Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description:

Description: The Strategic Project Manager role provides business planning for US Medical Affairs teams. This role interfaces with all areas of US-Medical Affairs (US-MA) as well as parts of the Commercial organization. An in-depth understanding of AZ business processes, and project management is required to perform this role.

Major Responsibilities:

·Collaborate with both the Therapeutic Area Leadership Team (TA-LT) and Core Medical Teams (CMT) to develop the US-MA Medical and Operation Plans.

·Drive the successful execution of the US-MA Medical and Operational Plans

·Facilitate timely and effective decision making

·Anticipate, identify and resolve business risks/issues

·Develop impactful project communication plans

·Develop effective frameworks, presentations, and communications (written and oral)

·Define and monitor key performance indicators/metrics to measure initiative successes

·Facilitate and monitor the budget planning process within the therapeutic area.

·Run TA-LT and CMT meetings, provide strategic input into meeting agendas, and manage action items from those meetings

·Serve as a liaison between US-MA CMT and their Commercial counterparts (i.e. Brand Planning Leaders and Business Alignment Managers)

·Lead and manage strategic US-MA projects to ensure high-impact, timely, and on-budget delivery

·Provide direction and leadership to cross-functional project resources (both internal and external).

·Create process designs to streamline and simplify business processes.

·Enable best practice sharing and consistent use of commonly defined methods, processes, tools, and templates

Preferred Background:

·Minimum of 3 years of project management experience

·Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs experience

·Brand medical planning experience

·Oncology therapeutic area project management experience

·Atlas program experience for budgeting

·Demonstrated ability to lead and produce results in a matrix environment: "Lead without Authority"

·The Senior Project / Programme Manager leads a set of interrelated projects and / or Programme from initiation to close, to deliver effective solutions that meet approved customer and business needs.

·The role is accountable for determining and delivering solutions to approved budget and schedule commitments whilst meeting required quality and compliance standards.

·Focus areas include stakeholder management (varies by organization), risk management and delivery of business benefit.

·This role is also required to follow established project management standards and lead / contribute to continued development of the project / programme management capability.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

·5-7 years pharmaceutical industry experience

·Exceptional interpersonal, communication, leadership, and facilitation skills

·Demonstrated proficiency in all Microsoft applications

·Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline

Preferred Background:

·Minimum of 3 years of project management experience

Additional Information

Sneha Shrivastava

Sr Technical Recruiter

862 - 579 - 4236