Project Manager # 26-26611

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

• Position Summary: R&D is establishing and scaling global development hubs in India and Poland as part of its Global Capability Model (GCM) transformation. The program is building new R&D capabilities while simultaneously redesigning how work is organized, where capabilities are located, and how teams operate across the global R&D network.
• The Functional GCM Project Management role will provide dedicated execution support to one or more R&D Functional Leaders. The role will help translate functional strategies and designs into executable workforce, change, onboarding and transition plans and ensure that issues are identified and resolved before they disrupt implementation.
• This is a hands‑on role requiring strong project management, structured problem solving and the ability to work across global functions, HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, local site teams and other GCM workstreams.
• The role may be filled at different levels of seniority. Senior resources will lead the work with Functional GCM Leads and independently drive cross‑functional execution. More junior resources will provide project management, analysis and coordination support within the same areas of responsibility.

Duration: 6 months
Job Description:

• Position Summary: R&D is establishing and scaling global development hubs in India and Poland as part of its Global Capability Model (GCM) transformation. The program is building new R&D capabilities while simultaneously redesigning how work is organized, where capabilities are located, and how teams operate across the global R&D network.
• The Functional GCM Project Management role will provide dedicated execution support to one or more R&D Functional Leaders. The role will help translate functional strategies and designs into executable workforce, change, onboarding and transition plans and ensure that issues are identified and resolved before they disrupt implementation.
• This is a hands‑on role requiring strong project management, structured problem solving and the ability to work across global functions, HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, local site teams and other GCM workstreams.
• The role may be filled at different levels of seniority. Senior resources will lead the work with Functional GCM Leads and independently drive cross‑functional execution. More junior resources will provide project management, analysis and coordination support within the same areas of responsibility.

Experience:

• Demonstrated project or program management experience in a complex, global organization.
• Ability to manage multiple interconnected workstreams with significant organizational and stakeholder dependencies.
• Experience with workforce planning, organizational transformation, change management, business‑case development or large‑scale implementation preferred.
• Experience within pharmaceutical R&D, life sciences or another complex global operating environment preferred but not required.

Responsibilities:

• Functional GCM Execution: Partner with Functional GCM Leads to 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.
• The objective is not simply to track issues, but to remove friction and reduce execution risk during periods of significant organizational change.
• 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.

Skillsets:

• 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.

Additional Qualifications:

• Critical Capabilities: Successful candidates will be able to move comfortably between strategy and execution. They should be highly organized without becoming process‑heavy, able to work through ambiguity, willing to challenge plans that are not executable, and effective at building relationships across functions and geographies.
• They must be comfortable operating in an environment where design and execution are occurring simultaneously and where priorities, workforce assumptions and implementation approaches will continue to evolve as the program progresses.

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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