Senior Project Manager – Research and Development, Quality Assurance
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Senior Project Manager in RDQA managing cross-functional initiatives for process improvement and project delivery. Collaborating with teams to enhance operational excellence and strategic decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the oversight, execution, and successful delivery of large-scale, cross-functional, and potentially multi-year initiatives that are high impact and strategically important to the organization
- Provide strategic input and technical expertise while applying project management best practices to support functions across RDQA
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, consistency, compliance, communication, training, and effective change management
- Manage large-scale projects and process improvement initiatives focused on operational excellence, organizational maturity, and scalable solutions
- Serve as the central communication conduit across project teams to ensure transparency, clarity, and alignment
- Identify appropriate project representatives, governance model, engagement timing, and cross-functional involvement needed for successful execution
- Conduct research, data analysis, and root cause investigations to identify process gaps, operational risks, trends, and improvement opportunities
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on medium-complexity initiatives, providing guidance on processes, systems, and analytics
- May manage, mentor and train employees and contracting staff providing administrative / coordination assistance ensuring efficient time and resource utilization
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree with a minimum of 10 – 15+ years experience in project management
- 5+ years of experience in clinical research and/or the pharmaceutical or biotech industry
- Strong ability to influence teams, facilitate decision-making, and drive progress in a collaborative environment
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with senior leadership
- Experience leading or contributing to projects using proven project management methodologies such as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Agile (SCRUM/Kanban) and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Demonstrated consultative, analytical, and forward-thinking capabilities to support innovative problem-solving and solution design
- Expertise in stakeholder engagement, business relationship management, and building productive internal and external partnerships
- Strong working knowledge of clinical and preclinical research operations, GCP, and general familiarity with GVP, GMP, GDP, and CMC frameworks
- Proficiency with communication, change management, risk management and mitigation and process mapping and process optimization methodologies
- Ability to work independently, provide transparent status updates, and escalate risks or issues appropriately
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including MS Visio, Smartsheets, OneNote, Excel, MS Project, and SharePoint
Benefits:
- Compensation, medical benefits, fringe benefits and other terms and conditions shall be presented by the third-party agency partner upon offer
- Eligible for overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements
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