Research and Development Quality Assurance Senior Project Manager (Contract)

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Job Description:

Research and Development Quality Assurance (RDQA)

TITLE/ROLE: Senior Project Manager

AREA: RDQA Quality Analytics and Center of Excellence

GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:

The RDQA Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) is a business‑operations–focused, project‑management–driven function dedicated to supporting corporate and Quality goals. The team strengthens and scales organizational capabilities by delivering tools, systems, workflows, metrics, and data‑driven solutions that enable optimal execution, portfolio management, and strategic decision‑making across RDQA.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading multiple mid to large scale, complex projects with multiple stakeholders across several functions that improve business processes, systems, and cross‑functional operations. This role drives effectiveness, automation, standardization, harmonization, and productivity across RDQA functions. It provides both technical and strategic project management expertise to R&D sub‑functions including Compliance and Issue Management, R&D Quality Risk and Patient-Centric Ethics, R&D Vendor Quality Management, Global Clinical Quality, PV and RWE Operational Quality, and GLP Biomarkers Research (GBR).

The Senior Project Manager also delivers strong project governance, status reporting, and risk management and mitigation related to architecture, workflows, governance frameworks, reporting capabilities, and technology solutions supporting these groups.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the oversight, execution, and successful delivery of large-scale, cross-functional, and potentially multi-year initiatives that are high impact and strategically important to the organization.
• Provide strategic input and technical expertise while applying project management best practices to support functions across RDQA.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, consistency, compliance, communication, training, and effective chan...