Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
The Sr. Program Manager, Biotech Solutions provides strategic leadership for high-visibility biotech sector initiatives, with primary responsibility for managing cross-functional strategic programs, collaboration across groups and divisions, and senior stakeholder alignment. This role serves as a trusted partner to senior leaders, owning the planning and execution of complex initiatives that advance sector priorities, strengthen customer relationships, and deliver measurable business impact across the biotech organization.
A day in the Life:
- Owns outcomes of key cross-functional strategic initiatives
- Creates and owns the overall program roadmap to deploy and monitor progress against short-term and long-term strategic goals of the assigned initiatives
- Applies sophisticated project management techniques, monitors project progress, and ensure on schedule, mitigates risk, and proactively addresses issues to ensure project success.
- Owns executive-ready deliverable outputs from strategic initiatives
- Drives and sustains strategic relationships and alignment across the sector.
- Provides strategic oversight for technical and process integration across cross-functional initiatives.
- Develops varied materials, presentations, and/or tools to support department's remit and strategies.
- Leads initiatives to develop, optimize and improve processes, associated systems/applications, training and communications.
- Collaborates to strategically solve problems and process improve with key sector level team members.
Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years).
- Hands on experience and knowledge of clinical trial operations
- Experience influencing cross-functional groups and senior leaders
- Demonstrated experience managing complex initiatives
- In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Understanding of clinical research and the drug development process
- Executive stakeholder management and influence without authority.
- Strong understanding of process improvement fundamentals.
- Solid investigative and analytical skills.
- Decision-making under ambiguity
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Proven understanding of clinical management technology and systems, and strong computer skills.
- Executive communications and synthesis of insights.
- Effective judgment, decision making, critical issue, and risk management skills.
- Effective oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing.
- Strong social skills and problem-solving ability.
- Capable of directing and promoting collaboration in a multi-disciplinary and/or multi-cultural team setting.
- Balances strategic oversight with appropriate attention to detail in a fast-paced environment
- Strong leadership and organizational skills.
- Experience managing projects and timelines
- Operates with a high degree of autonomy in a dynamic, ambiguous environment