Senior Director of the Global Project Delivery Office

Job Title: Senior Director of the Global Project Delivery Office

Location: Remote

Position Summary:

Catalent is a global, high-growth, private company, and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives. Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer and Catalent employee.

The Senior Director of the Global Project Delivery Office (GPDO) is accountable for building and leading the enterprise global function that drives delivery excellence, capability development, operational standardization, and central operations across the Project Delivery organization. This leader oversees three enterprise pillars ensuring consistent, predictable, and scalable execution across all regions and sites:

• CSS Enterprise Strategy Execution
• PM Academy/Business Process Optimization & Governance
• Global Central Operations,
• Quality Governance

The Role:  

• Enterprise Strategy Execution: Lead enterprise CSS strategy execution—driving dashboards, analytics, operating model upkeep, and governance rhythm in one cohesive framework.
• Capability & Talent Development (PM Academy): Run global PM/PC capability development—owning training, onboarding, certification, competencies, role expectations, promotion pathways, continuous learning, mentorship, and SME engagement.
• Business Process Optimization & Governance: Drive global PM process and tool standardization—overseeing continuous improvement, OneHub/Workfront governance and change management, and financial governance across budgets, forecasts, amendments, invoices, and profitability.
• Cross‑Functional & Organizational Leadership: Align PM, Ops, Quality, Finance, IT, and HR around unified delivery standards—driving systemic issue resolution, end‑to‑end delivery improvements, and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Global Central Operations (Execution Backbone): Partners with the Global Central Operations Leader to deploy Ops strategy across sites, drive priority alignment and adoption, resolve delivery issues, and advance operational excellence
• Quality Governance (Compliance & Right‑First‑Time): Partners with Central Quality to deploy quality strategy, enforce global standards, and ensure deviation management, compliance, and audit readiness while driving right‑first‑time execution across all sites

The Candidate:  

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, AI literacy preferred
• 15+ years in Project/Program Management, Operational Excellence, or global transformation roles. PMO experience preferred
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise‑scale operational standardization and capability‑building programs.
• Experience in PM and Lean methodologies, governance frameworks, digital PM tools (Workfront/OneHub/JDE), data analytics, and AI literacy preferred.
• Strong financial acumen and experience managing budgets, forecasts, and cost models.
• Proven leadership in matrixed environments with global stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication, executive presence, organizational leadership, and change leadership capability.
• Leadership Attributes
  • Enterprise thinker with strong systems orientation
  • Builds scalable, repeatable global operating models
  • Data‑driven, execution‑focused decision maker
  • Strong coaching mindset with passion for talent and capability uplift
  • Able to inspire, influence and drive change at all levels of the organization

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
• Dynamic, fast-paced work environment.
• Community engagement and green initiatives
• Competitive compensation package
• 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 th