Salary
💰 $108,000 - $164,000 per year
About the role
- Position Summary: As a CMC Project Manager within R&D, you will lead project teams and drive the initiation, planning, and execution of CMC activities across all phases of vaccine development.
- Lead and integrate cross-functional project teams, vendors, consultants, and external stakeholders ensuring deliverables are achieved and aligned with development program timelines and milestones.
- Manage project budgets, schedules, risk, and governance; partner with Finance and EVMS to monitor forecast vs actuals and support variance analysis.
- Facilitate tech transfer planning and lifecycle management; support post-approval CMC changes and lifecycle management.
- Partner with CMC functional leads to facilitate strategic planning, coordination, and integration across sub teams, vendors, and contractors; ensure alignment with program timelines and regulatory milestones.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field; advanced degree and/or PMP certification preferred
- 7+ years of relevant experience in project and program management; demonstrated skills and experience in planning and leading complex, multi-year, integrated vaccine/biologic product development programs with multiple funding partners and vendors
- Experience managing third-party vendors, including CDMOs, CROs, and testing laboratories
- Experience implementing monitoring and evaluation tools
- Experience with Governance practices within pharmaceutical industry
- Experience with Earned Value Management and project controls of vaccine/biologic project and program schedules and budgets
- Advanced experience using MS Project, Smartsheet, and/or other project management tools
- Advanced experience using Microsoft 365 applications, including MS Teams and SharePoint
- Ability to work across the organization and build strong relationships with colleagues; strong communication and interpersonal skills; flexible and optimistic
- Ability to travel approximately 10-20% domestically and internationally with notice
- Subject to a criminal background investigation
- Verification of education/degrees; three professional references