Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. A major pharmaceutical client is hiring Global Capability Model (GCM) Project Managers to support its R&D transformation and the establishment of global development hubs. The role translates functional strategies into executable workforce, change, onboarding, and transition plans, while coordinating dependencies, risks, and implementation across global teams.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Functional GCM Leads to translate approved functional strategies and organization designs into practical execution plans
- Maintain an integrated view of functional milestones, dependencies, decisions, risks, and issues across workforce build, change, onboarding, and transition activities
- Connect functional execution with the broader GCM program and identify dependencies requiring coordination across R&D functions, GCM sites, or enterprise teams
- Ensure emerging execution issues are surfaced early, with clear options and recommendations for resolution
- Establish and operate a high-touch transition support process for functions moving work, building new teams, or implementing new operating models
- Provide a clear point of coordination for transition issues raised by functional leaders, managers, and new teams
- Triage issues quickly, connect them to the appropriate owner, and drive follow-through until resolution
- Identify recurring issues and patterns that indicate broader gaps in processes, policies, onboarding, technology, or site readiness and escalate them through the GCM program
- Partner with Functional GCM Leads, hiring managers, and local India and Poland Knowledge Transfer PM teams to prepare for successful onboarding of new employees and teams
- Coordinate functional readiness for hiring cohorts, including manager preparation, local orientation, access and tools, role onboarding, and other dependencies required for employees to become productive
- Work closely with dedicated Knowledge Transfer PMs while maintaining clear separation between overall functional implementation and detailed knowledge-transfer execution
- Ensure dependencies between hiring, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness are visible and managed
- Support Functional GCM Leads in finalizing workforce and hiring plans, including roles, locations, timing, sequencing, and hiring waves
- Maintain accurate functional demand and hiring plans and reconcile changes with Talent Acquisition, HR, and the central GCM workforce planning process
- Track progress from approved workforce demand through requisition launch, recruiting, and hiring, highlighting risks to planned timing or workforce assumptions
- Help identify practical adjustments to sequencing, role profiles, or hiring plans when market conditions or execution performance differ from assumptions
- Support development and execution of divisional and functional change and communication plans associated with GCM implementation
- Work with Functional GCM Leads, HR, and Communications to identify affected stakeholder groups, key messages, leadership engagement needs, manager support, and employee readiness activities
- Coordinate functional change activities with the broader R&D GCM narrative and site-level communications
- Track change readiness, emerging concerns, and adoption risks and ensure they are addressed through the appropriate functional or program channels
- Support development of business cases for new or evolving functional GCM designs
- Coordinate collection and analysis of workforce, cost, timing, organizational, and operational assumptions required to assess proposed designs
- Work with Functional GCM Leads, Finance, HR, and the broader GCM team to prepare materials for design reviews and investment decisions
- Maintain traceability between approved business-case assumptions and subsequent execution plans
- Serve as the primary execution partner to one or more Functional GCM Leads
- Independently lead integrated functional planning and execution
- Drive resolution of complex cross-functional dependencies and issues
- Challenge assumptions and identify gaps in functional implementation plans
- Lead development of business cases, executive materials, and decision recommendations
- Facilitate senior stakeholder discussions and drive decisions to closure
- Direct and coordinate work performed by more junior project management resources, where applicable
- Represent the functional workstream in broader GCM governance and integration discussions
- Support development and maintenance of workforce, change, onboarding, and transition plans
- Coordinate meetings, inputs, actions, decisions, and dependencies across stakeholders
- Maintain accurate execution tracking and prepare status and decision materials
- Perform analysis supporting workforce plans, business cases, and implementation decisions
- Coordinate onboarding readiness and transition support activities
- Track risks and issues and drive follow-up with responsible owners
- Escalate emerging execution concerns to the senior PM or Functional GCM Lead
Skills
- Demonstrated project or program management experience in a complex, global organization
- Ability to manage multiple interconnected workstreams with significant organizational and stakeholder dependencies
- Strong analytical skills and ability to translate strategy or organization design into practical implementation plans
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of clear executive-level materials
- Ability to work effectively with senior functional leaders as well as operational teams
- Demonstrated ability to identify risks, resolve ambiguity, and drive issues to closure
- Successful candidates will be able to move comfortably between strategy and execution
- They should be highly organized without becoming process-heavy, able to work through ambiguity, willing to challenge plans that are not executable, and effective at building relationships across functions and geographies
- They must be comfortable operating in an environment where design and execution are occurring simultaneously and where priorities, workforce assumptions, and implementation approaches will continue to evolve as the program progresses
- Experience with workforce planning, organizational transformation, change management, business-case development, or large-scale implementation preferred
- Experience within pharmaceutical R&D, life sciences, or another complex global operating environment preferred but not required
Benefits
- Remote work
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