Manager, PST Program Management

Job Description

Purpose:

This position reports into the Clinical Sciences (CS) Product Office in the CS Strategic Operations organization. The CS Product Office works collaboratively and strategically with colleagues across the product lifecycle to identify, evaluate, understand and communicate the safety profile of our drugs to protect patients worldwide.
The Product Safety Team Project Management group (PST PM) plays a critical role in shaping and driving the strategic priorities of the PST through providing exceptional and strategic project management leadership. The PST is a high-profile, high-impact team that leads and owns safety decisions and strategy across the product lifecycle. The team partners with stakeholders across the product lifecycle to provide innovative safety-driven strategies, which will maximize product benefit-risk for patients.

Responsibilities:

• In partnership with PST Lead, shape the PST strategic priorities and drive implementation by applying strong understanding of the Therapeutic Area, regulatory requirements, signal management & project management to influence characterization of the compound/product safety & effectiveness profile. This responsibility will be accomplished through building a strong and trusted relationship with the PST Lead and core team members.
• In partnership with the PST Lead, manage multiple Product Safety Teams across multiple Therapeutic Areas. This includes meeting planning and facilitation, meeting minute documentation and post-meeting/general team management activities. Increase meeting productivity and advance decision-making effectively through the application of strong skillsets in influencing, leadership, relationship building, proactive-ness, curiosity, active engagement and developing strategic thinking.
• Proactively utilize experience and knowledge to support the PST Lead in framing safety issues and making decisions. Anticipate possible outcomes of safety issues and provide guidance to the PST Lead so that he/she can be proactively prepared. Systematically analyze the impact of safety decisions and connect the dots across other decisions, discussions, and actions. Communicate perspectives to PST Lead and collaborate with other PST PMs and the PST Lead on solutions.
• In partnership with PST Lead, manage escalation of safety issues and decisions to management and Safety Review Board (SRB). Create escalation documentation (e. g. SRB presentations) and help prepare the PST Leads for discussions. Manage the close-out of SRB action items for assigned PSTs.
• Support the PST Lead in strengthening internal partnership/influence and establishing their role as the company leader of safety issues related to their compounds/products. Identify new opportunities for the PST Lead to build relationships and present thought leadership to peers.
• Support the PST Lead in strengthening external engagement/presence by providing recommendations on channels for expanding external engagement including topic ideas for publications, conferences to present at key industry relationships to develop, etc. Support the creation of content for external engagement activities.
• Drive timely development of key PST deliverables by planning and facilitating productive working sessions to create deliverables; share perspectives; push the thinking to create robust deliverables, suggest improvements, and connect the dots.
• Support inspection /audit readiness activities. Engage in supporting PST-related inspection/audit activities and CAPAs/commitments.

Qualifications

• BA/BS/MA/MS (nursing or pharmacy, biologic/medical science, or healthcare professional preferred), with 3+ years clinical or pharmaceutical industry experience (advanced degree is preferred)
• Experience in one of the following areas is preferred: clinical operations management, clinical study management, drug development, risk management, and/or drug safety operations
• At least 3 years hands-on project management experience in leading cross-functional projects within a global company, including hands-on experience applying project management tools and templates.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills. Should be able to adapt communication style to suit different audiences.
• Effective facilitation skills. Must be able to facilitate group discussions.
• Ability to work independently, influence stakeholders, and present sound business strategies.
• Ability to demonstrate effectiveness in working in a multidisciplinary, matrix team situation.
• Ability to adapt in a quickly changing environment, ability to engage and forge relationships with team members across diverse functions to facilitate information sharing and maintain a continuous flow of information.

Additional Information

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