What you will do:

The Project Manager supports the project teams, cross-functional stakeholders and the PMO for site operations managing Manufacturing Technology , Equipment , and Process , Quality , and Supply Chain related projects. The Project Manager is the primary point of contact for the project and manages all project activities including project kickoff meetings, recurring status meetings, executive sponsor meetings, reporting, and risk tracking. Work to manage resources to attain project deliverables and coordinate project communication for all stakeholders. Serve as a pro-active analytical person and help identify, document, resolve or escalate major risks and issues. Experience working with in a regulated/validated environment is required. It is important that the candidate has experience as a project manager leading complex manufacturing or quality related projects in the Biopharmaceutical industry.

– This role requires majority of time being on site in our client's central NJ location .

Job Responsibilities

• Leads planning, executing, controlling, and closing the Project to ensure the Project is delivered to scope
• Stakeholder identification and management and engagement activities (influence/impact/support)
• Ensures business objectives and project benefits are identifiable, measurable, and realized
• Meet time, cost, and quality objectives for each project
• Utilizes internal standards and methodologies to verify scope, schedule, budget, monitor and control
• Leads project team to successful delivery
• Change management strategy, planning and delivery
• Supports execution of change management strategy and plan and work breakdown
• Defines change metrics for the project and measure change effectiveness
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders to manage expectations and mitigate risk
• Facilitates leadership alignment and develops leadership action plans
• Develops project communications strategy, approach, and plan
• Measures awareness and effectiveness

Required Competencies:

• Organization — Ability to manage multiple priorities and resources in a dynamic environment across various departments and organize complex information.
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considers the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Critical Thinking — Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. Must possess initiative with strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Attitude & Teamwork– Projects confidence tempered with humility. Must be a collaborator willing both to steer the team towards success and to fully support the team when others are steering.
• Problem Sensitivity —Ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. Recognizes there is a problem and escalates or informs the resources who can address the problem.
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• GMP Experience
• Manufacturing Technology & Equipment, Manufacturing Quality
• PMP certification
• 8 to 10 years of project management experience
• Pharmaceutical experience

Highly Preferred:

• Engineering degree or equivalent experience
• MBA
• Experience/knowledge of Cell Therapy Manufacturing