Senior Project Manager

We are looking for

• Lead project management efforts to support the implementation and continuous process improvement efforts related to scientific services and other R&D Operations initiatives.
• Act as the point of contact and subject matter expert for R&D Operations
• Ensures communication from the project team to all stakeholders of various functions and sub-teams as needed.
• This includes project reports, key activities, and timely alerts.
• Facilitate decision making, ensuring alignment with project team members, functional representatives, and other key stakeholders.
• Develop scenario alternatives, identifies risks, and propose mitigation plans, and manages variances in timings, resources and budget and ensures integrity of the R&D Operations portfolio and governance.
• Responsible for developing appropriate KPIs and measuring the success of each project/ service, ensuring engagement and that project priorities are communicated to all relevant stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates/highlights including KPIs and project alerts.
• Contributes actively to dashboards reporting for established Governance committees and ad-hoc meetings as requested.
• Act as a catalyst for productivity, monitoring the scientific community’s needs, sharing best practices, insights, ways of working and tools to enable scientific collaboration and R&D processes.
• Identifies issues to be raised with Head of Scientific Services for NA and Head of R&D NA- and proposes solutions and mitigation plans.

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering, Data Science or related discipline with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience (MBA preferred) across different functional groups preferred.
• Good knowledge of the R&D Biopharmaceutical industry, processes and ecosystems preferred.
• Project Management certification preferred, with demonstrated experience working with cross functional, diverse and multicultural teams.
• Proven leadership, capacity to coordinate several activities and stakeholders including external partners, if relevant.
• Expertise in managing large and complex projects and in managing global, multicultural development teams.

• 5-10 years of direct Project Management Experience.
• open to all industries/ non-pharma.
• Experience overseeing deliverables, creating process flow, managing project. timelines, addressing Issues/ barriers or escalations.
• MS Office – Visio, Smart sheets, or similar project software.
• Excel (intermediate – pivots are a must!).
• PowerPoint (ability to create) & Strong Presentation skills (will present to large groups).
• Business background operations background.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to Lean quickly, and take the lead of a project or program.
• Strong business acumen, customer service orientation user-centric, very quick at responding.
• Critical thinker/ Problem Solving – Risk assessment.
• Strong organizational skills.

• 10+ years of Project Management experience.
• R& D experience is a plus.
• Top candidates will have certification coupled with years of experience in Agile, PMP, or Six Sigma.