Learning & Development Project Manager

Syneos Health, Inc.; Titusville (NJ); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking an experienced Learning & Development Project Manager in Titusville, NJ hybrid role. You will partner with stakeholders, vendors, and IT to deliver learning programs, onboarding initiatives, and process improvements.

Responsibilities include end-to-end project management, planning, risk management, and coordination of cross-functional teams. A Bachelor's degree plus 3+ years PM and 2+ years L&D experience are required, with Wrike proficiency and strong partnership skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s in learning preferred.
• Hybrid role requiring three days in Titusville, NJ or Horsham, PA offices.
• 3+ years of project management experience required.
• 2+ years of learning & development experience required.
• Experience with Wrike or similar project management platforms required.
• Ability to build consultative partnerships with business leaders to drive results.
• Ability to lead cross-functional work teams and manage stakeholders effectively.

Responsibilities

• Track and manage allocated budget for programs.
• Engage in demand, capability, and capacity planning.
• Lead end-to-end project management for learning programs and events.
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, deliverables, risks, and resources.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including learning architects, content developers, IT, and vendors.
• Support LMS activities including assignments, content updates, reporting, and transcript analytics.
• Enhance processes with new templates, SOPs, and centralized knowledge repositories.
• Leverage AI and productivity tools to improve efficiency and communication.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder collaboration

Budget management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s in Learning

Tools

Wrike

Job description

Updated: Today
Location: Titusville, NJ, United States
Job ID:17344

The role of Learning & Development Project Manager will work with the Learning & Development Center of Excellence and will partner with internal stakeholders, vendors, learning teams, technology partners, and business leaders to manage timelines, coordinate resources, optimize workflows, and ensure high-quality delivery of learning programs, events, onboarding initiatives, and process improvement efforts. Additionally support additional initiatives.

• Track and manage allocated budget for program
• Engage in demand, capability, and capacity planning
• Lead end-to-end project management for learning programs, training initiatives, onboarding cohorts, virtual and in-person events, and operational workstreams.
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, deliverables, stakeholder communications, risks, dependencies, and resource needs.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, including learning architects, content developers, IT, digital teams, meeting planners, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Support learning operations within LMS platforms, including training assignments, coordinating content updates, reporting, transcript analytics, and issue resolution.
• Build, refine, and optimize project management system, workflows, templates, intake processes, SOPs, job aids, and centralized knowledge repositories.
• Leverage AI and productivity tools to improve process efficiency, streamline documentation, enhance communication, and support workflow redesign.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable plans, aligned deliverables, and measurable outcomes.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks or barriers, elevate issues as needed, and drive alignment on next steps
• Engage in demand, capability, and capacity planning

Required

• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree required; Masters in Learning Preferred
• Hybrid opportunity- Requires 3 days in the Titusville, NJ or Horsham, PA office.
• 3+ years of project management experience is required
• 2+ years of learning & development experience is required
• Experience with Wrike or similar project management platforms required
• Ability to create consultative business partnerships and to collaborate with business leaders to ensure superior business results is required.
• Business experience and industry knowledge to influence company/franchise level decisions and strategies on how best to develop talent required.
• Ability to lead cross-functional work teams is required.
• Excellent project management, leadership, influence management, collaboration, organizational, and communication skills are required.

Preferred:

• Experience with curriculum maintenance preferred.
• Experience with learning delivery preferred.
• Experience evaluating learning program effectiveness preferred.
• Experience with Leadership Development L&D is preferred.

The anticipated hourly rate for this position is $58.00 to $60.00 but may vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role.

Why Syneos Health?

We partner with industry experts to solve and execute against today’s toughest commercialization challenges facing the world’s leading healthcare companies. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities on our Commercial Operations and Leadership teams. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to get biopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts are contributing to improving patients’ lives around the world.

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Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

As a Syneos Health freelance, temporary, or contract employee, you may be eligible to participate in the Company 401k match and benefits such as paid time off or benefits through provisions in the Affordable Care Act or State-specific requirements depending on the terms of your employment. Syneos Health complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements for temporary/freelance/contract employees.

Discover what our more than 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard,and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to thosewho need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improvespatients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career inwhich you’re guaranteed to:

Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients.