Senior Pharmaceutical Project Manager

Description

The company is a global maker of smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings.

This role is the day-to-day project lead for validated environment and laboratory construction projects across a campus, such as cleanrooms, biosafety cabinets, containment suites, biocontainment labs, and related utilities.

You will report to the Project Executive and work with Engineering, QA/Validation, Delivery, Sponsors, and regional leadership to deliver projects within a validated-state framework, with a focus on operational excellence, compliance, and both tactical and financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Plan, run, monitor, and close validated environment projects across multiple sites, making sure IQ/OQ/PQ, equipment qualification, data integrity, and regulatory expectations are met.
• Act as the on-site, day-to-day project lead, coordinating owners, architects, engineers, QA/Validation, contractors, and vendors to meet project goals within validated-state constraints.
• With the Project Executive, set and maintain project scope, schedule, and budget baselines, track progress, and report any deviations.
• Develop and carry out validation strategies and documents, including validation plans and commissioning and qualification activities, in line with corporate validation policy.
• Find, assess, and reduce project risks that could affect deliverables, schedule, budget, data integrity, or compliance, and escalate them with proposed fixes.
• Report project performance to the Project Executive, covering schedule, budget, risk, QA/validation progress, and regulatory readiness.
• Manage change orders, delays, procurement, and contract administration for your projects, keeping them aligned with validated baselines and contract terms.
• Update all logs at least weekly, and manage all documentation to Solution Navigator standards.
• Keep documentation controls strong enough to meet contract, QA, and regulatory standards and to support inspections, covering validation protocols, IQ/OQ/PQ records, SOP alignment, and QA approvals.
• Look for ways to improve validation workflows, data integrity practices, and delivery quality to raise client satisfaction.
• Build and keep relationships with sponsors and stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor on validated-environment delivery and compliance.
• Manage vendor and subcontractor performance on your projects, select qualified partners, and keep them on schedule and aligned with objectives.
• Manage project finances for your assignment, including budgeting, forecasting, progress billings, and payables, in line with project baselines.
• Prepare the project team for regulatory inspections and audits through thorough documentation and traceability.
• Foster a safe, compliant, and collaborative project environment, and guide junior team members as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in construction, civil, mechanical, electrical engineering, construction management, business management, architecture, or a related field.
• 5, 10 years of direct project management experience on large capital projects, including regulated or validated settings, typically in the $5, $20M range. Portfolio responsibility is not required.
• Proven record delivering complex, multi-site projects in validated environments (GMP/GLP/ISO 17025) in labs, biopharma, pharmaceutical manufacturing, medical devices, healthcare, or related sectors.
• Understanding of contract language, project accounting, and basic portfolio management as they apply to validated environments.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to present to senior leaders and varied stakeholder groups and to influence across functions.
• Ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams of owners, architects, engineers, QA/Validation, and contractors in regulated settings.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6, MS Project, and reporting platforms, plus advanced MS Office skills to build executive-level dashboards and presentations.
• Working knowledge of validation concepts, commissioning and qualification processes, data integrity best practices, and regulatory expectations for validated facilities.
• Ability to build and maintain professional relationships with key stakeholders and subcontractors in validated environments.
• Willingness to travel and work across multiple sites as needed.
• Preferred: Master's degree.
• Preferred: PMI certification (PMP) or equivalent.
• Preferred: Certifications or hands-on experience in CQV, CSV awareness, and familiarity with FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, and related regulatory frameworks.
• Preferred: Specific experience delivering validated environments such as GMP/GLP labs, ISO 14644 cleanrooms, ISO 17025 laboratories, or similar.
• Preferred: Experience on programs in datacenter-adjacent facilities that require strict validation regimes.
• Preferred: Demonstrated contribution to continuous improvement programs for validation processes and data integrity across a project portfolio.

Conditions

This position reports to the Project Executive and may supervise project coordinators or junior team members as part of the assigned project team.

Salary range: $95,000.00 to $130,000.00 USD per year, set by education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and market data.

Equal-opportunity note omitted from this rewrite.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and a comprehensive bonus program.
• Three weeks of paid vacation per calendar year, plus holidays, sick time, and three PTO days per calendar year.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401K plan, and benefits available from day one.
• Broad product training and on-the-job and cross-training opportunities.
• A supportive, collaborative team.
• Commitment to safety under a Zero Harm policy.
• Scheduling and management support.
• Employee discount programs through The Loop by Perk Spot.