Associate Director - Project Management - FSP - Drug Development exp

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

The PPD FSP Solution:

PPD's Functional Service Provider division partner with and serve as an extension of our PPD team, supporting our customers key functions. We cover customer needs on every level, allowing them to do more with less, with an uncompromising commitment to quality. We deploy the same top-tier talent in ALL engagement models. Exceptionally trained, rigorously supported and technologically empowered to help customers manage capacity and set programs up for success.

Joining within our PPD FSP functional area, allows you to join the renowned PPD CRO and still gain invaluable client dedicated experience.

Our client, a global mid-sized biotech company, focuses on developing innovative treatments for patients with autoimmune diseases. This fast-growing, international organization has a strong scientific foundation. If you're looking for a place where your work, in partnership with others, can have real impact—and where you're encouraged challenge yourself and contribute to breakthrough solutions , the Associate Director, Drug Development role could be a great fit.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Associate Director within Drug Development will oversee high-level plans and progress for asset development, from pre-clinical stages to commercial launch. This role involves close collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure timely availability of documents and alignment with corporate strategy. Act as primary point of contact when concerning integrated cross-functional project planning and status. They closely collaborate with stakeholders who own, contribute to, and/or manage the project and the impact of decisions and changing circumstances. This to drive timely availability of documents as planned.
 

A day in the Life:

Project Lead responsibilities:

• Serves as the primary contact between the sponsor and the organization at the project level.

• On projects where the scope requires, ensures clear delineation in responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads (such as lead in a specific region, lead for a specific vendor(s) or subset of delivery).

• Drives and owns the overall delivery of the cross-functional project (time, cost, quality).

• Ensures financial stewardship at a project level by demonstrating an intimate understanding of the contract, resource alignment to budget, management of Out of Scope activity, drive the Con Mod process/negotiations and team execution to timelines.

• Establishes, communicates and manages customer expectations to achieve optimal delivery during the project.

• Drives Risk Identification and Issue Resolution at project level (RBQM/RESOLVE).

• Ensures project team compliance with organization policies, SOPs, ICH- GCP, regulatory and project specific requirements

Oversight Director responsibilities:

• Accountable for strategic indication or client-specific portfolio management within a Therapeutic Unit.

• Expertly navigates the need to dive in/dive out of situations while ensuring the Project Lead remains empowered .

• Provokes critical thinking in Project Lead related to execution of delivery, financial negotiations and prioritization.

• Provides insight into proposal strategy in prep for bid defense.

• Works with Therapeutic Unit Head in development of business growth strategies. 

• Maintains awareness and engages as appropriate in the Con Mod process.

• Communicates with People Manager(s) to support the development of the employee providing expertise and perspective related to client needs, indication and therapeutic knowledge.

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