Senior Manager, Program Management

Position Summary

Responsibilities

• Drives program team(s) and is responsible for working closely with Program Leader and program team members to manage the operational aspects of the program(s), including developing overall strategy, tactical implementation plans, fully integrated program plan and timelines, and monitoring key milestones and decision points to drive delivery of program objectives
• Drives team objective setting, prioritization, and tracking ensuring adherence to plan and strategy
• Ensures cross-functional alignment and organizational support for the program plan and timelines by facilitating internal and external stakeholder management
• Implements project plan flawlessly; optimizes and tracks progress of project plans (time, resources)
• Interfaces and coordinates with relevant functional groups to ensure timely execution of program activities including anticipating and identifying program risks, mitigations and contingencies, and supporting timely action plans and issue resolution
• Drives issue identification and resolution and leads contingency planning for program team
• Ensures effective, proactive, and open communications, horizontally and vertically, in order to achieve transparency and clarity of program goals, progress, and issues, and, where necessary, engages line function management, other internal stakeholders and external experts to overcome obstacles
• Represents program to Senior Management; ensures effective communication to align program activities with corporate strategy, and ensure effective program execution
• Identifies and resolves conflicts at program team and functional team level
• Fosters a culture of ownership and single point of accountability with clear timelines, as well as ongoing evaluation, recognition and process improvement
• Is attuned to team dynamics and focuses on team needs directly and/or in partnership with other organizational leaders to ensure optimal team effectiveness
• Focuses operations to deliver results by influencing team members beyond existing benchmarks and their own expectations
• Leads ad-hoc cross-functional task forces and day-to-day operations of program team
• Ensures the development and use of key program management tools including GANTT charts, and the use of management logistics and documentation, by all team members, to enhance program delivery and information dissemination to the team and key stakeholders
• Ensures effective program team meetings, logistics and documentation
• For programs that are in alliances, drives reporting and program management with collaboration partners

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in the life sciences with at least 3-4+ years of demonstrated program management experience managing cross-functional product development teams Senior Manager: 10+ Years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree 8+ Years of relevant experience with an advanced degree
• Senior Manager: 10+ Years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree 8+ Years of relevant experience with an advanced degree
• 10+ Years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree
• 8+ Years of relevant experience with an advanced degree
• Outstanding leadership and management skills with an integrated view of scientific and product development issues, and demonstrated passion for creating new medicines
• Ability to work independently and successfully in a matrix environment, prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously, integrate cross-functional issues and balance competing priorities effectively
• Proficiency in project management applications (ex.MS Project, Visio, ThinkCell, MS Timeline) as well as MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel
• Detailed understanding of preclinical and early clinical product development for biologics, and regulatory requirements for IND and CTA filings and First-In-Human clinical trials
• Familiarity with cell and molecular biology techniques, LNP delivery
• Strong oral and written communication skills, a high degree of energy, accuracy and attention to detail, and a passion for delivering important new medicines to patients with devastating diseases

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification
• Thorough understanding of the preclinical and early clinical development of cell and gene therapy medicines
• Experience driving gene editing or cell & gene therapy, LNP & RNA programs
• Advanced planning and tracking skills, capable of managing multiple projects with respect to priorities and self-management
• Expert in Communication and Information management.
• Expert leadership skills demonstrated in program teams, Expert skills to facilitate/ optimize contributions from team members as individuals and members of a cohesive team
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for bridging between scientific and business participants, for driving a program to effective implementation and for managing effective collaborations; strong verbal communication, expert in written communications, expert team player

Competencies