Director, Technical Program Manager

Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. is a global pharmaceutical company based in Japan with key operations in the U.S. (Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.), Canada (Sumitomo Pharma Canada, Inc.) and Europe (Sumitomo Pharma Switzerland GmbH) focused on addressing patient needs in oncology, urology, women's health, rare diseases, psychiatry & neurology, and cell & gene therapies. With several marketed products in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, a diverse pipeline of early- to late-stage assets, and in-house advanced technology capabilities, we aim to accelerate discovery, research, and development to bring novel therapies to patients sooner. For more information on SMPA, visit our website https://www.us.sumitomo-pharma.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Job Overview

We are currently seeking a dynamic, highly motivated, and experienced individual for the position of Associate Director, Technical Program Manager that will oversee the execution of complex technical projects within an organization, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and aligned with business goals by managing cross-functional teams, mitigating technical risks, and driving the development and implementation process across the entire project lifecycle, often leveraging their strong technical background to bridge the gap between engineering teams and business stakeholders.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Team and Organization
  • Program Team Leadership
    • Program-managing all projects / workstreams within the Data Platforms department
    • Directing cross-functional multi-stream distributed engineering teams
    • Identifying day-to-day priorities, breaking down requirements and assigning tasks
    • Utilizing mixed Agile/Waterfall approach as required for each workstream
    • Organizing the team by leading recurring internal standups and planning sessions
    • Leveraging Jira to plan, assign, track and report on the implementation progress
  • Internal Collaboration
    • Liaising, Partnering and Collaborating with various internal teams outside Data Platforms to remove project impediments, mitigate risks, assess dependencies and coordinate activities:
      • Business Operations
      • Data Strategy Management
      • Network and Cloud Architecture
      • Information Security and Governance
      • Commercial & Medical Affairs
      • Enterprise Service Delivery
      • Marketing Operations
      • Commercial Insights & Analytics
      • Program Management Office
  • Vendor and 3rd Party Management
    • Primary technical point of contact for all 3rd Party Vendors that collaborate with Data Platforms
    • Organizing and leading discussions with external partners to set goals and priorities, align on scope of work, coordinate and ensure SMPA-external collaboration, assess/mitigate risks and remove impediments
    • Assessing and coordinating UAT / acceptance of vendor deliverables by SMPA
    • Coordinating vendor onboarding to SMPA as needed and establishing shared documentation repositories
    • External Parties in scope: Beghou, Precision, Centris, Ogilvy, XPonentL, Veeva, Iqvia, Slipstream, Medispend, MMIT, Pfizer, CMI, Indegene, Knipper, Symphony and others
  • Infrastructure / Development Operations coordination
    • Close Interaction and partnership with Network and Cloud Architecture Team on all Infrastructure / DevOps activities and dependencies
    • Weekly meetings for cross-team alignment and knowledge sharing to promote support for core AWS services, release, timeline, resource and cost management for the commercial operations platform
• Technical Program and Delivery Management
  • Scope Management
    • Hosting and moderating requirements elicitation sessi