Senior Principal Project Management and Operational Excellence (m/f/x), Global Centre for RWD/RWE
Daiichi Sankyo EuropeAbout the role
Passion for Innovation. Compassion for Patients.
With over 120 years of experience and more than 17,000 employees in over 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo is dedicated to discovering, developing, and delivering new standards of care that enrich the quality of life around the world.
In Europe, we focus on two areas: The goal of our Specialty Business is to protect people from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Europe, and help patients who suffer from it to enjoy every precious moment of life. In Oncology, we strive to become a global pharma innovator with competitive advantage, creating novel therapies for people with cancer.
Our European headquarters are in Munich, Germany, and we have affiliates in 13 European countries and Canada.
For our headquarters in all Europe we are seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the position:
Senior Principal Project Management and Operational Excellence (m/f/x), Global Centre for RWD/RWE
The Position:
The Senior Principal of CR2 Project Management and Operational Excellence (PM-OE) provides, with very limited direction, strategic planning, operational management, and oversight of Global CR2 non project initiatives including budgets, for Global CR2 RWD/RWE and able to executive effectively, while working in a fast moving and matrixed organization.
The CR2 PMOE is responsible for supporting efforts to achieve overall operational excellence across all activities and projects with the final goal of accelerating the business, in a compliant and efficient manner via the following responsibilities/activities:
- Leading and managing high priority non projects initiatives.
- Driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Ensuring streamlined and efficient communication within and outside the department.
- Managing risks and escalating issues in a timely manner.
- Financial and Budget planning and management and oversight of contract-to-purchase order (PO) process.
- Facilitating key meetings (internal CR2 Leadership Meetings, Compound Review meetings, cross-functional, cross-regional, vendor meetings, etc.).
- Tracking and communicating activities in terms of timing, anticipated risk, and mitigation of issues/conflict resolutions.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Project Management:
- Lead and manage functional and cross-functional CR2 non project initiatives (NPI) by, ensuring that teams deliver projects/activities successfully and on time and on budget, as per annual plan & objectives.
- Ensure close collaboration with Team and Functional leaders, establish a strategic plan for monitoring the activities, as per the Business Plan and priorities.
- Drive, with CR2 Functional and Team Leaders, the prioritization and planning of resources and develop rationale for annual resource planning.
- Establish milestones and metrics, in collaboration with CR2 Teams and develop a detailed project plan, in order to track progress and measure impact of the activity.
- Lead Support Teams and Functional Leaders with annual Business Planning process & associated documents, including proactive engagement with internal and external stakeholders to manage plan development.
- Proactively follow-up on action items and requests of CR2 Leaders.
- Lead issue resolution meetings. Lead risk identification, prioritization, and mitigation planning processes across the Department
- Generate and maintains strategic integrated CR2 project plans, project timelines, high quality risk management plans, and communication plans, as needed.
- Assess, implement, and maintain Project Management Systems for CR2.
Operational Excellence:
- Drive operational excellence initiatives from CR2 wide organiz
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