Project Manager - III

Position: Project Manager - III*
Description:

Remote Position with the expectation of travel to Gilead sites as needed. Candidates should be open to travel within the US.

Senior Project Management

Job Description Enterprise-Wide Grants Management System Implementation
Core Implementation Experience

Experience Requirement: 10+ years of related experience
Education Requirement:
Min Bachelor's Degree;
Masters preferred

Demonstrated experience leading or supporting enterprise-scale grants management system implementations within complex, highly regulated organizations.

Required Experience Includes:

• Proven ability to co-lead implementation efforts in partnership with IT and key business leads.

• Strong collaboration skills with IT project managers, business analysts, system integrators, and other key business stakeholders, including coordination across U.S. and ex-U.S. teams.

• Advanced cross-functional project management capability across Corporate Social Responsibility programming (e.g., Grants, Sponsor ships, Foundation, FOCUS, Medical Affairs giving, IT, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, etc.)

• Direct vendor-facing experience including ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and IT project managers on requirements translation, solution design validation, configuration oversight, issue escalation, and milestone governance

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts into business-ready language.

• Demonstrated experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare philanthropy programs, both U.S. and ex-U.S.

Project Ownership & Alignment

• Own the integrated business project plan including milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decision points across CSR, IT, Finance, and vendors.

• Operate within the Legal, Compliance, & Corporate Responsibility (LCCR) project management governance standards, including status reporting, RAID tracking (risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies), escalations, and participation in steering forums.

• Serve as a primary coordination point between business readiness activities and IT delivery timelines.

Business Requirements & Solution Validation

• Validate business requirements definition, ensuring alignment on scope, assumptions and success criteria with all involved stakeholders.

• Partner with IT business analysts and system integrators to ensure accurate translation of business requirements into system design, configuration, and integrations.

• Maintain requirements traceability across design, build, testing, and go-live to ensure business outcomes are met within specified timelines.

• Facilitate business review and sign-off of requirements, solution designs, and key configuration decisions.

Change Management & Organizational Readiness

• Experience partnering with various stakeholders in a matrixed environment to support enterprise alignment on vision, objectives, timelines, and change impacts.

• Experience developing and executing change management strategies including stakeholder mapping, readiness assessments, training coordination, and adoption tracking.

• Demonstrated ability to prepare executive-level updates, project risk summaries, and decision briefs.

• Accountable for change and communications execution, including stakeholder-specific messaging, senior-level talking points, and adoption measurement.

• Define and coordinate role-based training approaches, including global rollout considerations and measurement of training effectiveness.

Reporting, Data & Controls

• Experience in financial reporting related to grants and philanthropic funding.

• Familiarity with grant impact data, performance metrics, and outcome reporting.

• Experience supporting audit readiness, compliance controls, and documentation.

• Experience coordinating data governance and data quality, including data ownership, validation rules and post-go-live stewardship

Additional Highly Valued Skillsets

• Systems integration awareness (finance, procurement, compliance, contract management).

• Experience supporting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integrated implementations, including financial systems (e.g., SAP), with an understanding of grants-to-ERP data flows, vendor master data, cost centers, GL postings, and reconciliation considerations

• Data migration and validation oversight.

• Process design and standardization across the grant's lifecycle.

• Risk, issue, and dependency management.

• Post-go-live stabilization and transition to steady-state operations.

Other Duties as Assigned

• Support development of business, strategy, and operations functions including SOPs, governance models, and KPI frameworks

Additional Details

• Manager's Requested XXXX : (No Value)
• Onsite Offsite :
  Offsite