Senior Project Manager

The role

The Senior Project Manager will develop, manage, and execute project portfolios for manufacturing sites. This role involves shaping project management processes, providing guidance to less experienced managers, and leading complex cross-functional projects.

What you will do

• Shape project management processes and standards and provide guidance to less experienced project managers.
• Engage with senior leaders, sponsors, and stakeholders to ensure alignment of projects with organizational strategy.
• Identify and mitigate risks at a portfolio level.
• Create, establish, and maintain integrated project plans in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Lead and facilitate complex cross-functional projects through all life cycle phases.
• Deliver timely, high-quality output on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Identify interdependencies, critical path and at-risk activities, and remove barriers to progress.
• Establish, monitor, and report on portfolio and project progress to senior leadership.
• Act as a subject matter expert coaching all levels of the organization in project management concepts.
• Build productive internal and external working relationships with stakeholders in a matrix organization.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, business, or other related field.
• Project Management Professional or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of industry and supervisory experience.
• At least 8 years of experience managing and leading multiple complex projects effectively and efficiently in a matrix organization.
• Ability to use predictive, agile and hybrid approaches to determine which way of working is best for each project.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, influencing, change management, and people leadership skills.
• Proactive, results oriented, self-starter with attention to detail and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced setting.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced small company environment and able to adjust workload based upon changing priorities and ability to manage ambiguity.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), Visio, and project management software including timeline visualization.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position standing or sitting for prolonged periods of time.
• Must be able to move about inside an office and exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally.
• Must have visual acuity to perform activities such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, viewing a computer screen, and extensive reading.

Nice to have

• Manufacturing experience, ideally in a Biopharmaceutical environment and/or Cell and Gene Therapy.
• Change Management / Agent Training
• Lean or Lean Six Sigma certification or training
• Proficient with Smartsheet

About the company

Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. is the global leader in innovating, developing, and delivering tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) cell therapies for patients with solid tumors. The company operates as an end-to-end cell therapy company with centralized U.S.-based manufacturing.