Senior Manager, Project Management Academy

Senior Manager, Project Management Academy Equipment

Position Summary:

• Shift: M-F 8am- 5pm
• Location: This position can sit in Philadelphia, PA or Kansas City, MO
• 100% Onsite

Catalent’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania site serves as the company’s North American Center of Excellence for clinical supply packaging, delivering comprehensive, end‑to‑end support for global clinical trials across multiple therapeutic modalities. The site provides integrated services including direct comparator sourcing, blinding and manufacturing, primary and secondary packaging, storage and distribution, and clinical returns management, enabling efficient and compliant trial execution. It also plays a growing role in supporting biologic as well as cell and gene therapy programs, with enhanced cold‑chain and cryogenic handling capabilities designed to meet the complex requirements of advanced therapies. As a critical hub within Catalent’s global clinical supply network, the Philadelphia site helps sponsors accelerate development timelines while maintaining the highest standards of quality, flexibility, and regulatory compliance.

Our Philadelphia site is located in the Bensalem/Northeast Philadelphia area.

We have an opportunity for a Senior Manager, Project Management Academy to join our team. This role will define and maintain the Global PM Academy operating model, governance structure, and technical roadmap. The position will design and manage role-based learning programs, certification frameworks, and digital learning systems. The successful candidate will ensure global consistency, compliance, and continuous improvement across all academy processes and platforms.

The Role

• Lead the Global PM Academy strategy, governance, roadmap, release planning, key performance indicators, and operational controls.
• Design role-based learning paths and onboarding programs, including assessments, proficiency benchmarks, and certification requirements.
• Develop and maintain project management training content covering governance, planning, risk, finance, quality, compliance, and change control.
• Manage learning platforms, digital training tools, AI-enabled learning capabilities, and controlled content repositories to ensure compliance and data integrity.
• Establish reporting dashboards and analytics to measure training effectiveness, certification status, competency development, and business impact.
• Drive continuous improvement through curriculum gap analyses, certification governance, and global scaling of standardized academy processes across sites and regions.

The Candidate

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience in project management, Project Management Office, learning systems, technical training, or enterprise transformation, including responsibility for global standards or platforms is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience designing competency frameworks, technical skill matrices, assessment rubrics, certification requirements, and proficiency-based career criteria.
• Experience building and administering scalable onboarding, curricula, examinations, certification, and continuing-education programs.
• Working knowledge of predictive, Agile, and hybrid project delivery methods, including scope, schedule, cost, risk, issue, dependency, change, and benefits management.
• Experience with learning-management systems and digital-learning technologies, including assignments, access controls, completion tracking, audit trails, content versioning, and reporting.
• Experience governing document repositories and controlled content, including Standard Operating Procedures, work instructions, templates, playbooks, curricula, records retention, and periodic review.
• Advanced proficiency with data analysis, key performance indicator design, dashboards, assessment analytics, and measurement of training effectiveness and operational impact.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical, biotech, Contract Research Organization, Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization, clinical-supply, or other regulated operations, including quality-system and compliance requirements.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled learning or project management solutions with appropriate data, security, validation, access, and content-governance controls.
• Demonstrable leadership experience at Catalent (including but not limited to participation in Catalent‑sponsored leadership programs such as NGGL, GOLD, LEAD Now, GM Excellence, and GROW) may be considered in place of external experience.

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process.
• Diverse, inclusive culture.
• Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives.
• Competitive paid time off plus 8 paid holidays.
• Community engagement and green initiatives.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits effective day one of employment.
• Tuition reimbursement.

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

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