizations without direct authority.
• Experience delivering complex initiatives in fast-paced enterprise transformation environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading M&A integration, divestiture, technology carve-out, or site separation programs.
• Experience managing technology transitions with ERP implementations such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar as key dependencies.
• Industry experience in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, medical devices, biotechnology, manufacturing, or other regulated environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure operations, network readiness, end-user services, identity and access management, application support, IT service management, and business continuity planning.
• Experience with enterprise PMO governance models and ITIL service management practices.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Planview, Jira, Azure DevOps, and Microsoft Office.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum Master, or equivalent project management certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the site separation program and establish its strategy, governance structure, execution roadmap, milestones, and reporting processes.
• Align technology workstreams with business objectives and enterprise program timelines.
• Develop and maintain integrated plans spanning applications, infrastructure, networks, end-user computing, identity and access management, technology services, site operations, and business continuity.
• Manage dependencies, critical paths, resources, deliverables, and readiness checkpoints across workstreams.
• Develop and coordinate cutover plans covering activity sequencing, ownership, timelines, go/no-go criteria, rollback plans, business validation, hypercare, and stabilization.
• Coordinate technical and business team readiness for a controlled transition with minimal operational disruption.
• Partner with ERP implementation teams to track milestones, assess impacts and integration risks, coordinate readiness activities, and incorporate ERP deliverables into separation and cutover plans.
• Coordinate application, infrastructure, engineering, network, security, ERP, manufacturing, business operations, enterprise architecture, PMO, site leadership, and vendor teams.
• Drive accountability and resolve competing priorities across organizations without direct reporting authority.
• Identify and manage technical and business risks, resource constraints, schedule conflicts, and readiness gaps; maintain RAID logs, escalate critical issues, and drive resolution.
• Facilitate governance meetings, steering committees, readiness reviews, cutover planning sessions, and go/no-go decisions.
• Provide executive dashboards and status reports on project health, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, budget where applicable, and cutover readiness.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications, business engagement, training, and transition planning.
• Oversee cutover execution, hypercare, issue triage, knowledge transfer, stabilization, and handover to steady-state support.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution
• Flexible spending or health savings account
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance
• 401(k) program with company match
• Additional voluntary or legally required benefits