Project Manager

ACL Digital is seeking a Project Manager for their Grants Management initiative, which involves implementing an enterprise-wide grants management system. The role requires strong collaboration with IT and business stakeholders, as well as managing project plans, business requirements, and change management strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Proven ability to co‑lead implementation efforts in partnership with IT and key business leads
• Strong collaboration skills with IT project managers, business analysts, system integrators, and other key business stakeholders, including coordination across U.S. and ex-U.S. teams
• Advanced cross‑functional project management capability across Corporate Social Responsibility programming (e.g., Grants, Sponsorships, Foundation, FOCUS, Medical Affairs giving, IT, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, etc.)
• Direct vendor‑facing experience including ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and IT project managers on requirements translation, solution design validation, configuration oversight, issue escalation, and milestone governance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts into business‑ready language
• Demonstrated experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare philanthropy programs, both U.S. and ex‑U.S
• Own the integrated business project plan including milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decision points across CSR, IT, Finance, and vendors
• Operate within the Legal, Compliance, & Corporate Responsibility (LCCR) project management governance standards, including status reporting, RAID tracking (risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies), escalations, and participation in steering forums
• Serve as a primary coordination point between business readiness activities and IT delivery timelines
• Validate business requirements definition, ensuring alignment on scope, assumptions and success criteria with all involved stakeholders
• Partner with IT business analysts and system integrators to ensure accurate translation of business requirements into system design, configuration, and integrations
• Maintain requirements traceability across design, build, testing, and go-live to ensure business outcomes are met within specified timelines
• Facilitate business review and sign-off of requirements, solution designs, and key configuration decisions
• Experience partnering with various stakeholders in a matrixed environment to support enterprise alignment on vision, objectives, timelines, and change impacts
• Experience developing and executing change management strategies including stakeholder mapping, readiness assessments, training coordination, and adoption tracking
• Demonstrated ability to prepare executive‑level updates, project risk summaries, and decision briefs
• Accountable for change and communications execution, including stakeholder-specific messaging, senior-level talking points, and adoption measurement
• Define and coordinate role-based training approaches, including global rollout considerations and measurement of training effectiveness
• Experience in financial reporting related to grants and philanthropic funding
• Familiarity with grant impact data, performance metrics, and outcome reporting
• Experience supporting audit readiness, compliance controls, and documentation
• Experience coordinating data governance and data quality, including data ownership, validation rules and post-go-live stewardship
• Systems integration awareness (finance, procurement, compliance, contract management)
• Experience supporting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integrated implementations, including financial systems (e.g., SAP), with an understanding of grants-to-ERP data flows, vendor master data, cost centers, GL postings, and reconciliation considerations
• Data migration and validation oversight
• Process design and standardization across the grant’s lifecycle
• Risk, issue, and dependency management
• Post‑go‑live stabilization and transition to steady‑state operations
• Support development of business, strategy, and operations functions including SOPs, governance models, and KPI frameworks

Requirements:

• 10+ years of related experience
• Min Bachelor's Degree
• Proven ability to co‑lead implementation efforts in partnership with IT and key business leads
• Strong collaboration skills with IT project managers, business analysts, system integrators, and other key business stakeholders, including coordination across U.S. and ex-U.S. teams
• Advanced cross‑functional project management capability across Corporate Social Responsibility programming (e.g., Grants, Sponsorships, Foundation, FOCUS, Medical Affairs giving, IT, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, etc.)
• Direct vendor‑facing experience including ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and IT project managers on requirements translation, solution design validation, configuration oversight, issue escalation, and milestone governance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts into business‑ready language
• Own the integrated business project plan including milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decision points across CSR, IT, Finance, and vendors
• Operate within the Legal, Compliance, & Corporate Responsibility (LCCR) project management governance standards, including status reporting, RAID tracking (risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies), escalations, and participation in steering forums
• Serve as a primary coordination point between business readiness activities and IT delivery timelines
• Validate business requirements definition, ensuring alignment on scope, assumptions and success criteria with all involved stakeholders
• Partner with IT business analysts and system integrators to ensure accurate translation of business requirements into system design, configuration, and integrations
• Maintain requirements traceability across design, build, testing, and go-live to ensure business outcomes are met within specified timelines
• Facilitate business review and sign-off of requirements, solution designs, and key configuration decisions
• Experience partnering with various stakeholders in a matrixed environment to support enterprise alignment on vision, objectives, timelines, and change impacts
• Experience developing and executing change management strategies including stakeholder mapping, readiness assessments, training coordination, and adoption tracking
• Demonstrated ability to prepare executive‑level updates, project risk summaries, and decision briefs
• Accountable for change and communications execution, including stakeholder-specific messaging, senior-level talking points, and adoption measurement
• Define and coordinate role-based training approaches, including global rollout considerations and measurement of training effectiveness
• Experience in financial reporting related to grants and philanthropic funding
• Familiarity with grant impact data, performance metrics, and outcome reporting
• Experience supporting audit readiness, compliance controls, and documentation
• Experience coordinating data governance and data quality, including data ownership, validation rules and post-go-live stewardship
• Support development of business, strategy, and operations functions including SOPs, governance models, and KPI frameworks
• Masters preferred
• Experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare philanthropy programs, both U.S. and ex‑U.S
• Systems integration awareness (finance, procurement, compliance, contract management)
• Experience supporting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integrated implementations, including financial systems (e.g., SAP), with an understanding of grants-to-ERP data flows, vendor master data, cost centers, GL postings, and reconciliation considerations
• Data migration and validation oversight
• Process design and standardization across the grant's lifecycle
• Risk, issue, and dependency management
• Post‑go‑live stabilization and transition to steady‑state operations