Global R&D Transformation Project Manager

Us Tech Solutions; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

US Tech Solutions is embarking on a Global Capability Model transformation to establish and scale global development hubs. The Functional GCM Project Management role provides direct support to R&D Functional Leaders, translating strategies into actionable workforce, onboarding and transition plans while anticipating and mitigating issues across global functions.

Senior staff may lead the work with GCM Leads; more junior resources will assist with project management, analysis and coordination

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate strategy or organization design into practical implementation plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of clear executive-level materials.
• Ability to work effectively with senior functional leaders as well as operational teams.
• Demonstrated ability to identify risks, resolve ambiguity and drive issues to closure.

Responsibilities

• Functional GCM Execution: translate approved functional strategies and organization designs into practical execution plans.
• Maintain an integrated view of functional milestones, dependencies, decisions, risks and issues across workforce build, change, onboarding and transition activities.
• Connect functional execution with the broader GCM program and identify dependencies requiring coordination across R&D functions, GCM sites or enterprise teams.
• Ensure emerging execution issues are surfaced early, with clear options and recommendations for resolution.
• R&D HQ Transition Support and Hypercare: Establish and operate a high-touch transition support process for functions moving work, building new teams or implementing new operating models.
• Provide a clear point of coordination for transition issues raised by functional leaders, managers and new teams.
• Triage issues quickly, connect them to the appropriate owner and drive follow‑through until resolution.
• Identify recurring issues and patterns that indicate broader gaps in processes, policies, onboarding, technology or site readiness and elevate them through the GCM program.
• Onboarding and Operational Readiness: Partner with Functional GCM Leads, hiring managers and local India and Poland Knowledge Transfer PMs teams to prepare for successful onboarding of new employees and teams.
• Coordinate functional readiness for hiring cohorts, including manager preparation, local orientation, access and tools, role onboarding and other dependencies required for employees to become productive.
• Work closely with dedicated Knowledge Transfer PMs while maintaining clear separation between overall functional implementation and detailed knowledge‑transfer execution.
• Ensure dependencies between hiring, onboarding, knowledge transfer and operational readiness are visible and managed.
• Workforce and Hiring Planning: Support Functional GCM Leads in finalizing workforce and hiring plans, including roles, locations, timing, sequencing and hiring waves.
• Maintain accurate functional demand and hiring plans and reconcile changes with Talent Acquisition, HR and the central GCM workforce planning process.
• Track progress from approved workforce demand through requisition launch, recruiting and hiring, highlighting risks to planned timing or workforce assumptions.
• Help identify practical adjustments to sequencing, role profiles or hiring plans when market conditions or execution performance differ from assumptions.
• Change and Communications: Support development and execution of divisional and functional change and communication plans associated with GCM implementation.
• Work with Functional GCM Leads, HR and Communications to identify affected stakeholder groups, key messages, leadership engagement needs, manager support and employee readiness activities.
• Coordinate functional change activities with the broader R&D GCM narrative and site‑level communications.
• Track change readiness, emerging concerns and adoption risks and ensure they are addressed through the appropriate functional or program channels.
• Business Cases and Functional Design Support: Support development of business cases for new or evolving functional GCM designs.
• Coordinate collection and analysis of workforce, cost, timing, organizational and operational assumptions required to assess proposed designs.
• Work with Functional GCM Leads, Finance, HR and the broader GCM team to prepare materials for design reviews and investment decisions.
• Maintain traceability between approved business‑case assumptions and subsequent execution plans.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Job description

US Tech Solutions is embarking on a Global Capability Model transformation to establish and scale global development hubs. The Functional GCM Project Management role provides direct support to R&D Functional Leaders, translating strategies into actionable workforce, onboarding and transition plans while anticipating and mitigating issues across global functions.

Senior staff may lead the work with GCM Leads; more junior resources will assist with project management, analysis and coordination