Sr Project Manager - Operations

Tolmar is hiring a Senior Project Manager to lead multiple strategic projects across its Operations organization. The role manages project planning and execution, cross-project risks and dependencies, stakeholder engagement, budgets, timelines, and implementation of project management processes while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains motivated, high performing multi-disciplinary Project Teams in a matrix environment, and functions as a project advocate
• Cultivates teamwork through leadership and identifies and escalates knowledge or skill gaps on project teams where needed
• Connects project milestones directly to overarching business goals and strategies
• Enables effective leadership/Steering Committee engagement with clear, timely communications, escalating issues with adherence to established oversight processes, formal decision-making structures, and compliance
• Facilitates and/or reports to Steering Committee meetings as needed
• Has the ability to influence leadership on complex concepts, anticipating potential objections, and supporting the adoption of a different point of view
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with customers, business partners, resource managers, and senior leadership
• Ability to lead and train teams in new process deployment, organizing, prioritizing, developing, and coaching
• Successful management and delivery of complex programs, multiple projects/workstreams; understand and be able to communicate interdependencies and conflicts between projects
• Responsible and critically aware of project milestones and on time completion of the deliverables
• Drives transparency of program workloads, finances, commitments, and expectations
• Responsible for identifying and resolving, with the assistance of management, conflict, prioritization, scheduling resources. Requests additional help and resources to support and maintain project timeline
• Responsible for identifying potential risks and issues in meeting project timelines, and work with team for effective mitigation and resolution
• Drives/Supports functions with the preparation of business cases, plans, budgets and artifacts necessary to comply with the Portfolio Management/Project Management Processes, along with supporting the overall program objectives
• Coordinates management and technical decision-making; scheduling with PMO/governance project go/no go decision meetings at agreed upon milestones
• Monitor assigned project budgets and revise project forecasts, where applicable, and inform Operations functional heads and Finance of changes
• Develop and maintain detailed Microsoft Project timelines for assigned projects for review with the Core/Sub Team(s)
• Schedule and coordinate project specific team meetings as appropriate/required. Write, distribute, and maintain team meeting agendas and minutes
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Working knowledge of cGMP, GLP, QbD and QA/QC principles and practices
• Requires specialized depth and breadth of expertise in industry, Program Management, and business acumen
• Solves complex problems with broad business impact
• Expert knowledge of project management techniques (CPM, Gantt, PERT, etc.)
• Excellent skill in effective oral and written communication
• Demonstrated problem solving skills
• Strong sense of urgency
• Keen attention to detail and highly organized
• Ability to focus on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong critical thinking
• Ability to identify and manage cross-functional and cross project impacts
• Self-motivated
• Ability to develop program strategies, integrated program & project plans, budgets and timelines, and tracking/reporting it to corporate management
• Ability to work with project & portfolio management software, MS Project (advanced user), Teams, SharePoint, Power BI, and spreadsheet data sources
• Bachelor's degree in business or scientific discipline required
• Eight or more years Project Management experience
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Master's
• AGILE Certifications