Senior Project Manager

Role Summary

The Senior Project Manager (SPM) is responsible for the facilitation of cross-functional global product workstreams in close partnership with the Product PM Lead and the Global Product Team Leader. The SPM will be responsible for creating and maintaining integrated project plans and ensuring compliance with governance and change control processes. This position may be remote with expectation of being in San Diego 1-2 times per quarter.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate cross-functional global product workstreams with the functional leads to develop, adapt, and drive integrated workstreams in support of the overall product strategy, which consider near and long-term cross functional impacts as well as region and country perspectives
• Develop integrated, cross-functional timelines and scenarios in support of the product strategy
• Interface with Finance team to ensure changes in budgets are captured in the forecast models. Work with Product PM Lead to manage cross functional team inputs for annual budgets, reforecasts, and long-range plans
• Responsible for meeting management including facilitation, setting agendas, recording, communicating, and following-through on action items, and tracking decisions
• Support integrating multiple indication timelines to a global product timeline that is maintained in real time and can be accessed by finance and management as necessary to make decisions
• Participate in drug development strategy sessions
• Provide support to project portfolio development and prioritization
• Manage large scope projects from initiation, planning, execution to control and closing phases
• Drive and oversee risk management, issue identification, and resolution and contingency planning for identified workstreams
• Manage monthly status reporting including program dashboards and management updates
• Assist in the creation of PM tools and templates
• Serve as conduit between Global Product Lead and/or Product PM and cross-functional stakeholders for identified workstreams
• Communicate to stakeholders on project status and influence strategy decisions

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 8 years’ experience in biological sciences or a related field; minimum 3 or more years of experience in Project Management in Biotech/Pharmaceutical Industry
• Drug Development knowledge with understanding of other functions relevant to the position including Discovery, Preclinical, Clinical Research, Clinical Operations, Manufacturing, Commercial, and Regulatory
• Experience leading and facilitating project team meetings, cross-functional communication and decision making, and ensuring ongoing alignment with internal/external stakeholders
• Strong facilitation and communications skills (both written and verbal)
• Proven ability to function effectively across a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders and constituents
• Demonstrated experience working on early or late-stage product development, including regulatory filings (BLA/NDA, sBLAs/sNDAs), and product life cycle management is preferred
• Highly collaborative with strong teamwork and relationship building skills
• Proficiency with project management practices, tools and methodology including Gantt Charts, Smartsheet, Power Point, SharePoint, One Pager, Power BI, integrated portfolio management, PPM platforms

Education

• None specified beyond the bachelor’s degree requirement in the qualifications

Additional Requirements

• Physical Demands: Sit for long periods; occasional walking and lifting up to 25 lbs; low to moderate noise; reasonable accommodations available
• Travel: Up to 5% of time