Project Manager – Pharma

MAK Technologies LLC is seeking a senior IT Project Manager to deliver complex, cross-functional technology initiatives in pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or related regulated environments. The role leads project planning and execution, global stakeholder coordination, governance and risk management, financial and vendor oversight, and compliance-aligned delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, enterprise-level IT and business technology projects across a global portfolio
• Quickly assess project status, scope, stakeholders, dependencies, risks, milestones, and outstanding decisions when joining an existing initiative
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering scope, schedule, resources, budget, risks, dependencies, quality, and business readiness
• Drive projects from initiation and planning through execution, deployment, transition, and closure
• Manage multiple concurrent projects or workstreams with competing priorities
• Proactively identify delivery challenges and develop practical recovery and mitigation plans
• Ensure milestones, deliverables, and commitments are completed according to agreed timelines and quality expectations
• Work effectively across a complex, global, matrixed organization involving business, IT, vendors, and external partners
• Coordinate geographically distributed teams across multiple functions and time zones
• Build strong working relationships with business sponsors, IT leadership, functional teams, technical teams, and third-party vendors
• Facilitate project meetings, workshops, governance forums, and executive steering committee discussions
• Drive accountability by ensuring actions, decisions, risks, and dependencies have clear owners and due dates
• Communicate project status, risks, issues, decisions, and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders
• Establish and maintain appropriate project governance and reporting structures
• Maintain RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs, dependency trackers, project schedules, and status reports
• Identify cross-project and cross-functional dependencies and proactively drive them to resolution
• Escalate critical risks, resource constraints, scope issues, and decision requirements at the appropriate time
• Ensure project documentation is accurate, current, and audit-ready
• Support portfolio-level reporting and provide concise executive-level project updates
• Support project budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and financial tracking
• Monitor project spend against approved budgets and investigate variances
• Manage external vendors and implementation partners to ensure delivery against contractual commitments
• Track vendor deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and SOW obligations
• Coordinate internal and external resources to maintain project delivery momentum
• Manage technology initiatives within Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, or Medical Device environments
• Understand the importance of quality, compliance, documentation, validation, data integrity, and change control within regulated environments
• Partner effectively with business, quality, regulatory, security, infrastructure, application, data, and other technology teams
• Ensure project execution aligns with applicable organizational governance and regulated-industry requirements

Requirements:

• 10+ years of IT project/program management experience, with significant experience leading complex enterprise technology initiatives
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience working within Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, or Medical Devices
• 5+ years of proven ability to independently manage complex projects involving multiple workstreams, stakeholders, vendors, and dependencies
• Experience operating within large global and matrixed organizations
• 5+ years of Strong experience with project planning, scheduling, RAID management, dependency management, financial tracking, resource planning, and executive reporting
• Experience coordinating globally distributed teams across business and IT functions
• Strong vendor and third-party management experience
• Demonstrated ability to join an existing project, rapidly understand the landscape, identify delivery gaps, and add value from day one
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, negotiation, and escalation skills
• Ability to manage ambiguity, changing priorities, and multiple concurrent initiatives
• Strong proficiency with standard project management and reporting tools
• PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent project/program management certification
• Experience working in a regulated GxP/GMP environment
• Familiarity with CSV/CSA, 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 5, data integrity, or regulated IT delivery practices
• Experience with enterprise transformation, application implementation, infrastructure, cloud, ERP, data, digital transformation, M&A/integration, or application transition programs
• Experience managing global projects involving teams across North America, Europe, and APAC
• Experience presenting project status, risks, financials, and recommendations to senior/executive leadership