[Hiring] Functional GCM Project Management @Alpha Business Solutions

Role Description

R&D is establishing and scaling global development hubs in India and Poland as part of its Global Capability Model (GCM) transformation. The program is building new R&D capabilities while simultaneously redesigning how work is organized, where capabilities are located, and how teams operate across the global R&D network.

The Functional GCM Project Management role will provide dedicated execution support to one or more R&D Functional Leaders. The role will help translate functional strategies and designs into executable workforce, change, onboarding, and transition plans and ensure that issues are identified and resolved before they disrupt implementation. This is a hands-on role requiring strong project management, structured problem solving, and the ability to work across global functions, HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, local site teams, and other GCM workstreams.

The role may be filled at different levels of seniority:

• Senior resources will lead the work with Functional GCM Leads and independently drive cross-functional execution.
• More junior resources will provide project management, analysis, and coordination support within the same areas of responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Functional GCM Execution:
  • Partner with Functional GCM Leads to translate approved functional strategies and organization designs into practical execution plans.
  • Maintain an integrated view of functional milestones, dependencies, decisions, risks, and issues across workforce build, change, onboarding, and transition activities.
  • Connect functional execution with the broader GCM program and identify dependencies requiring coordination across R&D functions, GCM sites, or enterprise teams.
  • Ensure emerging execution issues are surfaced early, with clear options and recommendations for resolution.
• R&D HQ Transition Support and Hypercare:
  • Establish and operate a high-touch transition support process for functions moving work, building new teams, or implementing new operating models.
  • Provide a clear point of coordination for transition issues raised by functional leaders, managers, and new teams.
  • Triage issues quickly, connect them to the appropriate owner, and drive follow-through until resolution.
  • Identify recurring issues and patterns that indicate broader gaps in processes, policies, onboarding, technology, or site readiness and escalate them through the GCM program.
• Onboarding and Operational Readiness:
  • Partner with Functional GCM Leads, hiring managers, and local India and Poland Knowledge Transfer PMs teams to prepare for successful onboarding of new employees and teams.
  • Coordinate functional readiness for hiring cohorts, including manager preparation, local orientation, access and tools, role onboarding, and other dependencies required for employees to become productive.
  • Ensure dependencies between hiring, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness are visible and managed.
• Workforce and Hiring Planning:
  • Support Functional GCM Leads in finalizing workforce and hiring plans, including roles, locations, timing, sequencing, and hiring waves.
  • Maintain accurate functional demand and hiring plans and reconcile changes with Talent Acquisition, HR, and the central GCM workforce planning process.
  • Track progress from approved workforce demand through requisition launch, recruiting, and hiring, highlighting risks to planned timing or workforce assumptions.
• Change and Communications:
  • Support development and execution of divisional and functional change and communication plans associated with GCM implementation.
  • Work with Functional GCM Leads, HR, and Communications to identify affected stakeholder groups, key messages, leadership engagement needs, manager support, and employee readiness activities.
  • Track change readiness, emerging concerns, and adoption risks and ensure they are addressed through the appropriate functional or program channels.
• Business Cases and Functional Design Support:
  • Support development of business cases for new or evolving functional GCM designs.
  • Coordinate collection and analysis of workforce, cost, timing, organizational, and operational assumptions required to assess proposed designs.
  • Maintain traceability between approved business-case assumptions and subsequent execution plans.

Seniority Differentiation

• Senior Project Management Resource:
  • Serve as the primary execution partner to one or more Functional GCM Leads.
  • Independently lead integrated functional planning and execution.
  • Drive resolution of complex cross-functional dependencies and issues.
  • Facilitate senior stakeholder discussions and drive decisions to closure.
• Project Manager Resource:
  • Support development and maintenance of workforce, change, onboarding, and transition plans.
  • Coordinate meetings, inputs, actions, decisions, and dependencies across stakeholders.
  • Track risks and issues and drive follow-up with responsible owners.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated project or program management experience in a complex, global organization.
• Ability to manage multiple interconnected workstreams with significant organizational and stakeholder dependencies.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate strategy or organization design into practical implementation plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of clear executive-level materials.
• Ability to work effectively with senior functional leaders as well as operational teams.
• Demonstrated ability to identify risks, resolve ambiguity, and drive issues to closure.
• Experience with workforce planning, organizational transformation, change management, business-case development, or large-scale implementation preferred.
• Experience within pharmaceutical R&D, life sciences, or another complex global operating environment preferred but not required.

Critical Capabilities

Successful candidates will be able to move comfortably between strategy and execution. They should be highly organized without becoming process-heavy, able to work through ambiguity, willing to challenge plans that are not executable, and effective at building relationships across functions and geographies.

Benefits

• Medical for full-time employees
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability