CMC Project Manager/Senior CMC Project Manager, Research & Development

Accountabilities

• • Lead day-to-day CMC project planning and execution, coordinating internal teams, service providers, contract manufacturers, laboratories, and other external partners.

  • Translate CMC and program strategy into integrated schedules, budgets, resource requirements, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and decision points.

  • Develop and maintain logic-linked project schedules, identify critical paths and risks, and assess the impact of changes to scope, strategy, assumptions, timelines, costs, and resources.

  • Establish clear project controls, including meeting agendas and minutes, action and decision logs, risk registers, milestone tracking, status reporting, and recovery plans.

  • Monitor project performance against approved plans and work with accountable leads to address variances, delays, resource constraints, and other execution challenges.

  • Facilitate cross-functional meetings and governance processes that promote alignment, resolve conflicts, accelerate decisions, and maintain progress.

  • Provide clear project updates and recommendations to program leadership, governance bodies, funders, and other stakeholders.

  • Manage service-provider relationships and hold partners accountable for contractual milestones, deliverables, schedules, budgets, reporting, and performance expectations.

  • Partner with Finance, functional leaders, and Earned Value Management teams to monitor budgets, forecasts, actuals, resource requirements, and variances.

  • Support prime contract and subcontractor planning and execution, including statements of work, requests for proposals, proposal evaluations, bases of estimate, and contract modifications.

  • Develop and improve project-management tools, standards, processes, and practices that strengthen transparency, communication, accountability, and execution across R&D.

  • Coordinate activities across working groups, technical teams, contract manufacturers, testing laboratories, consultants, and other stakeholders while ensuring decisions, risks, changes, and dependencies are communicated effectively.

  Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a scientific, engineering, pharmaceutical, or related discipline; an advanced degree and/or PMP certification is preferred.

  • 7+ years of relevant project management experience, particularly in Phase 2 and/or Phase 3 vaccine or biologic development.

  • Demonstrated experience planning and leading complex, multi-year, integrated product-development programs involving multiple funding partners and service providers.

  • Working knowledge of the CMC lifecycle from early development through validation, regulatory submission, and commercialization.

  • Experience developing and managing integrated schedules, critical paths, dependencies, milestones, and recovery plans.

  • Experience managing external service providers, including CDMOs, CROs, testing laboratories, and other technical partners.

  • Experience with contractually rigorous planning, forecasting, reporting, and stakeholder management; U.S. Government or other funding-partner experience is strongly preferred.

  • Advanced proficiency with MS Project and Smartsheet, along with experience using Microsoft 365 tools such as Teams and SharePoint.

  • Experience with pharmaceutical industry governance practices, Earned Value Management, and project controls.

  • Strong ability to operate in a matrixed environment, establish accountability, and influence internal teams and external providers without relying solely on direct authority.

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to provide concise updates, facilitate collaboration, and adapt to changing priorities.

  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage complex tasks, competing demands, deadlines, and multiple workstreams.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to process information quickly, listen to feedback, and adjust plans or actions accordingly.

  • Ability and willingness to travel approximately 10–20% domestically and internationally with advance notice.

  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without employer-sponsored visa support.

  • Employment is subject to a criminal background investigation, education/degree verification, and provision of three professional references.

  Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $108,000–$164,000, with actual compensation based on skills, experience, training, certifications, and education.

  • Fully remote work within the United States.

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

  • Flexible spending accounts.

  • Flexible vacation leave and sick leave.

  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.

  • 10 federal holidays plus an end-of-year winter break.

  • Employer-matching 401(k) retirement plan.

  • Opportunity to contribute to vaccine development and broader immunization initiatives.

  • Collaborative, mission-driven environment focused on accountability, teamwork, partnership, and professional growth.

  • No visa sponsorship is available for this position.