Director, Project Management

Why Patients Need You

Pfizer Global Product Development supports clinical and late stage development of medicines to deliver breakthroughs that change patients' lives.

What You Will Achieve

You will be part of Pfizer's Portfolio & Project Management Team. Your project management skills will be leveraged to ensure achievement of research, development, medical, and commercial objectives. You will serve as the medicine team operational leader, ensuring all cross functional deliverables are achieved on schedule and within budget and quality targets.
It is your problem solving ability and hard work that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

Medicine Program Development, Strategy, and Planning

• Working with Medicine Team leadership, leads development of integrated program plans and ensures alignment between strategy and functional contributions.
• Drives stage gate decision planning and participates in the strategic planning process for the project.
• In partnership with the Medicine Team Leader, Finance Lead, and Partner Line representatives, is accountable for developing and maintaining an integrated budget and updated forecasts.
• Designs, recommends, and implements new processes, approaches, or tools to manage the program or team.

Project Planning & Execution

• Drives creation/maintenance of integrated development plans.
• Leads development of the program critical path, decision criteria, and milestones/stage gates.
• Ensures all lines understand program strategy, key milestones and interdependencies.
• Leads oversight of the program schedule in collaboration with the Project Planner and proactively identifies and manages opportunities to optimize delivery of the plan.
• Facilitates scenario planning including the development and assessment of options.
• Negotiates allocation of functional partner line resources to support endorsed strategy.
• Maintains project budget, working with the team to optimize resource utilization and maximize return on investment. Reviews or approves operational activities and costs.

Risk Analysis and Management

• Leads the team in the development and execution of integrated risk management plans
• Partners with team and stakeholders to identify options to de-risk project plans and capitalize on opportunities.
• Provide assessment of timing of investment triggers & Go/NoGo decision points.

Information and Communication Management

• Responsible for the development and management of the communication plan for the program.
• Ensures effective, accurate, and timely communication of program information to the medicine team and stakeholders.
• Participates in representing the medicine team in governance presentations, Operating Plan reviews, stakeholder discussions, and other venues.

Team Effectiveness

• Utilizes negotiation, facilitation, meeting management, and conflict resolution skills to enhance cross-functional team performance.
• Leads team chartering process & periodic assessment of team health.
• Identifies team member performance issues & partners with team leadership to recommend & develop appropriate actions.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Bachelor's degree in one of the disciplines related to drug development or business.
• Mastery of project management skills and drug development.
• 10 or more years of relevant experience within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Strong track record of performance on cross-functional teams and achievement of results through project management.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, interpersonal, communication, and meeting facilitation skills.
• Experience with stakeholder management, governance management, and communication to senior level stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize project management tools and techniques.
• Demonstrates emotional intelligence with a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, building an Ordinary project team into an Extraordinary team, capable of achieving breakthrough results; the ability to seamless transition between high level leadership to detailed focus on issues resolution, as needed.
• Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact

Nice-to-Have

• Advanced degree (PhD, PharmD, MBA).
• Professional PM certification (Project Management Professional [PMP] or equivalent).
• Hands-on experience using Microsoft Project or equivalent project planning system.
• Familiarity with clinical trial operations.
• Experience working in the Rare Disease therapy area

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