CMC Project Manager​/Senior CMC Project Manager, Research & Development, Research & Development

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CMC Project Manager/Senior CMC Project Manager, Research & Development
Fully Remote Remote Worker - US Only Research & Development

Full-time

Description

Reports to:

Director, Technical Project Management, Research & Development (R&D)

Location:

Remote Work (US Only)

Our mission is to make vaccines more accessible, enable innovation and expand immunization across the globe. We seek a future free from vaccine-preventable diseases. We are an innovative, collaborative, and engaged team that values accountability, teamwork, partnership and driving impact. We are vaccine champions improving lives through immunization. Sabin staff, management and the Board of Trustees are committed to ensuring that fairness, integrity, and opportunity remain at the core of how we operate.

The CMC Project Manager/Senior Project Manager leads cross-functionally to ensure planning and delivery of Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls activities across the vaccine development lifecycle. In partnership with CMC and Program leadership, this role translates strategy into integrated plans and ensures execution remains aligned with program objectives, contractual commitments, budgets, and milestones.

The CMC Project Manager coordinates internally as well as externally with service providers (e.g., Contract Manufacturers and Laboratories) and other partners. The role establishes clear deliverables, owners, dependencies, and decision points; monitors performance against plans; and holds teams and service providers accountable for timely execution, decision‑making, transparent information sharing, and risk management.

• Develop and improve project management tools and practices that strengthen planning, transparency, communication, and execution.
• Lead the day‑to‑day planning and management of drug product process development service providers and corresponding activities, coordinating deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and cross‑functional inputs to maintain alignment with CMC strategy and program milestones.
• Provide clear updates to Program leadership, governance bodies, funders, and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to the continued development of R&D project management standards and capabilities.

• Partner with Program and CMC leadership to translate development strategy into integrated CMC plans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, and deliverables.
• Develop and manage integrated and logic‑linked schedules that enable identification of critical path, decision points, assumptions, and schedule risks.
• Critically evaluate plans, dependencies, and assumptions to ensure resulting schedules are realistic and aligned with program priorities and commitments.
• Assess changes in scope, strategy, or assumptions and communicate the impact on schedules, cost, resources, risk, and downstream activities.

• Plan and execute meetings that promote alignment, resolve conflicts, accelerate decisions, and maintain progress against the plan.
• Hold internal teams and service providers accountable for accurate status reporting, timely escalation, schedule integration, and delivery of work to schedule and budget.
• Maintain effective project controls, including alignment driving agendas and meeting minutes, schedules, action and decision logs, risk registers, and milestone reporting.
• Monitor and control progress against plans, identify variances, and partner with accountable leads to implement corrective or recovery actions.
• Coordinate activities across sub team and working groups, contract manufacturers, testing laboratories, consultants, and other partners.
• Ensure…