Project Manager- Science

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. For more information, visit www.azurity.com.

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azurity's success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do. We seek highly motivated individuals with the dedication, integrity, and creative spirit needed to thrive in our organization.

Brief team/department description:

The EPMO Project Manager will play a vital role in ensuring the successful execution of cross-functional projects within Azurity Pharmaceuticals through a support position that will provide an active role within the team. This individual will provide operational and strategic support to project teams, ensuring alignment with company objectives through accurate delivery of True North, timelines ownership through A3s (project plans), and budgetary constraints through ownership of the KPI measurement. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented, highly organized professional with strong communication skills and experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.

Reporting directly to the Chief of Staff, the Science Project Manager will act as an internal consultant for organization corporate functions. This role will conduct a gap analysis of current activities to help Azurity scale for growth and drive success. The scope of projects may include governance, decision making, role clarity, operating models, reporting, resource planning, communications or team effectiveness. The ideal candidate will have experience with leading complex programs in Pharmaceuticals or PBMs and/or commercial launch activities. This is a collaborative role involving regular engagement with stakeholders to identify solutions that can be readily adopted within departments and the organization.

Principle Responsibilities:

• Ensuring process discipline throughout the product lifecycle process through consistent, rigorous application of the Management System. Train team members as needed.
• Work closely with colleagues within the Science organization
  • Meeting setup, meeting quality and adherence to meeting cadence
  • Author for all asset A3s (owned by VP Category Mgmt.)
  • Documentation of actions
  • Drive action items to closure ensuring cross functional owners are held accountable for completing responsible action items
• Connect the dots between activities, identify missed actions or interdependencies and sanity-check decisions for unforeseen consequences. Drive continuous improvement in process.
• Maintain project plans, meeting minutes, action logs and provide clear communication on updates to the EPMO and science team
• This role will not have any direct reports, however the ability to drive cross functional teams, hold people accountable to the conclusion of action items and cross functional collaboration is an evaluated measure for this role

 This should have 7-10 CORE responsibilities. It should not be a list of every single task.

• Socializes, manages and makes recommendations to improve best practices, including professional development of team members within the Enterprise Project Management Office (EMPO)
• Oversees complex, cross-functional initiatives including structuring and managing programs, projects, overseeing the analytics process, helping to forge consensus among key stakeholders and ensuring adequate business cases to support the work
• Drives the execution of the Management System across all corporate areas and be the key resource in shepherding the Management System process across the organization
• Create and drive the facilitation of the monthly operating committee meetings which includes the ability to collect all necessary KPI data from across the company