Cell Therapy Functional Program Manager

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Oversee outsourcing and facilitate the delivery of Cell Therapy Enterprise activities across portfolio projects, currently focused on preclinical programs.
• ● Ensure that these activities are delivered within agreed timelines, budget, and quality standards.
• ● Ensure that project teams adopt the required tools, processes, and outsourcing ways of working.
• ● Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of existing tools and processes, identifying opportunities for improvement and ensuring business continuity in scientific project management.
• ● Solve complex problems across a variety of projects, while initiating and driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of project delivery.
• ● Develop and maintain process and technology required to effectively manage a portfolio of projects.
• ● Provide project management support to cell therapy portfolio projects.
• ● Ensure preclinical Cell Therapy Enterprise project aspects are delivered on time and budget.
• ● Establish a positive project environment by facilitating team interactions.
• ● Responsible for timely outsourcing of preclinical Cell Therapy Enterprise activities, taking into consideration the wider project landscape ensuring correct scheduling of tasks, risk and opportunity management, reporting and resource or cost control.
• ● Collaborate closely with Cell Therapy PSL around Cell Therapy business unit non-clinical internal resources.
• ● Provide project management expertise to support the design and interpretation of cross functional project plans.
• ● Proactively drive development and implementation of new project management strategies through use of new or current systems and resources
• ● Act as a technical owner within Scientific Project Management with a deep understanding of processes and systems employed.
• ● Identify opportunities to improve the methodology and provide practical solutions.
• ● Lead and implement globally agreed Scientific Project Management strategies including process and technology related to the function.
• ● Identify and apply project management techniques to improve the project management process and provide practical solutions to common issues.
• ● Communicate new processes or strategies to all project teams to define future procedures.
• ● Keep own knowledge of best practices and new relevant developments up to date.
• ● Contribute to the development, sharing and project management support of new procedures, tools or techniques to improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own area.

Requirements

• ● Fluency in English is required.
• ● Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline.
• ● Experience in Scientific Project Management.
• ● Knowledge of relevant legislation and new developments around Project, Change, Business Improvement and Strategy Management and Scientific Project Management.
• ● Experience as a project or change manager in a pharmaceutical or clinical environment.
• ● Ability to apply statistical techniques in the analysis of data from clinical studies or other relevant areas.
• ● Typically need to interact with people in at least 2 countries, but frequently both UK, SE and US.
• ● Advanced degree within the field.