Senior Manager, R&D Governance

Job Description

Duties

• Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of an organization to ensure compliance with ethical or regulatory standards, and oversee and lead stage gate portfolio governance committees and analyses to draw insights that address R&D senior management business questions, inform pipeline portfolio planning, and support R&D strategic decision making.
• Drive crisp, high-quality decision making within the governance model by ensuring decision makers are provided with rigorous, fact based quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Effectively communicate governance committee and portfolio decisions to leaders across the organization.
• Lead governance forums empowered to enable key R&D portfolio decisions.
• Lead forums in-line with charters and committee conduct guidelines and principles.
• Support the identification and implementation of continuous improvement efforts to help mature the current governance model and forums.
• Interface with project leaders and teams to guide and navigate on program progression through the governance model and processes.
• Provide governance committee process oversight to ensure process effectiveness through ownership of reports and metrics tracking, enforcement of AARs, maintenance of process and template documentation, and championing of continuous improvement.
• Drive governance committee forum documentation and dissemination to stakeholders.
• Ensure analytics have been captured in the appropriate systems.
• Ensure communication on trade-offs and prioritization decisions across the portfolio is timely, effective, and delivered to all appropriate stakeholders.
• Contribute to the processes and consolidation of reporting to support the R&D Portfolio Goals metrics (annual and multi-year) for inclusion in the Corporate Scorecard.
• Establish processes to efficiently store and maintain governance program and portfolio decisions and alongside key portfolio metrics.
• Telecommuting permitted up to 100%.

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Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in pharmaceutical sciences, life sciences, healthcare-related discipline, or related field, and 6 years of progressive experience in the job offered or a R&D Governance-related occupation in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry, or clinical experience.

Position also requires demonstrable experience with each of the following:

• Proven ability to work and interact confidently with senior members of the organization and appropriately challenge their assumptions.
• Demonstrated ability to promote and motivate stakeholders to adopt a data-driven culture of decision-making.
• Creating materials and communication for senior and executive leadership, and effectively communicating the information orally and in writing to facilitate decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to frame issues, problem solve both creatively and analytically, and manage projects.
• Knowledge of biotechnology or pharmaceutical R&D process and practices, decision-making frameworks, and program and study team structure.
• Cross-functional facilitation leading and managing teams across multiple geographies, organizational functions, and levels, and influencing without authority across functions and at all levels of a matrixed organization.
• Leading continuous improvement and process improvement initiatives.
• Hands on experience with change management concepts and strategies including communication, culture change, and training.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Why Biogen?

Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is what connects us as a team. We work together to overcome obstacles and to follow the science. We are resilient as we strive to make an impact on our patients’ lives and on changing the course of medicine. Together, we pioneer. Together, we thrive.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired.