EPMO Franchise Program Director

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:

At Azurity Pharmaceuticals, we are bringing new medication solutions to patients that are overlooked. To ensure that we remain best in class, we have several critical finance related projects that require project management expertise. These projects require cross functional communication and dedicated project plans utilized through the Azurity Management System. A Program Director within the Enterprise Project Management Office will be responsible for leading cross functional teams through the action items necessary to bring dedicated alignment and completion of the project that the Program Director is responsible for. The ideal candidate will be able to hold teams accountable whilst immersing oneself into the project to meet the overarching deliverable. Our mission is to serve overlooked patients, and we only achieve that with an enthusiastic Program Directors who can execute effectively and efficiently. 

Principle Responsibilities:

• Ensuring process discipline throughout the PLM process through consistent, rigorous application of the Management System. Train team members as needed.
  • Manage products through Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) process across stages 1-9 (‘cradle to grave’), Support A3 cross-functional teams. Manage adherence to stage-gate criteria at each stage.
  • Define objectives, scope, deliverables, interdependencies and timelines at all stages of the PLM process with all cross- functional stakeholders
    • Meeting setup, meeting quality and adherence to meeting cadence
    • Author for all asset A3s
    • Drive action items to closure ensuring cross functional owners are held accountable for completing responsible action items
    • Check adherence to stage-gate requirements
  • Lead launch planning pre-approval activities:
    • Naming product, securing URL, informing Legal to submit trademark name
  • Develop high familiarity with product launch activities so as to be able to coordinate the complex interplay of launch activities at PLM5
  • Manage and coordinate logo/labelling development with internal and external stake holders. Provide timely support for FDA queries.
  • Connect the dots between activities, identify missed actions or interdependencies and sanity-check decisions for unforeseen consequences. Drive continuous improvement in process.
  • Integration of licensed/acquired products into PLM process
  • Maintain RACIs for all PLM stages
  • Maintain documentation repository across stage gates

This section should include relevant qualifications and education requirements.

• 10+ years project management experience
• 8+ years of pharmaceutical experience
• Bachelors degree required
• Masters degree or equivalent is preferred
  
  

This section should be specific on experience qualifications, relevant degrees, and what is required vs. preferred.

 

All below are required

• Global understanding of pharmaceutical product planning and execution including new product launches, product marketing, sales, clinical, & regulatory development
• Outstanding project management capability, and knowledge of the Management System in particular
• Experience with the pharmace