Global Project Manager

Job Title: Global Project Manager

Location: Cambridge, MA Morristown, NJ

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. Join Global Project & Planning Management as a Global Project Manager and you’ll act as a leader and facilitator of Global Project Teams, articulating strategy and execution, on projects ranging from those transitioning from Research to Development through submission and approval. The GPM drives activities across core team members to ensure alignment, develops scenario alternatives, identifies risks and mitigation plans, and manages variances in timing, resources and budget and ensures project quality.

The development Global Project Manager (GPM) is the only one together with the Global Project Head (GPH) to have a wide scope going from research to commercial requiring a deep knowledge of the contributions across all functions (CMC, clinical, regulatory, medical affairs, market access, commercial…) along the value chain and involved stakeholders, but also of the science and technical aspects to be able to implement and optimize the project strategy.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

The Global Project Manager main responsibilities are the following:

• Contribute to the definition project strategy and lead its translation into a realistic, robust and ambitious plan

• Drive the execution of the functional operational plan across functions in terms of timeline, resources, budget and quality

• Lead the risk management process encompassing proactive risk identification, quantification (probability and impact), risk strategy definition and mitigation plans

• Foster appropriate communication in close collaboration with all stakeholders, including regions, functions and platforms as needed. This includes project vision, reports and timely alerts.

• Lead all relevant project documentation such as Integrated Development Plans (IDPs), budget proposals and centralized project dashboards in partnership with units and platforms and other planning actors.

• Lead and facilitate decision making within the team environment and through governance committees

• Co-lead and motivate the team to be high performers

About You

Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in expanding roles in development or related field including experience and understanding of the current pharmaceutical and drug development process including sound understanding of the therapeutic area, or

• 5+ years professional experience on managing complex projects, including experience on a late-stage development project that has experienced interactions with health authorities; skills for bridging between different fields of expertise and demonstrated experience in leading multidisciplinary global teams would be of additional benefit.

Soft skills:

• Master communication tools and all channels of communication (from face to face, writing to remote video) and strategize communication methods

• Strategic and critical thinking to propose strategies and challenge the status quo.

Technical skills:

• Solid project management and planning skills: Planning, Resources & Costs

• Good knowledge of a planning tool (Planisware preferred)

• Strong risk management and problem-solving skills

• Strong project management, change management and strategic planning skills

• Proficient use of digital tools and AI-based technologies. Readiness to foster and adopt the company’s digital transformation

   

Education:

• Advanced degree in a scientific discipline (e.g. MS, PhD, MD, DVM) or related degree with substantial project management and / or project leadership experience.

• Business