Remote Senior PMO Manager — Operations & Portfolio

Sumitomo Pharma; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 144,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sumitomo Pharma is seeking a Senior Manager, Program Management Operations to drive governance, planning, and portfolio execution across development programs. You will partner with PMO leads, GDTs, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure readiness and transparent program visibility.

The role emphasizes translating complex data into actionable insights, improving PMO processes, and enabling senior leadership with timely milestones, risks, and decisions. Domestic/intl travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Minimum 6 years of biotech/pharma industry experience.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams within an R&D environment.
• Strong governance, planning, and portfolio reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Leads operational planning and execution readiness across assigned programs by partnering with Program Leads, GDTs, PMO colleagues, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Drives governance readiness and decision support by shaping agendas, synthesizing stakeholder inputs, preparing decision materials, documenting outcomes, and ensuring action follow-through for key program and portfolio governance forums.
• Owns portfolio reporting and performance insights by developing and stewarding dashboards, metrics, and portfolio views for leadership decision-making.
• Leads planning, forecasting, financial enablement, and resource planning activities by integrating budget, forecast, capacity, cost, and variance inputs across programs.
• Leads integrated timeline and milestone management by evaluating critical paths, dependencies, decision points, and schedule changes.
• Partners with Program Leads and GDTs to identify, assess, track, mitigate, and elevate program and portfolio risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Leads PMO onboarding and capability-building efforts by designing training materials, process guidance, and tool-adoption practices.
• Drives operational innovation by identifying improvements to PMO processes, reporting, tools, and governance practices.

Skills

PMO governance

Portfolio reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

R&D operations knowledge

Data-driven insights

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Smartsheet

SharePoint

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Project

Navigate

Tableau

Think-Cell

Lucen

Job description

Sumitomo Pharma is seeking a Senior Manager, Program Management Operations to drive governance, planning, and portfolio execution across development programs. You will partner with PMO leads, GDTs, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure readiness and transparent program visibility.

The role emphasizes translating complex data into actionable insights, improving PMO processes, and enabling senior leadership with timely milestones, risks, and decisions. Domestic/intl travel may be required.