Job Description

**Job Title: Project Manager – CGT Development & Structured Data Capture Implementation

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**Location: Malvern, PA (100% Onsite)

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**Experience Level: 2–3 Years of Relevant Experience

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**Education: Bachelor’s Degree required (Life Sciences, Biotech, Chemistry, Engineering, IT, or related discipline strongly preferred)

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**Industry: Biotechnology / Pharmaceuticals / Life Sciences

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**12+ Months Contract

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**Position Summary

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We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Project Manager to lead the end-to-end implementation of a Cell & Gene Therapy (CGT) development program and an associated Structured Data Capture (SDC) digital capability. In this role, you will be responsible for end-to-end project delivery across business, process, data, and technology workstreams—focusing heavily on governance setup, change management, stakeholder alignment, user training, and adoption.

The ideal candidate brings 2–3 years of hands-on project management experience, strong stakeholder management and communication skills, prior experience setting up change management governance, and ideally a background in life sciences/pharma or hands-on experience leveraging AI tools for project efficiency.

**Key Responsibilities

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**1. Project Governance & Delivery

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• Lead implementation through deployment, user readiness, and stabilization.

• Establish and facilitate project governance frameworks, steering committees, team meetings, and leadership status reviews.

• Maintain integrated project schedules, milestones, resource allocation, risks/issues logs (RAID), and dependencies.

• Build and manage project boards, reporting dashboards, and executive views using Monday.com (or similar tools like Smartsheet/MS Project).

• Partner cross-functionally with data, IT, lab/scientific, quality, and vendor teams to ensure compliance and delivery milestones.

**2. Change Management & Adoption Governance

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• Establish change management governance, frameworks, and adoption metrics.

• Conduct stakeholder impact analyses and change readiness assessments across business and laboratory functions.

• Form and coordinate a change champions network to facilitate seamless operational transitions.

• Identify adoption bottlenecks or user resistance points and implement proactive mitigation strategies.

**3. Stakeholder Communication & Alignment

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• Design and execute an audience-segmented communications plan (cadence, messaging channels, executive updates).

• Act as the primary liaison between functional business leaders, data/IT technical teams, and external partners.

• Translate complex digital and data capture processes into clear, actionable updates for executive leadership and end users.

**4. Training Coordination & User Readiness

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• Conduct user needs assessments and build a training rollout schedule aligned with system deployment phases.

• Coordinate the development of job aids, SOPs, workflows, and digital reference materials for structured data capture.

• Organize and support instructor-led workshops, train-the-trainer sessions, and operational office hours.

**Qualifications

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**Required:

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• **Bachelor’s degree

  ** (Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, IT, or related technical/scientific field preferred).

• **2–3 years of professional project management experience

  ** coordinating cross-functional projects.

• Demonstrated experience setting up governance for change management and project delivery.

• Proven track record in stakeholder management and executive/cross-functional communication.

• Hands-on proficiency with modern project management tools (e.g., Monday.com, Smartsheet, MS Project, Jira).

• Ability to work 100% onsite in Malvern, PA.

**Preferred / Bonus:

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• **Scientific background or domain familiarity

  ** in Cell & Gene Therapy (CGT), Biopharma, or Life Sciences.

• Experience with Structured Data Capture (SDC), Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN), LIMS, or Data Governance.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools/prompts to drive project documentation and workflow efficiency.

• PMP, CAPM, or Change Management (e.g., Prosci) certification