Senior Project Manager, Manufacturing Transfer

Actalent Services is hiring a Senior Project Manager to lead a multi-year manufacturing transfer project with one of our services clients in the medical-device industry. The Senior PM will lead complex cross-functional initiatives that involve analyzing and relocating medical-device products, processes, equipment, and manufacturing capabilities from an existing facility to alternate internal locations and manufacturing partners. This role involves both strategic and project execution leadership, determining appropriate manufacturing models and leading the implementation of the approved plan. The individual will collaborate with executive leadership for our client, and Actalent engineering leadership within our services organization to evaluate options, build business cases, secure decisions, and execute the transfer while maintaining product quality, regulatory compliance, customer service, and continuity of supply.

This role will involve travel to multiple manufacturing sites within the eastern timezone (U.S.) - up to an every-other-week cadence initially. Remote/work-from-home flexibility is offered on non-travel weeks.

Responsibilities

• Lead evaluation, planning, and execution of large-scale manufacturing process and production transfers across internal sites and external manufacturing partners.

• Develop and compare scenarios including insourcing, outsourcing, contract manufacturing, site consolidation, and transfer to alternate internal facilities.

• Establish decision criteria and evaluate capital requirements, operating costs, capacity, labor availability, technical capability, quality, regulatory requirements, supply risk, timing, and long-term strategic fit.

• Facilitate cross-functional trade-off discussions and convert findings into clear recommendations for leadership approval.

• Maintain business-continuity and supply-risk mitigation as core considerations throughout the transition.

• Partner with Finance and business leadership to build financial models and business cases supporting manufacturing-network decisions.

• Evaluate alternatives using capital investment, operating expense, transition cost, total cost of ownership, unit economics, expected savings, and return measures.

• Track program budgets, forecasts, capital expenditures, financial commitments, savings, and variances throughout execution.

• Serve as the primary program interface with executive leadership.

• Prepare and present executive decision packages, dashboards, milestone reviews, risk assessments, financial implications, and recommendations.

• Lead steering-committee governance and drive timely resolution of decisions, constraints, and escalations.

• Translate complex technical, regulatory, operational, and financial information into concise business language.

• Own the integrated program from feasibility and strategy through detailed planning, transfer, validation, production readiness, stabilization, and closure.

• Manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, milestones, assumptions, risks, issues, decisions, and change control.

• Ensure appropriate transfer of equipment, tooling, processes, specifications, work instructions, quality records, manufacturing data, and process knowledge.

• Coordinate process validation, equipment qualification, change control, supplier qualification, manufacturing readiness, and applicable regulatory deliverables.

Essential Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.

• Proven experience leading manufacturing transfer/facility relocation projects within the medical device industry is required.

• Minimum 8 years of progressive project or program management experience, including responsibility for complex cross-functional initiatives.

• Minimum 5 years of project or program leadership within medical device, life sciences, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated leadership of manufacturing transfers, facility consolidations, insourcing, outsourcing, and/or contract-manufacturing transitions.

• Strong business and financial acumen, including experience evaluating project economics, capital investment, cost structures, total cost, and business cases.

• Exceptional executive-level written, verbal, presentation, and relationship-building skills.

• Advanced project planning, risk management, issue resolution, decision facilitation, and organizational skills.

• Working knowledge of FDA 21 CFR Part 820 / Quality Management System Regulation and ISO 13485:2016, plus applicable validation, change-control, and risk-management practices.

• PMP or comparable project/program management certification.

Compensation and Benefits Information

$125,000-$150,000 starting base salary; medical/dental/vision benefits; 2 weeks paid time-off + 6 paid holidays.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Philadelphia, PA.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $130000.00 - $150000.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Philadelphia, PA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 20, 2026.

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Philadelphia,PA.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

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