Associate Director, Global Project Management

Associate Director, Global Project Management 
Gaithersburg, MD 

Global Portfolio & Project Management

Hybrid Work- on average 3 days a week from office

We're the global team that helps to make excellence and breakthroughs possible. Here, you can apply your skills and abilities to genuinely impact patients' lives. Join at an exciting time of growth through innovation for AstraZeneca. Shape this journey by reimagining the way we work, at every turn we're innovating and taking intelligent risks. We do this to steer the enterprise powering every function to run faster, more efficiently, and achieve more. 

The Associate Director of Global Project Management (GPM) is a pivotal leadership position responsible for managing global, cross-functional drug development teams and sub-teams to achieve key strategic objectives and deliver significant development, regulatory, and commercial achievements. This role provides top-level oversight and integration of the entire development process through to commercialization, complementing the Global Project Leader. 

What you'll do
 

Program Strategic Alignment 

• Provides input into the project strategy & vision through expertise in project management and navigates the therapy area and corporate governance processes 

• Ensures alignment of the project and operational deliverables to the strategy 

• Shares lessons learned and communicates those where relevant 

• May manage or lead elements of the team’s development plan or strategy as delegated by the Global Project Leader 

• Ensures appropriate linkages between project strategy and key internal processes (TA strategy and prioritization, corporate scorecard) and updates the relevant enterprise systems 

Team Leadership and Delivery 

• Manages cross-functional drug development teams and sub-teams and ensures an accurate and achievable project plan 

• Acts as a core team member and drives efficient operation of teams including overall plans, priorities, budget, and risk management 

• Accountable for driving an effective, efficient team environment and helping the Global Project Leader to build a cohesive, high-performing team 

• Facilitates GPT and sub-teams towards successful decision making and issue resolution. Focuses the GPT on the right activities at the right time and can handle most challenging project situations. 

• Creates and manages effective communication processes within the team 

• Proactively ensures the set-up and maintenance of information management practices in line with AZ standard processes and with support of the Information Management Lead 

• Ensures project data quality as per agreed standards 
   

Governance and Investment Decisions 

• Facilitates GPT towards effective governance decisions (e.g., Phase IDs, project revisions, etc.) and leads development of investment decision documentation 

• Integrates and provides information to both the team and senior management/governance bodies that allows efficient decision making influential network and ensures engagement at all levels prior to key decisions 

Planning, Monitoring, and Delivery 

• Ensures that the overall GPT deliverables, budgets, schedules, and performance standards are realistically set, governance approved, and attained, and that the project effectively fulfills all information management and business reporting requirements. 

• Maintains plans of the highest data quality,