Program Management Leader Oncology Drug Development

Company: AgHires
Location: Hanover
Posted on: April 11, 2021

Job Description:

The primary responsibilities of this role, Program Management Leader, Oncology Drug Development are to:

• Be responsible for elaboration of program strategy, along with Global Development Leaders (GDL) and other Global Program Team (GPT) Core Team members, serving as a highly-experienced strategic and tactical "thought partner" to the GDL and Core Team;
• Lead key meetings, workstreams, and/or sub teams to meet strategic and tactical goals of the program and acts as deputy for the GDL, as necessary;
• Participate in key external meetings in support of the project, unless otherwise agreed with GDL;
• Be responsible for effective and efficient working of the GPT;
  • Drive Core GPT and GPT meeting content, facilitate decision making and communicating action;
  • Parter with GDL to adapt Core GPT involvement as needed, depending on critical topics and issues being addressed;
  • Serve as key contact for program-level technical and strategic information and communications, within the team and outside the team;
  • Ensure sufficient and timely flow of information and communication within the GPTs on global level;
  • Build relationships in- and outside of Global Program Teams to enhance effective communication;
  • Seek for process and communication improvement and obtain actively feedback from GPT members and key stakeholders;
  • Be accountable for establishing integrated, cross-functional, multiyear program plans which deliver against the target product profile, implements and tracks plans against agreed timelines and budget;
    • Establish, track and adjust optimized multi-year development plan for a highly complex complete program comprising of various projects from Proof of Concept (PoC) to launch;
    • Elaborate timeline and/or budget-optimized development scenarios and align activities in close interaction with global development functions accordingly;
    • Define and plan development milestones including, but not limited to get decisions and Go/No Go decision points;
    • Drive timely development of GPT goals annually, manage goals at the team level, and communicate changes within the portfolio construct (i.e. ODC Program Goals and PROMIS);
    • Partner with key functions and senior management to plan for, and drive, event-driven workstreams (e.g. data readout communications, submission planning, new project proposals);
    • Establish and track program budget, under the accountability of the GDL, be responsible for the quality of the forecasting and management of the external budget in order to achieve budget targets and be responsible for presenting budget at Latest Estimate (LE) meetings;
    • Alert GDL/Program Team, relevant functional controllers and management of budget change and propose corrective actions;
    • Ensure accurate, up-to-date development inputs (timelines, costs, risk) for portfolio-level processes such as Holistic Portfolio Review, FC and LE;
    • Drive and steer the implementation of the program strategy by ensuring resource and budget availability in close alignment with the Research and Development (R&D) functions;
    • Identify and anticipate issues, e.g. related to budget, project milestones and lead mitigation and resolution efforts as required for defined sub-program issues;
    • Be responsible for preparing, updating and adjusting the holistic program risk/opportunity profile and mitigation plans;
    • Conduct or contribute to periodic and systematic program reviews (e.g. Program Strategy meetings, Program Risk Management meetings, Lessons Learned or Cross-Program budget reviews) in order to improve the efficiency of drug development as well as to strive for earlier identification of critical success factors and to facilitate portfolio analysis, risk-management and decision-making;
    • Document program progress and status, ensure consistency, correctness and completeness of information of the various programs / projects within a program in the different reporting systems, including PROMIS, which can be relied upon as the source of valid project information for internal and external communications and planning purposes;
    • Where applicable, manage routine communications with (co)- development partners for licensed-in products;
    • Implement development strategy and manage all aspects of various global development programs or a highly complex complete program comprised of various projects, execute on strategic directives set by the GDL/Core Team, be able to influence outside direct reporting lines and work independently to drive goals, lead workstreams/sub teams, and represent the GPT as needed or as delegated by the GDL, be accountable to the GPT and to the organization for managing the program at the portfolio level with respect to milestones, risks, and budget. Sign Up for Job Alerts & AgHires Email Newsletter By clicking this button, you consent to receive emails about new jobs that relate to your search criteria. Remember: you can cancel these email alerts at any time.

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