The Opportunity:

This is an exciting, high-profile, and highly visible Project Management opportunity to advance a first-in-Class RAS(ON) inhibitor through clinical development, regulatory registration, and launch preparation aiming for successful product launch in Japan.  The ideal candidate is a highly proficient and self-motivated project manager with a solid understanding of cross functional activities required from the late-stage clinical development to product launch. The Director, Project Management partners with Function Leaders in Japan to translate project strategy into an efficient execution plan. They understand the breadth of cross-functional activities and foster productive collaborations to ensure successful execution.

Overall, the Director, Project Management drives results through productive collaborations in an organization that is rapidly developing its capabilities and infrastructure. They care not only about the outcomes but also how those outcomes are achieved. The successful candidate will draw on their experience to:

• Partner with the Functional Leaders in Japan in defining project strategy, stakeholder management, and overall project leadership topics.

• Establish and maintain functionally integrated project plan and project assumptions (accounting for goals, key objectives, deliverables, and risks) to enable accurate project, financial and portfolio analyses for project planning processes.

• Ensure identification and management of project risks; working with subject matter experts to construct appropriate mitigation plans.

• Lead monitoring and tracking of project progress and evaluate alternative project scenarios (comprising costs, timelines, risks, and project strategy) during progression of the program through stage gates and as per business need.

• Lead an efficient information flow to the global cross-functional project team, and internal advisory & governance bodies.

• Demonstrate effective meeting and information management including prioritizing the right topics for discussion, ensuring the objectives of the meeting are achieved, communicating decisions to key stakeholders and ensuring that action items are assigned and completed in a timely manner.

• Serves as the owner of project team information including the project plan, budget and program assumptions as approved by local governance and the Senior Leadership Team.

• Apply drug development and commercialization expertise to coach and mentor project team members to ensure efficient and effective project team operation.

• Identify, recommend, and implement opportunities for streamlining team and business processes.

• Participate in establishment and implementation of project management systems and best practices.

• Coach and mentor members of the Project Management team to ensure a strong bench of future leaders.

 Required Skills, Experience and Education:

• BSc. in Life Sciences and at least 8 years’ experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry with at least 5 years’ direct development project management experience managing cross-functional global development teams.

• Broad knowledge of the clinical drug development process and regulations, and launch preparation coupled with strong proficiency in project management practices, tools, and methodology.

• Expertise in developing and managing project scope, deliverables, risk & resource requirements including, schedule / timeline management, and risk management.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including clear, succinct, and timely communication and proven ability to foster important relationships with key stakeholders.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to summarize complex information into simple concepts; has the ability to effectively interact across team line functions as well as with external key stakeholders.

• Proven track record of good decision making and exercising sound judgment.

• Experience using Project Management software to manage project timelines and resources (e.g., MS Project, SmartSheet, OfficeTimeline, and OnePager Pro etc.).

• Strong computer proficiency with MS Office suite, SharePoint, and similar document archiving systems.

Preferred Skills:

• MSc. or MBA or Ph.D. in Life Sciences a plus.

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or other PM certification or equivalent is a plus.

• Experience in Oncology therapeutic area is strongly preferrable.

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