Project Manager - III

Position Title: Project Manager - III

Work Location: Remote

Assignment Duration: 18 months

Work Schedule: Travel within the US as needed.

Position Summary

Remote Position with the expectation of travel to The Organization sites as needed. Candidates should be open to travel within the US.

Senior Project Management

Job Description

Enterprise?Wide Grants Management System Implementation

Core Implementation Experience

Experience Requirement:

10+ years of related experience

Education Requirement:

Min Bachelor's Degree; Masters preferred

Required Experience Includes:

* Demonstrated experience leading or supporting enterprise?scale grants management system implementations within complex, highly regulated organizations.

* Proven ability to co?lead implementation efforts in partnership with IT and key business leads.

* Strong collaboration skills with IT project managers, business analysts, system integrators, and other key business stakeholders, including coordination across U.S. and ex-U.S. teams.

* Advanced cross?functional project management capability across Corporate Social Responsibility programming (e.g., Grants, Sponsorships, Foundation, FOCUS, Medical Affairs giving, IT, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, etc.)

* Direct vendor?facing experience including ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and IT project managers on requirements translation, solution design validation, configuration oversight, issue escalation, and milestone governance

* Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts into business?ready language.

* Demonstrated experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare philanthropy programs, both U.S. and ex?U.S.

Project Ownership & Alignment

* Own the integrated business project plan including milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decision points across CSR, IT, Finance, and vendors.

* Operate within the Legal, Compliance, & Corporate Responsibility (LCCR) project management governance standards, including status reporting, RAID tracking (risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies), escalations, and participation in steering forums.

* Serve as a primary coordination point between business readiness activities and IT delivery timelines.

Business Requirements & Solution Validation

* Validate business requirements definition, ensuring alignment on scope, assumptions and success criteria with all involved stakeholders.

* Partner with IT business analysts and system integrators to ensure accurate translation of business requirements into system design, configuration, and integrations.

* Maintain requirements traceability across design, build, testing, and go-live to ensure business outcomes are met within specified timelines.

* Facilitate business review and sign-off of requirements, solution designs, and key configuration decisions.

Change Management & Organizational Readiness

* Experience partnering with various stakeholders in a matrixed environment to support enterprise alignment on vision, objectives, timelines, and change impacts.

* Experience developing and executing change management strategies including stakeholder mapping, readiness assessments, training coordination, and adoption tracking.

* Demonstrated ability to prepare executive?level updates, project risk summaries, and decision briefs.

* Accountable for change and communications execution, including stakeholder-specific messaging, senior-level talking points, and adoption measurement.

* Define and coordinate role-based training approaches, including global rollout considerations and measurement of training effectiveness.

Reporting, Data & Controls

* Experience in financial reporting related to grants and philanthropic funding.

* Familiarity with grant impact data, performance metrics, and outcome reporting.

* Experience supporting audit readiness, compliance controls, and documentation.

* Experience coordinating data governance and data quality, including data ownership, validation rules and post-go-live stewardship

Additional Highly Valued Skillsets

* Systems integration awareness (finance, procurement, compliance, contract management).

* Experience supporting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integrated implementations, including financial systems (e.g., SAP), with an understanding of grants-to-ERP data flows, vendor master data, cost centers, GL postings, and reconciliation considerations

* Data migration and validation oversight.

* Process design and standardization across the grant's lifecycle.

* Risk, issue, and dependency management.

* Post?go?live stabilization and transition to steady?state operations.

Other Duties as Assigned

* Support development of business, strategy, and operations functions including SOPs, governance models, and KPI frameworks