Senior Project Manager

Description

About the company

Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, with a satellite location in Belgium, Organ Recovery Systems is a global market-leading provider of organ preservation products and services. We support over 400 transplant programs across 49 countries. In 2025, the company reached 275,000 kidneys perfused with LKT since its launch in 2003. Life Port Kidney Transporter is among a growing family of products and services developed by Organ Recovery Systems to support the Company’s mission of honoring organ donation by delivering innovative solutions that support transplant professionals and improve long-term outcomes for patients.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Senior Project Manager will lead complex, cross-functional, and strategic initiatives within an FDA-regulated medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or diagnostics environment. Candidates must have at least 10 years of project and/or program management experience supporting regulated product development, manufacturing, quality, validation, regulatory, or commercialization activities. The ideal candidate has significant experience navigating Design Controls, Quality Systems, GMP requirements, Validation processes, Regulatory Compliance, and other requirements that govern the development, manufacture, and commercialization of regulated products.

This role is responsible for providing project leadership, governance, executive-level communication, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and delivery oversight for high-impact programs that support critical business objectives. The Senior Project Manager will drive project execution from concept through commercialization, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure projects remain on track with respect to scope, schedule, budget, quality, and regulatory expectations.

Strong proficiency with project management tools is required, with Smartsheet experience highly preferred. Candidates who have leveraged Smartsheet to build and manage complex project plans, executive dashboards, resource tracking, reporting, workflow automation, and portfolio visibility will be particularly well-suited for this role.

This position requires exceptional communication, leadership, and influence skills, with the ability to effectively engage executive stakeholders, facilitate decision-making, and drive successful outcomes across multiple functions in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

May provide work direction, mentoring, and coaching to Associate Project Managers, Project Managers, and project team members as assigned.

PRIMARY (Essential) FUNCTIONS:

• This role will be responsible for leading complex company projects and programs, including establishing project structure, facilitating executive and cross-functional alignment, managing project teams, tracking progress, resolving escalated issues, and ensuring delivery of strategic initiatives on time, within scope, and within approved budget parameters.
• This role will be responsible for supporting PMO governance, portfolio visibility, project reporting discipline, and continuous improvement of project management practices across the organization.
• Create, develop, maintain, and execute plans for complex organizational projects and programs, including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines while leading projects through the project lifecycle as follows:

Project Kickoff/Planning

• Complete and maintain comprehensive Project Plans, including scope, objectives, business requirements, task definition, task sequencing, resource allocation, timeline estimates, budget considerations, risks, mitigation plans, dependencies, governance structure, communication plan, and success criteria for the project or program.
• Partner with executive sponsors, business leaders, department heads, vendors, and functional stakeholders to establish project objectives, roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and escalation paths.
• Develop project governance, stakeholder engagement plans, status reporting cadence, and steering committee materials, as applicable.
• Procure, coordinate, and manage adequate project resources to achieve project…