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Kyowa Kirin, Inc.- U.S. · 1 hour ago

Senior Manager, Global Project Management

Princeton, NJ

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$145K/yr - $163K/yr

7+ years exp

Kyowa Kirin is a fast-growing global specialty pharmaceutical company that applies state-of-the-art biotechnologies to discover and deliver novel medicines. 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.

Pharmaceuticals

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Project Management CertificationPharmaceutical Industry KnowledgeMS Office SuiteProject Management TechnologiesRisk ManagementCommunication ManagementCoachingLeadership SkillsTeam CollaborationMentoring

Required

Bachelor's Degree with Scientific Focus Required

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

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 learned and status reports

Proficient in use of telecommunications technology to hold in person & virtual meetings

Deep knowledge/skills of theoretical & practical aspects of Project Management (PM) across all phases of a project

Requires up to 10% domestic and international travel