Remote Senior PMO Manager, Portfolio & Governance

Sumitomo Pharma; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 144,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. seeks a Senior Manager, Program Management Operations to partner with PM leads and GDTs to implement governance, planning, forecasting, and portfolio visibility across development programs.

You will translate complex information into actionable insights, drive PMO process improvements, and enable operational excellence across the portfolio. This role demands business acumen, sound judgment, and cross-functional collaboration within and outside R&D.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry.
• Foundational knowledge of drug development, portfolio management, governance processes, or demonstrated ability to learn quickly.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams within an R&D environment.

Responsibilities

• Leads operational planning and execution readiness across assigned programs by partnering with Program Leads, GDTs, PMO colleagues, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate portfolio objectives into clear priorities, deliverables, and governance-ready outputs.
• 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 that identify program status, milestones, resource needs, financial implications, risks, and performance trends for leadership decision-making.
• Leads planning, forecasting, financial enablement, and resource planning activities by integrating budget, forecast, capacity, cost, and variance inputs across programs; partners with Finance and Program Leads to assess assumptions, identify implications, and ensure timely program- and portfolio-level reporting.
• Leads integrated timeline and milestone management by evaluating critical paths, dependencies, decision points, and schedule changes; proactively identifies execution risks and partners with Program Leads and GDTs to maintain aligned, decision-ready plans.
• Partners with Program Leads and GDTs to identify, assess, track, mitigate, and elevate program and portfolio risks, issues, and dependencies; implements mitigation and provides visibility for timely discussion and decision-making.
• Leads PMO onboarding and capability-building efforts by designing training materials, process guidance, and tool-adoption practices that improve consistency, adoption, and operational effectiveness across a development program.
• Drives operational innovation by identifying, prioritizing, and implementing improvements to PMO processes, reporting, tools, and governance practices that simplify ways of working and improve portfolio execution.
• Leads complex cross-functional PMO initiatives from concept through implementation, aligning stakeholders, managing dependencies, resolving issues, and delivering measurable improvements to governance, reporting, planning, or portfolio execution.

Skills

PMO governance

Portfolio management

Forecasting & budgeting

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Smartsheet

SharePoint

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Project

Navigate

Tableau

Think-Cell

Lucen

Portfolio management systems

Job description

Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. seeks a Senior Manager, Program Management Operations to partner with PM leads and GDTs to implement governance, planning, forecasting, and portfolio visibility across development programs.

You will translate complex information into actionable insights, drive PMO process improvements, and enable operational excellence across the portfolio. This role demands business acumen, sound judgment, and cross-functional collaboration within and outside R&D.