Senior R&D Program Lead

Project Management Institute, Inc.; Horsham (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Project Management Institute, Inc. in Horsham, PA seeks an experienced R&D Program Manager responsible for end-to-end program management and cross-functional coordination of complex R&D and enterprise initiatives.

This role leads planning, readiness, deployment, and adoption from concept through implementation and transition into routine operations. Within R&D, the position owns the overall management of new test and service initiatives across their full lifecycle, ensuring alignment

Qualifications

• Lead large, complex programs spanning multiple interconnected initiatives from planning through implementation and adoption.
• Strong program and project planning, risk management, issue resolution, resource management, and dependency management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic objectives with tactical execution.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives, interdependencies, and competing priorities.
• Experience leading cross-functional implementation and organizational change initiatives.
• Ability to coordinate training, communications, stakeholder engagement, and adoption planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio planning, prioritization, and resource alignment across the R&D portfolio.
• Own overall management and cross-functional coordination of new R&D test and service initiatives from scoping through development, validation, operational readiness, launch, and transition into routine operations.
• Lead launch of new tests and services, including regulatory approvals, business and operational setup, laboratory implementation, training coordination, stakeholder communications, and client-facing rollout activities.
• Maintain alignment among R&D, Laboratory Operations, Quality, Client Services, IT, Finance, and executive leadership, including cross-functional dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and organizational impacts.
• Monitor implementation and post-launch activities to ensure successful transition into routine operations and achievement of intended business outcomes.
• As capacity allows, lead enterprise business initiatives spanning Finance, Client Services, Quality, Toxicology, Commercial Operations, and other functions.
• Develop and maintain program plans, implementation plans, readiness assessments, project documentation, status reports, and executive communications.
• Identify cross-functional risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and organizational impacts; develop mitigation plans.
• Support business case development, initiative prioritization, resource planning, governance, and executive decision-making.

Skills

Program leadership

Project leadership

Risk management

Resource management

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Portfolio management

Communication

Data analysis

Tools

Jira

SharePoint

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Word

Job description

Project Management Institute, Inc. in Horsham, PA seeks an experienced R&D Program Manager responsible for end-to-end program management and cross-functional coordination of complex R&D and enterprise initiatives.

This role leads planning, readiness, deployment, and adoption from concept through implementation and transition into routine operations. Within R&D, the position owns the overall management of new test and service initiatives across their full lifecycle, ensuring alignment