Associate Director/Director, Program Management
Associate Director/Director, Program Management
Your role
- Align programs with business objectives and organizational goals
- Manage complex, high-impact global programs in a matrix environment
- Support development of the Program Management Office (PMO), and consistent implementation of Program Management (PM) tools and processes across portfolio to deliver improved business performance, higher efficiency, and excellence in execution
- Foster best practices in communication and alignment across the program team, functional teams, and other key stakeholders
- Responsible for ensuring effective, accurate, and timely communication of project information to the leadership team and other relevant stakeholders to ensure single source of truth for the development programs
- Execute and drive long-term strategic direction for programs, work closely with relevant functions to translate strategy into robust and realistic program and development plans;
- Take end-to-end ownership of program outcomes, keeping in mind budget, timelines and scope
- Drive alignment to develop executive-level reports to peers and senior management
- Organize and facilitate cross-functional program teams. Prepare, lead, and document team meetings
- Develop high-level, and detailed schedules (GANTT charts) across functional teams, build program budgets, and anticipate resource constraints or process bottlenecks
- Monitor and proactively manage program sub-team deliverables, track progress against milestones, flag resource or process bottlenecks, and adjust and correct as needed
- Anticipate, identify, quantify and escalate issues and risks as appropriate; propose and develop enterprise-wide mitigation strategies; maintain program risk log
Your profile
- MSc or PhD with 5+ years project management experience in Biotech/Pharma, with at least 2+ years as the lead PM on a program in Ph3 trials
- Background in a relevant biomedical field (e.g., molecular biology, protein chemistry, cell biology, immunology)
- PMP® certification and experience with MS Project
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate and coordinate across all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated ability to develop trusted relationships and maintain integrity
- Excellent program management and organizational skills, with experience managing multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Located in Boston, MA area
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