Program Manager - Eye Care

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Pay Range: $65 to $75 an hour.

Client Industry: Pharmaceutical

Job Mode: Onsite

Duration: 12 Months Contract, with potential extension based on performance and business

Job Summary:

The Program Manager will lead cross functional initiatives across technical, manufacturing, operational, and business functions within an eye care environment. The role is responsible for developing integrated project plans, coordinating multiple workstreams, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring timely execution of project deliverables. The individual will collaborate with stakeholders across Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Engineering, Technical Operations, Packaging, and Finance. Success requires strong leadership in a matrix environment, effective communication with senior leadership, and the ability to balance project timelines, resources, costs, and business priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, milestones, critical paths, and resource plans.


• Coordinate cross functional teams and maintain alignment across technical, manufacturing, operational, and business workstreams.


• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks while monitoring dependencies, timelines, deliverables, and potential roadblocks.


• Manage changes to project scope, schedules, resources, assumptions, and priorities while ensuring stakeholder alignment.


• Prioritize competing initiatives and coordinate resources to support successful project execution.


• Monitor project financials, budgets, costs, and business impacts to support informed decision making.


• Prepare and communicate project updates, risks, progress reports, and key decisions to stakeholders and senior leadership.

Required Qualifications:

• 8 to 10 years of project management experience.


• Strong experience in project planning, scheduling, milestone tracking, critical path management, and resource planning.


• Demonstrated expertise in stakeholder management, risk identification, mitigation, and dependency management.


• Proven ability to lead cross functional teams and influence stakeholders within a matrix organization.


• Experience managing multiple projects, competing priorities, and changes to project scope and schedules.


• Strong financial and business acumen with the ability to evaluate project costs and business considerations.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including senior leadership reporting.


• Practical proficiency with MS Project or Smartsheet and common office productivity tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in plant operations or manufacturing environments.


• Technical educational background in Engineering, Chemistry, or Industrial Pharmacy.


• Knowledge of project accounting and cost accounting.


• Experience using Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, Loop, SharePoint, and Copilot.


• Demonstrated ability to influence cross functional teams without direct reporting authority.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, (paid time , paid sick and safe time , hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, paid holidays annually - AS Applicable)