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Biopharm R&D Project Manager - King of Prussia, Pennsylvania [01/20/2010]

Basic qualifications:

- Minimum academic requirements Bachelor’s degree.
- At least 10 years pharmaceutical, healthcare or related industry experience.
- At least 5 years experience working as a member of drug development teams
- Good understanding of the principals of project planning and execution
- Demonstrated ability to effectively utilize project planning software (eg MS Project, OPX2, Primevera etc) in the management of projects
- Demonstrated understanding of the CMC, Commercial and Regulatory environment, especially with respect to Biopharmaceutical

Preferred qualifications:

- At least 5 years years experience as a project manager on drug development projects
- Knowledge and experience within the Biopharmaceutical industry desirable. In depth knowledge and experience within the Biopharmaceutical industry, particularly a clear understanding of the CMC, Commercial and Regulatory environment preferred.
- Demonstrated matrix management skills and clear ability work effectively in cross functional team environment
- Demonstrated aptitude for managing multiple projects and priorities
- Demonstrated effective communication and negotiation skills for a wide variety of audiences, including senior management
- Well organized and methodical approach to problem solving
- Ability to apply leadership skills to achieve expedited project delivery. This includes skills in delegation, supervision and planning, fostering teamwork and thinking strategically
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal, communications and negotiation skills for a wide variety of audiences, including senior management.
- Demonstrated strong influencing skills and personal resilience.
- Ability to understand and resolve conflicting needs of key stakeholders.
- Strong presentation skills
- Passion for learning and practicing the profession of Project Management, Portfolio Management and Alliance Management
- Cost Control / Budgetary management experience
- Formal Project Management certification (PMP) or equivalent experience but not essential

Details:

The Biopharm R&D Alliances, Portfolio and Project Management Team will work in partnership with colleagues within GSK and our external partners to deliver excellence in project, alliance and portfolio management. We commit to delivering real value to the organisation by maintaining a high customer focus whilst managing the operational plans and their associated budgets, alliances and portfolio, using the most effective, ‘fit-for-purpose tools’ and practices that we can access. When acting as members of project teams, we will be integral to ensuring delivery of project strategy through helping to define objectives and providing support to ensure that issues and risks are identified and managed appropriately. We will deliver with integrity, passion and precision to meet commitments we make to teams and individuals. We will continue to facilitate around options and problem solving and act as advocates for effective communication between team members and stakeholders.

• Responsible for managing the operational plans and the cross functional delivery of the project strategy through the following key accountabilities:
• Planning the Project Strategy & Options Development – driving and contributing to the planning process and options development & analysis.
• Executing the Project through the Development Plan – leads team in the creation and delivery of an optimal cross functional development plan
• Controlling the Project through Project Manager Deliverables – preparing and/or partnering with others to provide accurate project controls deliverables and utilizes same to manage progress to time and budget.
• Risk Analysis and Management
• Information and Communication Management
• Team Effectiveness

- Direct, manage and drive implementation for optimal development of multiple projects from programme start/target selected to life cycle management.
- Accountable for development and quality of integrated project plan (timelines, milestones, interdependencies, resources, value and risks) and identification / management of the critical path(s)
- Accountable for creation and maintenance of the project budget and development of options and scenarios related to budget constraints through close collaboration with functional lines and Finance.
- Responsible for ensuring timely, accurate and comprehensive project information available to wider organization
- Accountable for presenting and justifying project plans, scenarios, timelines, issues and recommendations to senior committees
- Accountable for secretariat of project team and compliance with governance requirements
- Responsible for ensuring consistent project management standards to enable effective portfolio management.
- Ensure timely notification of key issues and outcomes to Portfolio Management and Alliance Management to ensure timely and accurate portfolio information.
- Participate in evaluation of in-license opportunities and accountable for development of integrated plan.
- Contribute to design, development, improvement or redesign of R&D processes

Job Type:
Permanent

Location:
Ohio-Columbus/Zanesville

Salary:
[n/a]

Date available:
now

Specialist Industry:

Company:
GlaxoSmithKline

Company Description:
We have a challenging and inspiring mission: to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. This mission gives us the purpose to develop innovative medicines and products that help millions of people around the world. We are one of the few pharmaceutical companies researching both medicines and vaccines for the World Health Organization’s three priority diseases – HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and are very proud to have developed some of the leading global medicines in these fields. Headquartered in the UK and with operations based in the US, we are one of the industry leaders, with an estimated seven per cent of the world's pharmaceutical market. But being a leader brings responsibility. This means that we care about the impact that we have on the people and places touched by our mission to improve health around the world. It also means that we must help developing countries where debilitating disease affects millions of people and access to life-changing medicines and vaccines is a problem. To meet this challenge, we are committed to providing discounted medicines where they are needed the most. As a company with a firm foundation in science, we have a flair for research and a track record of turning that research into powerful, marketable drugs. Every hour we spend more than £300,000 (US$562,000) to find new medicines. We produce medicines that treat major disease areas such as asthma, virus control, infections, mental health, diabetes and digestive conditions. In addition, we are a leader in the important area of vaccines and are developing new treatments for cancer.

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