Senior IT Project Manager – Disaster Recovery & Cyber Resilience in Pharma

Transforming Life Science Consulting Worldwide.

Fusion Consulting is a globally leading Business and IT boutique consultancy specialized in the Life Sciences industry, partnering with leading companies in pharma, healthcare, and animal health.

With over 450 employees and 25 offices worldwide, our mission is to revolutionize our clients' business transformation challenges and set new industry standards through innovative solutions.

Focused on S/4HANA, Data & Cloud, and innovative technologies, Fusion Consulting brings unparalleled expertise and commitment to excellence to every project we undertake.

Grounded in our commitment to fast and intelligent decision-making, our client-first and open-hearted approach defines our ethos. With unwavering support and an entrepreneurial spirit, our global teamwork transcends boundaries and turns shared visions into reality.

At Fusion, we unite entrepreneurial minds from around the globe to develop and implement game-changing solutions that build lasting relationships with our clients.

The IT Project Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of a strategic Disaster Recovery (DR) and cyber resilience program across APAC and Europe. The role focuses on establishing and expanding regional DR capabilities, enabling recovery of business-critical applications, and introducing recovery automation to improve resilience, recovery speed, and failover readiness. The Project Manager coordinates infrastructure, network, security, application, and business stakeholders to ensure critical services can be recovered within agreed recovery objectives following major disruptions.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of Disaster Recovery and cyber resilience initiatives across multiple regions and sites.

Manage the establishment of an in-region co-location DR facility, including network connectivity, storage, Nutanix, VMware, firewalls, and application onboarding.

Coordinate DR enablement and recovery readiness for business-critical applications, including recovery planning, testing, and site failover exercises.

Drive implementation of Ansible-based recovery automation, including automated technical runbooks and recovery playbooks.

Manage related cyber resilience initiatives, including Citrix modernization, Azure MFA, malware protection, and remediation of identified security findings.

Coordinate cross-functional teams across Infrastructure, Network, Security, Applications, Business Continuity, vendors, and regional/site stakeholders.

Own project planning, budget, resources, dependencies, RAID management, governance, and executive status reporting.

Ensure DR solutions are successfully tested, documented, transitioned to operations, and capable of meeting defined recovery objectives.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.

Minimum 5 years of IT project management experience, preferably in Disaster Recovery, infrastructure, cybersecurity, or business continuity projects.

Strong understanding of Disaster Recovery concepts, business continuity, recovery testing, failover, and enterprise infrastructure.

Experience in regulated pharmaceutical environments (GxP documentation).

Experience managing infrastructure projects involving technologies such as VMware, Nutanix, storage, networking, firewalls, and co-location/data center environments.

Familiarity with infrastructure automation and recovery orchestration; experience with Ansible is highly advantageous.

Understanding of cybersecurity technologies such as MFA, malware protection, Citrix, and security remediation.