Job Description
Remote Position with the expectation of travel to client 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
- Demonstrated experience leading or supporting enterprise-scale grants management system implementations within complex, highly regulated organizations.
- Required Experience Includes:
- 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