Associate Director, Global Project Management

Kyowa Kirin is a fast-growing global specialty pharmaceutical company that applies state-of-the-art biotechnologies to discover and deliver novel medicines in four disease areas: bone and mineral; intractable hematologic; hematology oncology; and rare disease.  A Japan-based company, our goal is to translate science into smiles by delivering therapies where no adequate treatments currently exist, working from drug discovery to product development and commercialization. In North America, we are headquartered in Princeton, NJ, with offices in California, North Carolina, and Mississauga, Ontario.

Summary:

The Associate Director, Global Project Management, will serve as a project manager and provide professional services to global development projects and One Kyowa Kirin. This role will manage clinical stage integrated drug development projects and ensure projects are delivered on time, budget, and quality using proven project management decision support tools and strong leadership skills. The Associate Director, Global Project Management will provide cross-organizational support to accomplish annual business plan goals.

Essential Functions:

•    Serves as a critical integrator on the development project team and applies the proven PM tools & techniques that ensure success coupled with the leadership skills to rapidly build and motivate productive teams.
•    Budget Management: creation of accurate integrated budget estimates, monitoring of project budget throughout course of project and proposing revisions to project budget as needed (change control process) in line with project plans.
•    Schedule Management: creation of an integrated project schedule in collaboration with project team members, that represents the full scope of the project with critical path. Monitoring project progress and deliverables compared to the governance approved project plan, and proposing revisions to the project schedule, as needed.
•    Resource Management: creation of FTE estimates in collaboration with project team members, monitoring of FTE usage throughout course of project and proposing revisions to resource plan as needed.
•    Risk Management: identify, monitor, and report on the risk factors influencing clinical, CMC, non- clinical, and regulatory development plans. Support team members to identify risk mitigation plans and ensure cross-functional risk management and reporting.
•    Communication Management: Facilitates project level communication across functions and regions and manages core team documents. Ensures transparency of project progress across the organization. Ensures optimal team performance by sharing cross- program best practices and lessons learned.
•    PM Systems: Utilizes existing PM systems and tools to create and manage timelines, WBS and collaborate across the teams virtually.
•    Understands organizational requirements to effectively manage and progress projects, including governance meetings and approval processes, and responsibilities of other functions/divisions. Ensures project teams follow the global development framework and governance process.
•    Contributes to Global Project Management function objectives, tasks and goals.
•    Contribute to and lead change management efforts throughout the organization.
•    Able to influence the team to drive results without authority and work in a global environment.
•    Collaborates with other project management functions in One Kyowa Kirin to progress business objectives, share and standardize best practices.
•    Collaborates with alliance partners.
•    Identifies opportunities to provide coaching and mentoring globally.

Requirements:

Education
Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline such as Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, or a related field is required. An advanced degree (MS, MBA, or equivalent) is considered a plus. Preferred qualifications include certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and/or Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher).

Experience
Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or related life sciences industry, with demonstrated progression in roles of increasing responsibility. Requires at least five (5) years of hands-on project management experience in drug development, ideally spanning early to late-stage development and cross-functional global teams.

Technical Skills
Skilled in MS Office Suite. Experience using PM technology to build/ manage timelines, budgets, risks, lessons learned and status reports. Proficient in use of technology required to hold in person & virtual meetings. Preferred: Planisware

Project Management Specific Knowledge & Skills: 

Deep knowledge/skills of theoretical & practical aspects of PM across all phases of a project. Independently manages multi-phase projects and delivers core PM documents i.e. timelines, budgets, status reports, risk logs, communication plans and lessons learned reports etc

Working Conditions:

Requires up to 10% of domestic and international travel

The anticipated salary for this position will be $170,000 to $ 205,000.  The actual salary offered for this role at commencement of employment may vary based on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, education (including applicable licenses and certifications, job-based knowledge, location, and other business and organizational needs.

The listed salary is just one component of the overall compensation package. At Kyowa Kirin North America we provide a comprehensive range of benefits including:

• 401K with company match
• Discretionary Profit Share
• Annual Bonus Program (Sales Bonus for Sales Jobs)
• Generous PTO and Holiday Schedule which includes Summer and Winter Shut-Downs, Sick Days and, Volunteer Days
• Healthcare Benefits (Medical, Dental, Prescription Drugs and Vision)
• HSA & FSA Programs
• Well-Being and Work/Life Programs
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Concierge Services
• Long Term Incentive Program (subject to job level and performance)
• Pet Insurance
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Awards

The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.

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It is the policy of Kyowa Kirin North America, Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, religion, creed, color, pregnancy, sex, age, national origin, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or affection preference or citizenship status or any other category protected by law.

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