Sr Project Manager - Operations

Responsibilities

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading and managing multiple strategic operations projects, ensuring they meet budget, scope, and timeline requirements. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing project dependencies, and facilitating communication with stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in a business or scientific discipline and possess at least eight years of project management experience. A PMP certification is required, and candidates should have specialized expertise in operations, program management, and industry-specific regulatory practices.

Skills

• Project management
• Operations management
• Strategic planning
• Stakeholder management
• Cross-functional leadership
• Risk management
• Budgeting
• cGMP compliance
• Process optimization
• Microsoft Project
• Supply chain management
• Quality assurance
• Lifecycle management
• Business continuity
• Technology transfer
• Data analysis

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Competitive compensation

About this role

Purpose and Scope

This Senior Project Manager position, under minimal supervision, is accountable
for leading and managing multiple strategically-focused projects simultaneously.
Responsible for planning and execution in conjunction with technical leads of
strategic projects within Tolmar Operations including, but not limited to, MS&T,
Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality), while adhering to
budget, scope, timeline, and manufacturing schedule requirements. Support and
collaborate closely with Operational functions and manufacturing and packaging
CMO’s where applicable, on projects or initiatives in the areas of operational
excellence, lifecycle management, business continuity and performance, process
optimizations and remediations, and technology transfers; ensuring compliance
with all Tolmar’s cGMP, SOP’s, FDA, EH&S and DEA regulations.

This role will be responsible for identifying and managing cross-project
dependencies, critical items, risks, and issues. Sr Project Manager will
communicate at all levels of the organization and be responsible for recognizing
and engaging key stakeholders quickly and early in the process. Additionally,
will help to implement project management processes and Enterprise Program
Management Office’s (EPMO) methodologies.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Communication, Stakeholder Management, and Leadership Engagement

· 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.

Project Management

· 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.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

· 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.

Core Values

This position is expected to operate within the framework of Tolmar’s Core
Values:

· Center on People: We commit to support the well-being of our patients and
treat our employees and those we serve as valued partners. By placing people at
the heart of our actions, we actively engage, invigorate, acquire knowledge, and
grow together with an enterprise-wide mindset that lifts the whole organization.

· Are Proactive & Agile: We embody a culture of engagement and action. With a
hands-on approach, we fearlessly adapt to change. We anticipate, respond swiftly
and efficiently to ignite a spirit that propels us towards extraordinary
outcomes.

· Act Ethically: We are committed to consistently conducting our business in an
ethical, compliant, and socially aware manner, in line with our purpose of
positively impacting lives. We actively cultivate diversity, equity, inclusion &
sustainability in our workplace.

· Constantly Improve: We are committed to a pr...

About Tolmar

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing · 1,001-5,000 employees · headquartered in Fort Collins, CO · founded 2007