Sr. Regional PMO Leader, PDS (EMEA & APAC)

Overview

Senior regional PMO leader owning end-to-end program delivery for every Process Development Services customer in EMEA and APAC, leading a multi-country team of Sr. Project Managers and Project Managers.

What you'll do

• Lead project delivery across EMEA and APAC, ensuring strong performance across OTD, proposal and project cycle time, backlog health, customer satisfaction and data quality, while balancing demand, capacity and priorities across delivery sites.
• Manage the regional project portfolio and operating cadence with Commercial, CWMs, SMEs and Lab & Operations teams, including oversight of China projects where relevant.
• Act as the senior regional escalation point and support executive customer engagement for strategic and complex programs.
• Provide executive oversight for high-priority, complex or multi-site programs, partnering with Project Managers on execution.
• Manage senior customer governance, risks, escalations, scope changes and commercial performance, including revenue and margin.
• Lead, coach and develop a multi-country Project Management team, strengthening senior PM decision-making, building succession and career pathways, and fostering an inclusive and engaged culture across geographies and time zones.
• Deploy and sustain global PMO standard work, including Lead-to-Order, lifecycle governance, milestone discipline, risk and issue management and documentation quality.
• Use KPIs and DBS continuous improvement to improve consistency, capacity and performance and scale best practices across regions.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, engineering or a related field.
• 10+ years leading programs in biotech/life sciences process development or technical services, with a customer-first mindset.
• 5+ years leading people across multiple sites or countries, including developing future leaders.
• Experience as program executive on strategic customer programs, owning the executive relationship and commercial outcomes.
• Cross-cultural leadership across Europe and Asia.
• Willing to travel up to 20–30%.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree.
• Commercial background.
• Strong decision-maker who aligns Lab & Ops, SMEs and commercial partners, resolves trade-offs and owns the result.
• Demonstrated success deploying standard work, with strong KPI discipline and DBS/Lean experience.

Details

• Reports to the Director, Global PMO & Business Analytics.
• Role holds a dotted-line view of PDS projects in China.
• Location: Portsmouth, Uppsala or Bangalore, working remotely to cover EMEA and APAC.
• Travel up to 20–30%.