Associate Director, Technical Project Leader

Overview

The Associate Director, Technical Project Leader (AD-TPL) leads the TPL group and as part of the Process Development Leadership Team (PD-LT), provides strong scientific and administrative leadership to both the TPL group and the overall Process Development (PD) department. AD-TPL play a pivotal role in setting annual goals and objectives and long-range planning for the TPL group. The Associate Director creates high-level business strategy for the department, oversees the management of resources and coordinates activities across multiple departments to achieve business objectives and revenue goals. The AD-TPL also serves as the strategic leader and advocate for the team’s escalations with upper management and external parties.

The ideal candidate for this role will be responsible for the successful technical delivery of gene therapy, vaccine, and advance medicine projects at FDBT as well as providing expert technical advice as needed to other functions within FDB sites. The individual will be responsible for supervising a group of TPLs and providing senior technical and scientific leadership to the department as part of the PD Leadership Team.

This position supports the process development and manufacturing organizations with their associated revenue and profit plans as they relate to the on-time delivery of analytical and process development milestones.

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Essential Functions:

The individual will have extensive technical and scientific knowledge of vaccine, gene therapy and advance medicines development and manufacturing, gained from practical experience, and will have a high degree of familiarity with GMP manufacturing assets at FDBT. Knowledge/expertise should be practical and focused on the effective technical oversight of projects via:

· Responsible for leadership of the TPL team and ultimate technical accountability for delivery and support of program in the clinical lifecycle.

· Enhances and maintains a reputation of excellence to achieve high levels of client satisfaction through on-time (meeting milestones), on-cost (resourcing via cost model) and right first time delivery of high quality, robust programs.

· Resolves conflicts and removes obstacles that stand in the way of accomplishing project goals and objectives and drives scalation resolution ate the JPT level before rising to higher levels.

· Ensure that TPLs design experimental plans which maximize the change of success and make the best use of FDB accumulated knowledge.

· Consicely updates the Head of PD of technical problems encountered in the delivery of projects to ensure he/she has the information required for any business critical decisions. Further, works collaboratively with the PD Leadership Team to resolve complex technical issues.

· Defines and implements proceures and practices for the TPL group which will result in increase efficiency and customer satisfaction. Drives efficiency via implementation/use of planning tools and tracks progress with appropriate key performance indicators.

· Builds and nurtures motivated and high achieving project teams and direct reports throug excellent leadership (ie, empathy, servant leadership, accountability) and people management skills. Seeks feedback regularly to seld and for team to promote growth and continuous improvement.

· Responsible for providing ongoing coaching and feedback and conducting performance reviews for direct reports. Ensures consistent standards within the TPL teams for the business unit.

· Contribute to the growth of the company ”know how” and increased efficiency in PD program delivery by ensuring effective capture of knowledge arising from the programs under their direction and sharing acros the TPL group and the wider PD community within FDB.

· Keep up to date with the latest scientific developments which are pertinent to FDB and to bing to the attention of the Head of PD &CSO proposals to incorporate the latest technological advances in the biologics field to FDB workflows.

· Responsible for taking a leadership role in the day-to-day operations of the project, able to handle multiple priorities quickly and efficiently including conducting and evaluating training for new or current team members and delagating tasks appropriately.

· All other duties as may be assigned.

 

Required Skills & Abilities:

· Ability to direct the activities of a functional group within a department.

· Possesses considerable independence to coduct projects.

· Ability to create and nurture an enviroment that encourages brainstorming and collaboration around idea generation, experimental techniques, and sharing of knowledge and resources.

· Extensive experience in the Biotechnology/ Pharmaceutical industry.

· Capable of full technical leadership and ownership of clinical phase programs and the a