Associate Director, Project Management

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Job Description

We are seeking an Associate Director, Global Program Management who will be based in Foster City, CA (hybrid, minimal 3 days onsite).

Job Responsibilities

• In partnership with project leaders contributes to the development, approval, and execution of the project strategy.
• Co-chairs timely, efficient, and action-oriented team meetings and is responsible for coordinating team operations, communications and verifying the timely achievement of deliverables. Ensures that meeting agendas, materials and minutes are drafted, vetted and shared in a timely manner.
• Directs moderately complex project communications and ensures that stakeholders are informed of project activities and their status.
• Manages project data in enterprise planning tool, Planisware and partners with other project managers to align and validate data.
• Organizes preparation of high-quality documents for review by governance committees in collaboration with the project team and represents the team at Governance meetings, as required.
• Facilitates the design, implementation, and life cycle development plan updates.
• Provide leadership to the team to anticipate and identify project risks which pose a challenge to achieving strategic goals; proposes and implements plans to mitigate risks or develop contingencies.
• Provides project documents and information for monthly reports, quarterly budget reviews, quarterly investor relations/Board updates.
• Can facilitate the formation of early-stage development teams with functional area leadership and guide transition of projects between development phases.
• Support departmental continuous improvement and optimization initiatives.
• Ensures project work complies with established practices, policies and processes.
• Responsible for managing one complex or two less complex project teams.
• Works in partnership with project leaders to ensure timely, efficient, and effective meetings, and to ensure adequate progress on team activities between meetings.
• Co-Chairs Project Team meetings and is responsible for coordinating complex team operations and communications.
• Directs project communications and ensures that all project customers are fully informed and knowledgeable of project activities and their status.
• Organizes Project Management support for various functional areas on the Project, attends sub-team meetings; organizes ad hoc working groups.
• Ensures that Development Plans integrate timing, scope and resources.
• Proposes and implements plans to resolve such issues and execute corrective actions.
• May author sections of Project Team documents.
• Represents the Project Team to the Development Project Reviews. Organizes preparation of complex documents for Senior Management review

Basic qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience and a BS in science or; 8+ years of relevant experience and a MS or MBA
• Experience should include 5 years of participation in cross-functional project management activities.
• 5+ years of relevant experience and a PhD in a scientific field or a PharmD, DVM or MD degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience to include 5+ years of leading cross-functional project management activities within the pharmaceutical and related industry, building, managing, and articulating comprehensive, complex, cross-functional plans.
  PMP (Project Management Professional) or other PM certification, or equivalent a plus.
• Strong knowledge of the drug development process and comprehensive understanding of and application of principles, concepts, practices, and standards of pharmaceutical project management.
• Expertise in developing and managing project scope, deliverables, risks and resource requirements.
• Leadership presence with the ability to translate strategy into action.
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to summarize and present complex information in a clear and concise manner.

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