Director, Program Management
About this role
Reporting to the VP, Integrated Solutions, this role serves as the primary customer-facing project execution leader from contract award through project planning, design approval, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, qualification support, handover, and project closeout.
The Director will establish and scale Repligen's Integrated Solutions execution capabilities by developing project governance, execution processes, standards, tools, and best practices for enterprise-level programs. This leader will also recruit, develop, and mentor a team of Project Managers to support business growth and successful project delivery.
This role is expected to model our Leadership Behaviors—Integrity & Compliance, Customer Focus, Collaboration, Courage, Team Empowerment, and Accountability & Results—in all aspects of work.
Key Responsibilities
- Solution Architecture: Lead cross-functional team alignment to translate customer design requirements into integrated process solutions. Ensure clear communication and execution of process equipment designs, automation standards, and third-party interfaces to support successful project delivery.
- Project execution: Lead the project execution team to deliver projects safely, on time, and within budget while proactively managing scope, risks, resources, governance, quality, and customer expectations.
- Stakeholder alignment: Coordinate across internal functions and external partners to resolve issues, manage dependencies and escalations, and enable successful project delivery.
- Organizational leadership: Recruit, develop, coach, and retain high-performing project management talent; establish clear accountability, performance expectations, and succession plans.
- Project Management Tools and Standards: Develop, implement, and continuously improve standardized project management tools, templates, dashboards, stage-gate processes, and reporting methods to strengthen governance, ensure consistent execution, and provide visibility into project scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, and performance.
- Partnership strategy: Develop and execute partnership strategies involving engineering firms, system integrators, and other bioprocessing hardware and technology suppliers.
- Project Closeout & Continuous Improvement: Capture lessons learned and customer feedback from completed projects and translate them into actionable improvements for products, processes, execution methodologies, and future customer programs.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Life Sciences, Operations, or related technical discipline.
- More than 10 years of life sciences industry experience, including substantial experience in program management, project management, or project engineering, GMP manufacturing, scale-up, commissioning, qualification, validation, and global project execution.
- At least 7 years of experience leading complex capital, bioprocessing, manufacturing, or engineered-system projects from pre-sale solution and proposal development through delivery, commissioning, qualification, and customer handover.
- Progressive leadership experience in regional operations, program management, or project execution, with accountability for customer delivery, financial performance, and cross-functional alignment.
- Demonstrated ability to establish project governance, prioritize resources, manage risk, and lead escalation and decision-making processes.
- At least 3 years of people leadership experience, including talent development, succession planning, and building team capability across varying levels of experience and organizational maturity.
Additional Requirements
- Willingness and ability to travel globally approximately 20%.
- Executive presence and confidence engaging with A&E firms and high-level end-user engineering and project managers.
- Goal-oriented, collaborative, highly organized, and accountable leadership style.
- Self-motivated and able to operate effectively with a high degree of autonomy.
• Valid passport and driver’s license.
What Repligen Offers
Our mission is to inspire advances in bioprocessing as a trusted partner in the production of biologic drugs that improve human health worldwide. Focused on cost and process efficiencies, we deliver innovative technologies and solutions that help set new standards in bioprocessing. The estimated base salary range for this role, based in the United States of America is $165,000-$235,000. Compensation decisions are dependent on several factors including, but not limited to an individual's ,qualifications, location, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Additionally, employees are eligible to participate in one of our variable cash programs (bonus or commission) and eligible roles may receive equity as part of the compensation package. We offer a wide range of benefits such as paid time off, health/dental/vision, retirement benefits and flexible spending accounts. All compensation and benefits information will be confirmed in writing at the time of offer.
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