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Project Manager - Project Management Office (PMO)
full timeSacramento, CA
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AT A GLANCE
OperationsManager levelFull TimeRegular, Full-Time Employee
More than one million people in the United States today are fighting blood cancer. While a traditional allogeneic stem cell transplant has been the best hope for many, the transplant itself can prove fatal or lead to serious conditions, such as graft vs. host disease. Orca Bio is
About the role
More than one million people in the United States today are fighting blood cancer. While a traditional allogeneic stem cell transplant has been the best hope for many, the transplant itself can prove fatal or lead to serious conditions, such as graft vs. host disease. Orca Bio is a commercial-stage biotechnology company redefining the transplant process by developing next-generation cell therapies with the goal of providing significantly better survival rates with dramatically fewer risks. With our purified, high-precision cell therapies we hope to not only replace patients' blood and immune systems with healthy ones, but also restore their lives.
We have built a state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sacramento, CA (7910 Metro Air Pkwy) to ensure the consistent and reliable delivery of our high-precision cell therapy products. This site is essential to advancing our clinical pipeline and supporting future commercial availability of our life-saving therapies.
The Project Coordinator supports the Project Management Office (PMO) by coordinating project schedules, maintaining project plans, tracking deliverables, and facilitating cross-functional communication across Technical Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, and Supply Chain organizations. This role is responsible for maintaining accurate project data in Smartsheet, supporting governance meetings, producing project metrics and dashboards, and ensuring projects remain aligned with business priorities. The ideal candidate has prior pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing experience and is highly proficient in Smartsheet.
Responsibilities
- Own and actively manage detailed cross-functional project plans from initiation through implementation, including scope, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, decision points, and critical path activities.
- Manage defined CMC, Technical Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Clinical, and other business or operational projects, coordinating work across functional teams and maintaining accountability to agreed timelines and deliverables.
- Build, maintain, and drive project schedules in Smartsheet; ensure plans accurately reflect current status, dependencies, risks, and changes in execution.
- Identify schedule risks, resource or dependency constraints, and emerging blockers; work directly with project teams and functional leaders to develop mitigation plans, facilitate decisions, and escalate issues when appropriate.
- Lead project meetings and working sessions, establish clear agendas and objectives, document key decisions and actions, and ensure appropriate follow-through across the project team.
- Develop clear project status reports, RAID logs, dashboards, milestone views, and executive-level presentations that translate detailed project information into concise, decision-oriented communications.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Technical Operations, Regulatory, Clinical, and Supply Chain stakeholders to support implementation activities in a regulated environment, including change controls, validation activities, operational readiness, and other project-specific deliverables.
- Support PMO governance and portfolio management by providing accurate project data, communicating project health and priorities, and contributing to consistent project management practices across the organization.
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