Job Description
• Manage critical Global Quality Laboratory Transformation Initiatives, activities, and budgets
• Work with internal and external stakeholders across cross-functional groups at regional and global levels
• Integrate complex workstream plans across multiple functions and external entities
• Resolve conflicts and make trade-offs among competing interests and priorities
• Facilitate joint meetings with alliance counterparts
• Coordinate stakeholder communications and participate in execution and governance meetings
• Ensure budget accountability and transparency with stakeholders and governance
• Track activity timing, anticipated risks, mitigation, and conflict resolutions
• Lead and contribute to process-improvement initiatives
• Promote operational excellence across activities and projects
• Plan, orchestrate, and support business initiatives
• Support projects involving multiple internal and external stakeholders, including budget planning, meeting planning, and agendas/minutes
• Track and support multiple work streams across functional areas and companies
• Lead Microsoft Teams community stewardship
• Execute communication plans aligned with business objectives, project timelines, and stakeholder needs
• Engage leadership to understand goals and performance needs and develop aligned ways of working
• Routinely engage stakeholders to ensure solutions support desired outcomes
Requirements
• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing / Quality Environment
• Understanding of regulatory compliance, FDA/EMA inspection readiness, LIMS/ELN systems, and lab instrumentation
• Minimum of 5 years of project-management experience
• Experience planning, coordinating, and facilitating executive-level meetings internally and externally
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to influence and negotiate among teams and individuals with competing priorities
• Ability to independently handle multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Experience working independently and as part of a team
• Ability to quickly learn new subject areas and environments
• Self-motivation, flexibility, resourcefulness, problem-solving ability, and passion for science
• Outstanding Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams skills
• Ability to apply approaches, tools, and techniques for constructive collaboration
• Advanced verbal, written, and presentation abilities
• Ability to use broad methods, assumptions, frameworks, and perspectives in problem-solving and decision-making
• Tactical and strategic project-planning and project-management experience
• Willingness to promote collaboration across countries and regions
• Alliance project-management experience preferred
• Experience leading large, complex multi-stakeholder projects preferred
• Vendor-management and budget-planning experience preferred
• No visa sponsorship
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in managing Global Quality Laboratory Transformation Initiatives, with a strong focus on regulatory compliance, project management, and stakeholder engagement. Proven ability to lead complex multi-stakeholder projects while promoting operational excellence and effective communication.
Highest-signal resume keywords
• Project Management
• Regulatory Compliance
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Budget Planning
• Process Improvement
ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills
• Project Management
• Regulatory Compliance
• LIMS Systems
• ELN Systems
• Lab Instrumentation
• Tactical Project Planning
• Strategic Project Planning
• Vendor Management
• Budget Accountability
• Conflict Resolution
Soft Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Communication Skills
• Negotiation Skills
• Problem-Solving Ability
• Self-Motivation
Industry Keywords
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• Quality Environment
• FDA Inspection Readiness
• EMA Inspection Readiness
• Multi-Stakeholder Projects
Tools & Technologies
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Power Point
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Teams