Director, Strategic Projects Lead

Job Description

Major accountabilities:

• Identify, propose, and deliver strategic and operational imperatives for Development as x-functional strategic projects using data as the performance baseline.
• Accountable for the faultless, independent delivery of large-scale strategic projects that employ project management best practices to enhance certainty of success (i.e., project plans – scope, time, cost/resources, communication plans, impact measures/ metrics).
• Structure ambiguous problems and take action to solve them, with clear linkage to Development objectives, strategy and priorities.
• Synthesize clear takeaways from complex information into outcomes and recommendations using both qualitative and quantitative methods (i.e., external benchmarks, internal metrics, process performance analyses etc.).
• Lead cross-functional teams, influencing without authority, to develop the best solution and move stakeholders and the organization to act
• Establish trust-based relationships with leaders and stakeholders to better serve their organizations.
• Deploy excellent verbal and written communication skills to transmit information effectively to all audiences, including senior leaders, in a structured manner.
• Drive project teams and organizations to comprehensively improve operating model design, process simplification, data & technology enablement, and financial success, whilst ensuring quality standards and regulatory compliance.
• Role model exceptional company values and behaviours, embracing high-challenge conversations, to drive change (ethics, change agent, collaboration, humility).
• Maintain awareness of process improvement methodologies and best practices (e.g., IQP, lean six sigma, Scrum, Agile, etc. )

Minimum Requirements

• Ideally 3rd level degree educated in a relevant discipline in Life Sciences or Life Science Engineering. Further qualifications such as MBA would be an advantage.
• Minimum experience of 10-12 years in Research & Development strategic consulting and/or Line Function in Development
• Corporate/development experience in complex project management
• Must have experience in Drug Discovery and Drug Development In-depth experience of the drug discovery lifecycle and R&D functions
• Proven trach-record managing complex, cross-functional Projects with senior stakeholder engagement

Skills Desired

Drug Development, Global Project Management, Program Management, Team Management