Project Manager

Job Description:

Description: The Strategic Project Manager role provides business planning for US Medical Affairs teams. This role interfaces with all areas of US-Medical Affairs (US-MA) as well as parts of the Commercial organization. An in-depth understanding of AZ business processes, and project management is required to perform this role.

Major Responsibilities:

· Collaborate with both the Therapeutic Area Leadership Team (TA-LT) and Core Medical Teams (CMT) to develop the US-MA Medical and Operation Plans.

· Drive the successful execution of the US-MA Medical and Operational Plans

· Facilitate timely and effective decision making

· Anticipate, identify and resolve business risks/issues

· Develop impactful project communication plans

· Develop effective frameworks, presentations, and communications (written and oral)

· Define and monitor key performance indicators/metrics to measure initiative successes

· Facilitate and monitor the budget planning process within the therapeutic area.

· Run TA-LT and CMT meetings, provide strategic input into meeting agendas, and manage action items from those meetings

· Serve as a liaison between US-MA CMT and their Commercial counterparts (i.e. Brand Planning Leaders and Business Alignment Managers)

· Lead and manage strategic US-MA projects to ensure high-impact, timely, and on-budget delivery

· Provide direction and leadership to cross-functional project resources (both internal and external).

· Create process designs to streamline and simplify business processes.

· Enable best practice sharing and consistent use of commonly defined methods, processes, tools, and templates

Preferred Background:

· Minimum of 3 years of project management experience

· Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs experience

· Brand medical planning experience

· Oncology therapeutic area project management experience

· Atlas program experience for budgeting

· Demonstrated ability to lead and produce results in a matrix environment: "Lead without Authority"

· The Senior Project / Programme Manager leads a set of interrelated projects and / or Programme from initiation to close, to deliver effective solutions that meet approved customer and business needs.

· The role is accountable for determining and delivering solutions to approved budget and schedule commitments whilst meeting required quality and compliance standards.

· Focus areas include stakeholder management (varies by organization), risk management and delivery of business benefit.

· This role is also required to follow established project management standards and lead / contribute to continued development of the project / programme management capability.

Minimum Requirements:

· 5-7 years pharmaceutical industry experience

· Exceptional interpersonal, communication, leadership, and facilitation skills

· Demonstrated proficiency in all Microsoft applications

· Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline

Preferred Background:

· Minimum of 3 years of project management experience

Sneha Shrivastava

Sr Technical Recruiter

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