Senior Project Manager – Pharma, Strategy & Business Excellence, QC Operations

Senior Project Manager – Pharma, Strategy & Business Excellence, QC Operations

Context & Initiative:

Our client is a leading global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing, and delivering innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. With a broad portfolio spanning oncology, hematology, immunology, and cardiovascular, they are committed to advancing science and ensuring reliable product supply worldwide.

Sitting within the Strategy & Business Excellence unit, this role supports the Global Product Quality organization through the Quality Control (QC) division, which is driving critical initiatives to enhance reliability, performance, and compliance across multiple sites and products. The role is designed for a proven leader who can balance tactical project execution with strategic portfolio oversight, while effectively engaging both site-level teams and senior leadership stakeholders. This includes portfolio-level ownership of the QC Reliability initiative—envisioned as an umbrella program with multiple interdependent projects (both in-flight and newly scoped) feeding into critical QC deliverables.

Duties:

· Serve as the project lead for key QC operations initiatives, ensuring both tactical execution at the site level and alignment with broader strategic goals

· Manage a portfolio of projects under the umbrella of QC Reliability, including both in-flight initiatives and new projects as they are scoped

· Provide strong boots-on-the-ground project leadership, while also translating technical and operational progress into executive-level updates

· Partner cross-functionally across QC, Operations, and Business Excellence teams to ensure seamless integration and timely project delivery

· Prepare and deliver high-quality presentations, project updates, and communications tailored to senior leadership

· Balance day-to-day tactical management with forward-looking portfolio oversight, ensuring risks, dependencies, and interconnections are identified and managed

Must Haves:

· Strong Project Management with QC operations or technical QC experience. The ability to execute strategic goals. Ability to carry out project management responsibilities such as weekly status meetings, risk mitigation, weekly status reports and financial updates. Effective communication skills. Hands on project leadership experience. Consensus building, meeting facilitation, deliverable follow up, etc.

· Proven experience operating as a senior-level project manager, balancing site-level execution with portfolio oversight.

· Ability to operate at both tactical and manage downwards as well as strategic levels — “boots on the ground” execution with executive-level presentation capability

· Strong technical understanding of QC operations or related functions (analytical, process, or quality roles)

· Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, with demonstrated ability to deliver polished updates and executive-level messaging.

· Strong portfolio management mindset, able to oversee multiple interconnected initiatives under a broader strategic program

Nice to Haves:

· Direct experience in cell therapy or biologics quality operations

· Prior experience with portfolio governance structures and reporting frameworks

· Background in Strategy & Business Excellence or Operational Excellence programs

Start and Term:

• Start: Immediate (October 2025)
• Term: Minimum 1-year contract, with strong possibility of extension as organizational initiatives evolve

Location:

Hybrid (50% onsite) at one of the following sites:

• Summit, NJ
• Lawrenceville, NJ
• New Brunswick, NJ
• Devens, MA