Senior Manager, Global Project Management

Kyowa Kirin is a fast-growing global specialty pharmaceutical company that applies state-of-the-art biotechnologies to discover and deliver novel medicines in four disease areas: bone and mineral; intractable hematologic; hematology oncology; and rare disease.  A Japan-based company, our goal is to translate science into smiles by delivering therapies where no adequate treatments currently exist, working from drug discovery to product development and commercialization. In North America, we are headquartered in Princeton, NJ, with offices in California, North Carolina, and Mississauga, Ontario.

Summary:

Senior Manager, Global Drug Development Project Manager, will serve as a global drug development project manager and provide professional project management services to the Global Development Organization (GDO) projects. The Senior Manager, Global Drug Development Project Manager will manage integrated drug development projects and ensure projects are delivered on time, budget, and quality using proven project management decision support tools and strong leadership skills. The Associate Director, Global Drug Development Project Manager will provide cross-organizational support to accomplish annual business plan goals.

Essential Functions:

•    Serves as a critical integrator on the development project team and applies the proven professional PM tools & techniques that ensure success coupled with the leadership skills to rapidly build and motivate productive teams.
•    Budget Management: creation & management of accurate integrated budgets, monitoring of project budget throughout course of project and proposing revisions to project budget as needed in line with project plans.
•    Schedule Management: creation of an integrated multidisciplinary project schedule in collaboration with project team members, that represents the full scope of the project with critical path. Monitoring project progress and deliverables compared to the governance approved project plan, and proposing revisions to the project schedule, as needed.
•    Resource Management: creation of FTE estimates in collaboration with project team members, monitoring of FTE usage throughout the course of the project and proposing revisions to resource plan as needed.
•    Risk Management: identify, monitor, and report on the risk factors influencing clinical, CMC, non-clinical, and regulatory development plans. Support team members to identify and implement risk mitigation plans and ensure cross-functional risk management and reporting.
•    Communication Management: Facilitates project level communication across functions, departments and regions and manages core team documents. Ensures transparency of project progress across the organization. 
•    Ensures optimal team performance by identifying and sharing best practices and lessons learned. Ensuring lessons learned are institutionalized to ensure positive future outcomes.
•    PM Systems: Utilizes existing PM tools & technologies to create and manage timelines, visualizations and to enable collaboration across the teams virtually.
•    Understands organizational requirements to effectively manage and progress projects, including governance meetings and approval processes, and responsibilities of other functions/divisions. Ensures project teams follow the global development framework and governance process.
•    Contributes to Global Project Management function objectives, tasks and goals.
•    Contribute to and lead change management efforts throughout the organization.
•    Able to influence the team by driving results without authority and work in a global environment.
•    Collaborates with other project management functions in One Kyowa Kirin (OKK) to progress business objectives, share and standardize best practices.
•    Collaborates with alliance partners, as needed.
•    Identifies opportunities to provide coaching and mentoring globally.

Requirements:

Education
Bachelor’s Degree with Scientific Focus Required. 
Project Management Certification (ie PMP), Six Sigma certification, knowledge of Pharmaceutical Industry preferred. Knowledge of US, EU and Japan clinical development regulations is desirable.

Experience
7+ yrs in pharmaceutical industry experience including 5+ yrs in a relevant drug development Project Management role.
Thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of Project Management. Strong Project Management skills across all phases of a project. Additionally, experience working with partners/alliance management is preferred.

Technical Skills
Skilled in MS Office Suite including Excel, Power Point and Word. Experience using Project Management technologies (ie MSPO or Planisware) to build/ manage timelines, budgets, risks, lessons learne