Sr. Project Manager, R&D - Biogen West Coast Hub

Role Summary

The Sr. Project Manager, R&D - Biogen West Coast Hub provides strategic and operational drug discovery and development leadership across the West Coast Hub portfolio, integrating drug development across functions and translating strategy into execution to deliver medicines to patients.

Responsibilities

• Ensure internal functional alignment, create and maintain integrated project timelines and scenarios, track and verify completion of project deliverables and milestones, identify and mitigate project risks, and ensure timely communication to relevant partners via regular and ad-hoc status reports.
• Collaborate with Project Teams to create and execute project plans and delivery of project milestones
• Drive decision making and team effectiveness
• Manage project team meetings
• Collaborate with other West Coast Hub program managers and leadership to ensure alignment across the portfolio and indications
• Partner with the Business Operations & Analytics team to develop, update, and optimize internal dashboards for the West Coast Hub and broader team visibility
• Facilitate ongoing training for team members, ensuring consistent utilization of SharePoint sites and internal tools to support standardized workflows and cross-team alignment

Qualifications

• Bachelor‚Äôs Degree in Sciences or Engineering is required. Advanced Degree preferred. PMP certification is a plus.
• Minimum five years of experience in an R&D scientific and/or R&D project management role is required.
• Proficient understanding of R&D drug discovery and development processes, in one or more drug modalities, in the biopharmaceutical industry is required. Experience with late-stage development, marketed products, and/or managing collaborations is a plus.
• Outstanding ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing; ability to communicate to a broad range of stakeholders.
• Commitment to a customer-first culture and motivation to solving complex problems and leading teams to success.
• Proven ability to network and collaborate across multiple teams with flexible, positive attitude and ability to get results.
• Proficiency with integrated timeline/gantt chart development and technical experience with project management systems & collaboration tools is a plus. (e.g. Planisware, Smartsheet, OnePager Pro/Express, MS Teams, O365 Sharepoint)
• Regulatory/Filing team support is a plus.