Job Details
Posted 1 May, 2026
Job Id: 627519
Project Manager – III
Job Description
Demonstrated experience leading or supporting enterprise scale grants management system implementations within complex, highly regulated organizations.
Required Experience Includes:
* Proven ability to colead 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 exU.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 executivelevel 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 grants lifecycle.
* Risk, issue, and dependency management.
* Post golive stabilization and transition to steadystate operations.
Other Duties as Assigned
* Support development of business, strategy, and operations functions including SOPs, governance models, and KPI frameworks
Pay ranges between 63-73/hr based on experience
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