Pharmaceutical / Biotech 

Senior Global Project Manager

San Francisco California

Pharmaceutical / Biotech 

Exp 7-10 yrs

Deg Bach

Bonus

Travel Occasional 

Job Description

This position reports directly into a Group Leader/Associate Director in the PPM Global Project Management group. 

As a key member on project teams the Senior Global Project Manager (Sr GPM) is expected to be knowledgeable about the overall program in order to be strategic in planning, team management, and process management. Sr GPMs achieve this by delivering high quality project management support and other high value services to enable team and project success.

The Sr Global Project Manager is accountable for:

• Applying project management expertise, methodologies, & department standards

• Communicating effectively with team members, senior leaders, and the broader organization

• Leveraging well developed interpersonal skills to build & maintain positive working relationships with customers and key stakeholders

• Contributing to functional excellence and business improvement initiatives 

Planning

• Using project knowledge to be strategic in planning short-, mid-, long-term project plans and identifying interdependencies 

• Developing, maintaining, tracking, and managing a high-quality, integrated project plan to enable accurate reporting and decision making 

• Managing the critical path of the project and key project risks 

Team Management

• Using strong project and organizational knowledge, leadership and active facilitation to enable effective team meetings and high performance teams

Process Management 

• Managing team-level and corporate processes effectively, using strong project and process knowledge, to drive team deliverables

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Does this describe you?

Qualifications:

10 years of pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience and a minimum of 3 years of Project Management experience supporting cross-functional drug development teams (clinical, clinical operations, regulatory, CMC, device, diagnostics, or Phase I-IV) is required. Pharma/biotech drug development experience is preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically when planning, managing teams, and managing processes 

• Strong project management to enable precise execution

• Skillful use of interpersonal skills and influence to accomplish work without formal authority and to ensure optimal team performance 

• Excellent communication and customer service skills, which enable successful collaboration with executive level stakeholders internally and externally 

• Strong experience facilitating project team meetings, cross-functional communication and decision making, and ensuring alignment with internal and external stakeholders

• Sound judgment, problem solving, leadership, and collaboration in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions to problems.

• Proven leadership skills, executive presence, maturity, emotional intelligence

• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams

• Ability to work in a highly matrixed organization with non-co located teams

• Ability to travel internationally

Education: 

Bachelor’s Degree required. Scientific degree preferred. Advanced degree (Science, MBA, PM) preferred

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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