Senior Project Manager

Project Manager Senior

Location: Onsite - Thousand Oaks, CA

Employment Type: Contingent Worker (Contract, W2)

Contract Length: 18 months (possible extension)

Compensation: $52/$59 per hour (based on experience)

Summary of the Role

Join a large biotech pharmaceutical leader as a Senior Project Manager supporting deviation management activities across a major Combination Product Organization.

This role provides centralized project management support for deviations, coordinating cross-functional teams across Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, and other business functions to ensure investigations, corrective actions, and quality records progress efficiently and meet established deadlines.

The ideal candidate brings strong project management experience, familiarity with deviations and quality systems, excellent stakeholder coordination skills, and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a regulated environment.

This is a project coordination and execution role, not a technical deviation investigator position. The Senior Project Manager will not serve as the deviation owner but will ensure that responsible teams remain aligned, accountable, and on schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide centralized project management support for deviations from initiation through investigation, action completion, and record closure
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, and related functions
• Assign and track team activities, clarify ownership, and ensure timely completion of commitments
• Monitor daily project progress and identify resource needs, risks, and potential delays
• Support quality reviews and escalate functional, quality, or timeline issues appropriately
• Track deviation milestones, due dates, aging records, overdue actions, and extension requirements
• Maintain deviation trackers, dashboards, action logs, project plans, and reporting tools
• Facilitate deviation review meetings, working sessions, and leadership updates
• Coordinate communication across impacted business areas, including scope, budget, risks, and resource requirements
• Support prioritization based on compliance risk, product impact, and organizational commitments
• Adjust project plans and resource coordination to address changing priorities and deadlines
• Maintain organized documentation of meetings, decisions, action items, and supporting records
• Drive accountability and cross-functional alignment to support timely deviation closure

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities, dependencies, and deadlines
• Strong project management skills, including planning, scheduling, milestone tracking, risk management, and execution
• Experience supporting deviations, nonconformances, investigations, CAPAs, change controls, or other quality system records
• Familiarity with electronic Quality Management Systems (eQMS)
• Experience using project management tools, trackers, dashboards, or data visualization platforms
• Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder coordination skills
• Ability to work effectively with Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, and other operational teams
• Strong organizational skills with excellent attention to detail
• Experience monitoring deadlines, action items, quality records, and project deliverables
• Ability to prepare clear status updates and communicate project progress to leadership
• Strong meeting facilitation skills and ability to lead focused working sessions
• Ability to identify issues, escalate concerns, and maintain momentum across multiple workstreams

Preferred:

• Experience supporting root cause investigations

Top 3 Must Have Skills

1. Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities, dependencies, and deadlines
2. Experience supporting deviations, nonconformances, investigations, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), change controls, or other quality system records
3. Experience using electronic Quality Management Systems and project management or data visualization tools

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Assemble and maintain complex project plans, schedules, milestones, and team assignments
• Coordinate deviation-related activities across Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, and other stakeholders
• Monitor daily project activities and identify resource needs or potential roadblocks
• Track deviation progress, aging records, due dates, overdue actions, and extension requests
• Maintain deviation trackers, dashboards, reporting tools, and action logs
• Facilitate deviation review meetings, working sessions, and leadership updates
• Clarify deliverable ownership and follow up with responsible teams to ensure timely execution
• Support prioritization based on compliance risk, product impact, and deadlines
• Escalate unresolved issues, schedule delays, and resource constraints
• Maintain accurate records of project decisions, actions, and supporting documentation
• Provide clear and timely project status updates to stakeholders and leadership

Ready to lead cross-functional deviation management activities, strengthen project execution, and support quality system compliance for a global biotech organization? Apply today.

This is a W2 contract opportunity only. No C2C, 1099, or third-party vendor submissions. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.