Senior Project Manager

Hybrid Model

2 days in-office per week (plus periodic international travel).

Join a leading global specialty pharmaceutical business driven by a profound commitment to delivering life-changing value to patients with unmet medical needs. Within this pioneering organisation, our Buckinghamshire-based EMEA IT team operates with the agility and pace of a greenfield venture, backed by the mandate and resources of a major international enterprise.

We are looking for an expert, proactive, and highly adaptable Business Change Programme Lead to spearhead a critical, transatlantic IT decommissioning and outsourcing programme. This is a high-visibility, senior-level assignment where you will act as a true partner to the business, safeguarding critical institutional knowledge and defining the future of our global service delivery.

This mission involves the comprehensive decommissioning of the IT function of a pharmaceutical subsidiary and the subsequent transfer of all IT assets, knowledge, and operations to the EMEA region. Your primary focus will be Urgent Knowledge Transfer
. Your immediate arrival will be pivotal in mitigating knowledge loss. Key milestones you will take ownership of include:

• Comprehensive KT Plans: Rapidly capturing, documenting, and prioritising critical expertise from US team members before they exit the business.
• Service Definition & Design: Specifically defining the "To-Be" service state, creating well-defined service descriptions, and drafting Runbooks for the EMEA IT delivery team.
• Strategic Outsourcing: Managing the seamless transition of knowledge from the established internal team into a new third-party service provider model.
• Operational Frameworks: Establishing robust RACI charts, Cutover Plans, and Exit/Acceptance Criteria to ensure minimal impact on the wider patient-centric organisation.

While this is a business change and transition leadership role, you will possess the technical literacy required to navigate a broad, hybrid infrastructure. You will oversee knowledge transfer across a wide variety of IT service domains:

• Infrastructure & Operations: Cloud, Security, Networks, and Endpoints.
• Support Services: Helpdesk and Operations management frameworks.
• Applications & Architecture: Enterprise architecture, integration, and portfolio management.
• Specialised Platforms: Facilitating deep-dive knowledge transfer across ERP (Net Suite), HRIS (Sage), and Veeva suites (RIM, Quality Docs, Med Info, Promomats).

We aren’t looking for a rigid specialist. We want a senior consultant with 10 to 15 years of experience who balances sharp technical fluency with exceptional business change capabilities.

• Sector Expertise: You bring a strong, proven background within the Pharma, Biotech, or Cell and Gene Therapy sectors.
• Project Leadership: You hold a PRINCE2 or PMP certification, alongside a demonstrable track record of delivering large-scale IT outsourcing and complex cross-border transition projects.
• Mindset: You are autonomous, action-oriented, and highly consultative. You thrive in a "high trust" environment, working closely with a collaborative Head of IT who values a "get things done" attitude.