IT Consultant

Job Title: Program Manager Job Role Type: Consultant Contract Duration: 6 months Job Location: Canonsburg, Pennsylvania Experience Required: 10+ Travel Requirements: Hybrid (3 days onsite per week) About the Role: A consulting firm is leading strategy, road mapping, and process optimization across supply chain and manufacturing areas, working closely with client process owners. They require IT partners to support participation in discussions, serving as key support for client IT SMEs to ensure alignment and continuity, playing a critical role in program direction shaped by the CIO. Key Responsibilities: Lead manufacturing/pharma digital transformation programs spanning operations performance, lab management, quality systems, and engineering digitalization. Manage global programs including proof-of-concepts and implementations with full lifecycle governance. Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders in operations, quality, labs, engineering, maintenance, and IT across regions. Establish multi-year program governance frameworks with executive steering. Deliver measurable business outcomes navigating regulated environments, ensuring compliance, cybersecurity, data governance, and validated systems. Deliver solutions with real-time KPI tracking and downtime analytics. Implement advanced production planning integrated with ERP and dynamic resource allocation. Drive lab digitization with automated scheduling, dashboards, and process monitoring. Execute quality management automation covering optimization, compliance, reporting, and workflow investigations. Manage multiple technology vendors and system integrators ensuring integration across execution, ERP, data, and analytics platforms. Lead geographically distributed multicultural teams using hybrid Agile/waterfall and stage-gate methods. Create enterprise integration patterns connecting operational, quality, lab, and energy systems to centralized data. Produce executive dashboards translating KPIs to business metrics. Lead crisis management for high-impact issues keeping timelines and budgets. Conduct change management for serialization-related changes. Additional responsibilities include program planning and governance, portfolio execution and coordination, testing and validation oversight, change management and training, data management and migration, go-live and deployment management, and post-production support. Provide all project execution tasks from planning to production support, validation documentation, change control processes, and continuous communication and reporting to business and IT teams.