Director, Franchise EPMO Portfolio Management

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. For more information, visit www.azurity.com.

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azurity's success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do. We seek highly motivated individuals with the dedication, integrity, and creative spirit needed to thrive in our organization.

Reporting directly to the Vice President Business Operations, the Director of the EPMO Operations for the portfolio management group. The EPMO Director will support the VP, Francise Portfolio Management to provide effective oversight of the product lifecycle process.  Drive project execution in line with the Management System best practices, ensuring excellence in A3 development, convening cross-functional team members, ensuring disciplined meeting cadence, effective meetings, and diligent recording and follow-up of actions.  Join dots, sanity-check decisions and spot missed interdependencies.  Ensure adherence to best practices across all functions including the launch playbook and act as a thought-partner to the VP, Francise Portfolio Management in driving the process at all stages. Constantly look for process enhancements to provide continuous improvement. 

A deep understanding of project plans and how to get a project off the ground through to completion is a key attribute that is needed to be successful in this role. This is a collaborative role involving regular engagement with cross functional stakeholders to identify solutions that can be utilized to ensure our product launches are successful. The ideal candidate will be a quick learner who can work in an extremely fast paced organization and pivot from one objective to the next quickly. A working understanding of the Science organization and their requirements is key to the success of this position. Professional self-sufficiency and decision-making aptitude will help the candidate succeed. The candidate will be a critical thinker and will not require a large amount of handholding, but instead be able to problem solve and provide direct recommendations to the cross functional project team.

Having the ability to develop, guide and lead the product launch process will be a key objective for this role and will be an immediate need for the organization.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensuring process discipline throughout the product lifecycle process through consistent, rigorous application of the Management System. Train team members as needed.
• Work closely with the VP Category Management and all cross functional stakeholders to define objectives, scope, deliverables, interdependencies and timelines at all stages of the PLM process.
  • Meeting setup, meeting quality and adherence to meeting cadence
  • Author for all asset A3s (owned by VP Category Mgmt.)
  • Documentation of actions and support for VP in stage-gate documentation
  • Drive action items to closure ensuring cross functional owners are held accountable for completing responsible action items
  • Check adherence to stage-gate requirements
• Develop high familiarity with product launch activities to be able to coordinate the complex interplay of launch activities
• Connect the dots between activities, identify missed actions or interdependencies and sanity-check decisions for unforeseen consequences. Drive continuous improvement in process.
• Maintain RACIs for all product lifecycle stages
• This role will not have any direct reports, however the ability to drive cross functional teams, hold people accountable to the conclusion of action items and cross functional collaboration is an evaluated measure for this role

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• PMP, CSM or similar project management certification
• Pharmaceutical or PBM project management