Position Title: Director, Medical Project Management
Work Location: Mettawa, IL 60045
Assignment Duration: 6 months with option to extend
Work Arrangement: Hybrid Onsite (Tue-Thu)
Position Summary:
The Medical Affairs Project Management (PM) team focuses on driving performance through learning, technology, and the practice of innovation.
The Associate Director Project Management serves as both a primary point of contact and strategic partner for TA leadership. The scope of this role is global, supporting multiple Therapeutic areas (TAs) at a programmatic level (i.e. multiple related TAs).
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Partnership & Leadership * Acts as a thought partner to the VP on HEOR priorities and enterprise leadership commitments. * Creates priorities with clarity and focus. * Serves as a delegate in meetings when needed.
- Strategic Initiative Management * Lead end-to-end project management for HEOR's strategic initiatives (e.g., functional planning, launch readiness, qtrly ev gen reviews, etc). * Develop clear charters, milestones, success metrics, and governance for key initiatives. * Drive execution discipline with team ensuring timelines, deliverables, and interdependencies are managed proactively. * Anticipate risks and implement mitigation strategies.
- Operational Excellence * Owns the planning and orchestration of leadership forums (NELT, XLT, planning sessions, offsites). * Partners with cross functional partners to lead annual planning process * Track progress against HEOR objectives, priorities and tactical plans * Liase with commercial and medical project leads (PLs) to ensure HEOR alignment on key initiatives/events * Liase with Raj's team to monitor resources, budgets, and headcount planning
- Communications & Stakeholder Engagement * Craft internal communications (slides, leadership messages, updates for cross-functional partners). * Foster transparency by ensuring key messages cascade effectively throughout the V&E organization. * Build bridges within V&E pillars and cross functional partners (e.g., IMAP, medical affairs, commercial teams, etc) to ensure HEOR delivers impact evidence generation.
- Organizational & Talent Enablement * Support culture initiatives by shaping engagement activities, pulse surveys, and feedback loops. * Supports broader V&E initiatives with Grete * Partners with MHI Ops leadership to ensure HEOR is included in ops planning initiatives
Qualification & Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in a scientific or business-related field is required.
- Project management certification (e.g. PMP) preferred.
- Applied knowledge of project management tools and processes (e.g. management of integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk and procurement).
- Performance measurement (e.g. metrics, dashboards).
- At least 10 years of experience pharmaceutical experience with a Bachelors, 9 years with MS, 8 Years with PhD.
- Experience should include 3-4 years of project management and/or process improvement related experience. Demonstrated management experience.
- Demonstrated management experience preferred.
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