Senior Manager, US Medical Immunology, Project Manager

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Position Summary

Independently and proactively leads a matrixed cross-functional medical project management team within US Medical.  This role will be a strategic and operational portfolio partner for the medical lead and team in identifying, planning, risk identification/mitigation and delivering on key portfolio related priorities.  This includes supporting and partnering on key portfolio processes supporting Medical, and work streams.  Examples: medical planning, annual portfolio budgeting, and portfolio governance/decision making.  The role will partner across key strategic/operational functions across the matrix (Clinical Operations, finance, development teams, and business operations, etc.) to support One Medical Voice, prioritization and decision making.  Leading program/projects with passion, innovation, speed and accountability.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Medical Lead to facilitate the development, execution and strategic reviews of Medical Plans for assigned products. Supports the efforts to align the Medical Plan with TA portfolio objectives/strategies

• Support transparency of the Medical Data Generation/ Investigator Sponsored Research book of work, including decision-making and support operational improvements in that space by partnering with the Medical Data Generation leads.

• Support the activities of multi-disciplinary groups to meet the strategic objectives and implementation milestones outlined in the Medical plan(s)

• Maintain Medical plans, manage dependencies across functions, and provide transparency to medical leads and senior leaders. Facilitate comprehensive project plans and progress reports for team leads, senior management and other stakeholders, as needed.

• Track & measure performance and identify risk areas or barriers impeding successful execution. Work with teams, Medical leadership, and/or senior management to resolve

• Partner with Medical Team Lead/core team to facilitate medical matrix team meetings, ensure the agenda is focused on key deliverables, risk management, issue identification and resolution. Ensure that key actions and agreements are understood and the team is held accountable for their commitments

• Partner with Finance and Medical leads to facilitate the budget process including trade-off discussions and on an ongoing basis ensure the brand budgets (including facilitation of annual budget, monthly projections, accruals, variance analysis and budget planning for the coming year) are on track.

• Identify, develop and implement new processes to facilitate continued evolution of the Operations function and improve efficiency of the Medical organization.

• Build relationships with key stakeholders, including Development Teams, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Commercial and Medical team members, to influence strategic alignment on key Medical objectives.

• Ensure Medical Team members are fully represented in the decision-making process and knowledge exchange is taking place.

• Ensure key communication points are captured and disseminated.

Qualifications & Experience

• A Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience in  pharmaceutical research, development, or commercialization.  (science background strongly recommended). An advanced degree (e.g., MS, MBA) is a plus.

• This position requires a solid understanding of drug development and commercialization.

• Project management foundation and relevant experience