Commercial Project Manager -- CDMO

Padagis LLC; Town of Vernon (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Padagis is seeking a Commercial Project Manager with CDMO/CMO experience to join our Commercial Team early in 2027. You will lead customer-facing programs and drive internal CDMO initiatives across governance, processes, and tools as we scale.

This role requires coordinating with Operations across sites, managing end-to-end project plans, risks, and invoicing milestones, and ensuring a seamless transition from opportunity to execution for our pharmaceutical customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; 5+ years in pharma CDMO or regulated environment.
• Experience managing customer-facing projects, incl. tech transfers and launches.
• Strong cross-functional knowledge across Operations, Quality, Regulatory, and Supply Chain.
• Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills; attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer-facing projects as primary contact with structured updates.
• Coordinate with Minnesota and Israel sites on readiness, timelines, risks.
• Create detailed project plans covering scope, milestones, risks, and action items.
• Manage internal CDMO-build projects to improve processes, governance, tools, and operating model.
• Identify bottlenecks and mitigation plans to ensure on-time delivery.
• Support handoff from opportunity to execution with clear accountability.
• Prepare updates, logs, and trackers to improve visibility and alignment.
• Link milestones to commercial terms and coordinate invoicing with Finance.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Smartsheet

MS Projects

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Padagis is looking for a Commercial Project Manager with CDMO/CMO experience within the pharmaceutical space, or other closely regulated similar space, to join our Commercial Team early in Q1 2027.

This role is ideal for an experienced CDMO/CMO professional who thrives at the intersection of customer engagement and internal execution. In addition to managing customer-facing commercial programs, this individual will also lead a small portfolio of internal projects that help build and strengthen the CDMO function, including improvements to processes, governance, tools, and cross-functional ways of working as the business scales.

Job duties:

• Customer-facing project leadership: Act as the primary project contact for assigned CDMO/CMO customers, providing structured updates, managing expectations, and ensuring a responsive, professional experience throughout the project lifecycle. Proactively communicate, so that customers never have to chase for status updates.
• Cross-site coordination: Partner closely with Operations and site teams in both Minnesota and Israel to align on manufacturing readiness, timelines, priorities, risks, and execution across customer programs.
• End-to-end project management: Build and maintain detailed project plans covering scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and action items across launches, supply initiatives, tech transfers, and ongoing commercial activities.
• Internal CDMO build-out projects: Manage a small portfolio of internal projects that support building out CDMO processes, governance, tools, and ways of working, contributing to a more scalable, customer-centric operating model.
• Issue and risk management: Proactively identify bottlenecks, trade-offs, and execution risks, and drive mitigation plans to support on-time delivery and a strong customer experience.
• Commercial handoff and execution support: Partner with commercial leadership to ensure effective transition from signed opportunity to active execution, with clear accountability and follow-through.
• Reporting and documentation: Prepare customer updates, internal status reports, action logs, and decision trackers that improve visibility, alignment, and execution discipline.
• Milestone and invoicing coordination: Maintain clear linkage between project milestones and commercial terms; track when milestones are achieved, confirm completion with internal teams, and coordinate with Finance/Commercial so customer invoices are issued on time and aligned with the work performed.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ years of experience in project or program management within a pharmaceutical CMO/CDMO or closely related regulated manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing customer-facing projects, ideally involving tech transfers, new product introductions, commercial launches, or supply continuity efforts.
• Strong understanding of cross-functional pharma/CMO workflows (Operations, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain) and how they interact in commercial manufacturing projects.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects with clear structure, discipline, and follow-through.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence in managing discussions with external customers and senior internal stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with a high level of attention to detail.
• Proficiency in project management tools and standard office applications (Smartsheet, MS Projects, Excel, PowerPoint).

Padagis core competencies:

Since its beginning, Padagis has been undergoing the process of identifying what we believe will lead to the success of our organization in a competitive landscape. To that end, we have developed a set of five “core” competencies. We strive to bring employees on board the journey with us who exemplify these key competencies:

• Service delivery – Understand who your internal and external customers are, identify their needs, and deliver value above their expectations…
• Active collaboration – Seek opportunities to work together across teams, function, business units, and geographies to seek success…
• Demonstrate agility – Proactively identify changes in our environment and act quickly, leading or embracing change…
• Think differently – Create, develop, and implement new ideas, products, services, or processes that involve introducing something new or significantly improving something that already exists…
• Excellent execution – Achieve outstanding results in all aspects of our organization, including our culture, leadership, strategy, and processes…

About us:

At Padagis our focus is on health care products that improve people’s lives. We are a market-leading generic prescription pharmaceutical company that specializes in “extended topical” medications, like creams, foams, mousses, gels, liquids and inhalable products. It’s a great time to join our team because we have a high growth trajectory with now more than 1,300 employees across six locations in the United States and Israel.

We’ve already established a successful track record of launching first-to-file and first-to-market generic pharmaceutical products that have helped to make prescription products more affordable for patients and reduce costs for the healthcare system. Our team members work in a dynamic environment where opportunity is built on a foundation of honesty and transparency. Please consider joining our team where great things are happening and you can make a difference.