Senior Manager, Project Controls - Global Engineering and Project Delivery

About the role

The Senior Manager, Project Controls leads cost management, risk management, and governance functions across a portfolio of enterprise pharmaceutical capital projects — including facility construction, process equipment installation, technology transfer, and manufacturing suite build-outs/retrofits. This role owns budget integrity, forecasting accuracy, risk visibility, and governance compliance across the capital portfolio, while maintaining oversight of project schedules (owned and maintained by project scheduling/PM staff) to ensure cost, risk, and schedule data remain aligned and integrated. The Senior Manager partners with Project Delivery, Engineering, Quality, Validation, EHS, Procurement, and Finance to drive disciplined decision-making and ensure projects are delivered within approved budgets and in full compliance with cGMP, regulatory, and internal governance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support enterprise-level capital portfolio reporting and analytics to support data-driven capital allocation decisions.
• Oversee validation and consolidation of multi-year CapEx financial plans and forecasts.
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance of capital and OPEX financial reporting including budgets, forecasts, accruals, and close-out activities.
• Ensure Portfolio Governance & Financial Oversight.
• Serve as the governance gatekeeper for capital project financials — ensuring spend approvals, forecast updates, and contingency usage follow established controls.
• Lead a team of project controls professionals (cost engineers, risk analysts, controls analysts) supporting capital projects in a regulated manufacturing environment.
• Own cost baselines, forecasting, and earned value management (EVM) across capital projects, tracking against approved CapEx budgets and business case commitments.
• Establish and lead the project risk management process — risk identification, quantification, mitigation planning, contingency drawdown, and escalation of key risks to leadership.
• Maintain oversight of project schedules developed by scheduling/PM teams, ensuring schedule inputs are properly reflected in cost forecasts, risk registers, and governance reporting.
• Own project controls governance: stage-gate compliance, capital appropriation request (CAR/AFE) processes, change control, and adherence to internal capital project policies.
• Manage change control processes in coordination with Project Delivery and Engineering, ensuring cost and risk impacts of design, scope, or regulatory changes are properly assessed, approved, and documented.
• Produce reporting packages (dashboards, forecasts, variance analyses, risk registers, portfolio status) for site leadership, global capital planning teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Identify and escalate risks related to equipment lead times, regulatory approval timelines, validation delays, and supply chain constraints common to pharma capital projects.
• Ensure project controls processes align with cGMP documentation standards, data integrity requirements, and internal audit/inspection readiness.
• Standardize cost control, risk management, and governance tools, templates, and frameworks across sites or business units.