Project Manager - Waltham - Alkermes, Inc.

Description

As a Project Manager, you will support Alkermes in advancing a comprehensive AI strategy through our INDIGO program, an enterprise-wide initiative to expand the impact of machine learning and AI capabilities across our business. Your role will involve leading cross-functional projects supporting the R&D AI workstream within INDIGO and partnering closely with the INDIGO Program Manager to further establish the team's agile transformation. By aligning outcomes and processes with strategic goals and ensuring that projects are delivered on time and in budget, you will be pivotal in contributing to best practices, shaping INDIGO operations, and ensuring successful outcomes on Alkermes' investments in ML and AI technologies and products.

Competitive candidates must demonstrate strengths in collaboration, organization, problem solving, facilitation, communication, and thrive in a fast paced environment. They bring deep experience in agile project management, R&D, and AI applications within the pharmaceutical or life-sciences industry, along with a solid conceptual background in artificial intelligence and information technology. The candidate must be an experienced and certified Project Manager in AI and IT initiatives using SCRUM and Agile methodologies.

This role is based in our Waltham location and follows a hybrid office schedule requiring the candidate to be onsite 3x a week.

Responsibilities

• Define and Clarify Objectives: Establish clear project objectives, scope, and success criteria, aligning both Agile and traditional planning approaches,
• Develop Project Plans: Build and maintain hybrid project plans that combine iterative delivery (sprints, backlogs, increments) with structured timelines, milestones, and resource planning and budget alignment to ensure projects are delivered on scope, on time, and within financial targets.
• Resource Management and Capacity Management: Coordinate team capacity, skills, and resource needs across workstreams to ensure smooth execution.
• Team Leadership: guide the project team by facilitating Agile ceremonies, coordinating cross-functional workflows, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring progress toward deliverables.
• Proactive risk and issue management, identify risks early, drive mitigation strategies, resolve issues quickly, and ensure strong cross-functional communication and alignment.
• Maintain project artifacts and communication tools, develop and manage key project documents, dashboards, and communication mechanisms that support transparency and collaboration across teams.
• Support portfolio governance, contribute to portfolio level governance by applying structured frameworks, consistent reporting, and disciplined execution across hybrid delivery models.
• Foster a collaborative team environment that cultivates and promotes: a "learning" team mindset which seeks, assesses & incorporates feedback-learnings-new/evolved ideas, open and transparent communication, and constructive conflict resolution.
• Training and Support: Organize and facilitate training for users of implemented AI solutions.
• Post-Project Evaluation: Conduct evaluations to assess project success and identify areas for improvement.

Core Competencies:

• Experience: Proven experience in managing AI and technology projects within the R&D vertical, with a strong emphasis on Agile methodologies.
• Skills: Strong ability to lead complex projects from initiation to delivery, including planning, budgeting, risk management, and cross functional collaboration using hybrid methodologies; excellent communication and leadership.
• Strong change management awareness with the ability to guide teams through evolving AI and R&D governance requirements.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Life Sciences, or related fields.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or similar project management certifications highly preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to manage global complex, cross-functional technology projects with a solid understanding of software development lifecycles, system architecture, and integration principles to effectively communicate with technical teams to ensure delivery of scalable solutions.
• Proven experience in projects involving scientific research or data driven methodologies, with the ability to interpret technical findings, align project objectives with scientific rigor, and facilitate collaboration between research and operational teams.
• Forward thinking mindset with a passion for leveraging AI to drive business value.
• Skill in translating governance policies into actionable workflows for technical and scientific teams.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing project requirements and environments.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $137,786 to $147,460. In addition, this position is eligible for an annual performance pay bonus. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, training, knowledge, and experience. Alkermes offers a competitive benefits package. Additional details can be found on our careers website: orking-here

About Us

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Why join Team Alkermes?

Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we seek to make a meaningful difference in the way people manage their diseases. We have a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.

We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts' Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine.

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. xhmxlyz Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.

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