IT Project Manager - Digital Laboratory/Pharma

We are currently hiring an experienced IT Project Manager to lead digital laboratory initiatives within a regulated pharmaceutical environment.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Governance

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans including milestones, dependencies, resource plans, and timelines.
• Manage project risks, issues, and change control processes aligned with program governance.
• Ensure project activities are delivered within scope, schedule, and budget.

Requirements & Solution Coordination

• Facilitate workshops with business and IT stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
• Coordinate solution design activities with architects, technical leads, and vendors.
• Ensure configuration and technical documentation is created and maintained.

Execution, Testing & Validation

• Coordinate build and configuration activities with internal teams and third-party vendors.
• Plan and oversee unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing.
• Support system validation in line with regulatory and client standards.

Change Management & Training

• Manage project-specific change requests and approvals.
• Support training plans and rollout for SMEs and end users.
• Communicate project timelines, impacts, and updates to stakeholders.

Data & Environment Readiness

• Coordinate data mapping, migration, and validation activities for testing and go-live.
• Ensure readiness of development, test, and production environments.

Go-Live & Post Implementation Support

• Prepare detailed cutover and go-live plans.
• Coordinate go-live activities and support go/no-go decision processes.
• Manage post-go-live hypercare to ensure system stability and issue resolution.

Reporting & Communication

• Provide regular project status updates to stakeholders and program leadership.
• Maintain project documentation, RAID logs, and governance reports.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of IT Project Management experience
• Proven experience delivering IT projects in laboratory or quality environments
• Experience managing end-to-end digital lab or laboratory system projects
• Ability to collaborate with Manufacturing, QC, and QA teams
• Knowledge of lab workflows, data integrity, and regulated environments
• Experience coordinating integrations between lab systems, reporting platforms, and ERP systems
• Strong experience managing both technical and business stakeholders

Experience working with regulatory frameworks such as

• GAMP 5
• 21 CFR Part 11

is highly preferred.