Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alpha Business Solutions is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to support a large-scale R&D transformation initiative within the Biopharma/Life Sciences industry. The role involves providing strategic and program management support for R&D initiatives, translating business opportunities into actionable plans, and driving them through governance and execution.
Responsibilities
- Manage the intake and progression of new R&D opportunities. Partner with Business and Technology Leads to define the business problem, opportunity, scope, expected value, technology needs, dependencies, stakeholders, and implementation considerations
- Guide teams through the development and refinement of business/value cases and supporting materials, ensuring submissions are complete, appropriately structured, and ready for leadership review and decision-making
- Support leadership in prioritizing and sequencing initiatives, identifying shared capabilities and dependencies, and maintaining alignment with broader R&D transformation objectives
- Manage initiatives through the governance and approval lifecycle, including preparation for advisory, steering committee, and leadership reviews. Coordinate materials, timelines, pre-reads, decisions, feedback, follow-ups, and required revisions
- Coordinate across technology and enabling functions to determine architecture, data, AI/ML, security, compliance, delivery, resource, and other requirements needed to progress initiatives
- Translate approved business cases into actionable delivery plans, including scope, milestones, owners, resources, dependencies, risks, governance, funding considerations, and success measures
- Drive structured handoffs from business-case development into execution, ensuring delivery teams have the necessary scope, documentation, decisions, resources, stakeholder alignment, and governance structure
- Maintain an integrated view of multiple initiatives at various stages, tracking milestones, deliverables, decisions, actions, risks, issues, dependencies, approvals, resources, and upcoming governance activities
- Proactively identify issues, cross-functional dependencies, resource constraints, decision points, and delivery risks. Drive resolution and escalate appropriately when needed
- Facilitate working sessions and governance discussions, prepare agendas and materials, capture decisions and actions, assign owners, and drive follow-through to closure
- Maintain organized project documentation, trackers, business case materials, decision logs, action items, implementation plans, and executive-level reporting
- Coordinate across R&D business leaders, technology teams, functional SMEs, program teams, and external vendors/partners, ensuring stakeholders remain aligned on responsibilities, decisions, and next steps
Skills
- 7+ years of Project/Program Management experience, preferably supporting complex enterprise initiatives
- Strong experience within Biopharma, Pharmaceutical, or Life Sciences R&D environments
- Demonstrated ability to take initiatives from initial concept/business case through governance, implementation planning, and execution
- Experience managing multiple initiatives or workstreams simultaneously within a highly matrixed organization
- Strong understanding of technology delivery and ability to effectively partner with both business and technical stakeholders
- Experience with executive-level governance, steering committees, and leadership reporting
- Strong risk, dependency, resource, and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex information into clear, executive-ready materials
- Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced environment
- Experience managing programs involving AI, data, digital transformation, or enterprise technology is highly preferred
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