Associate Director/Director – Project Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the project manager for one or more sub-teams within development programs or key corporate initiatives.

• Propel execution towards objectives and proactively address issues that may impact delivery.

• Create and uphold integrated, cross-functional project plans that include milestones, dependencies, assumptions, and critical paths.

• Organize readiness for Phase 3 execution, data presentations, NDA preparation, regulatory interactions, and launch strategies.

• Encourage collaboration among internal teams as well as external partners.

• Lead governance meetings, steering committees, and leadership reviews.

• Keep a record of actions, decisions, and risks.

• Generate updates, dashboards, risk evaluations, and decision materials for senior management.

• Elevate critical issues to enable informed decision-making.

• Identify, evaluate, and track risks and opportunities.

• Suggest mitigation strategies and assist in scenario planning and the assessment of strategic alternatives.

• Collaborate with functional leaders to address resource needs, constraints, and trade-offs.

• Implement and continuously enhance project management standards, tools, governance, planning, and reporting processes, including lessons learned.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8-12+ years of relevant experience.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Medicine, Business, or a related field.

• Strong understanding of clinical development processes from Phase 1 to Phase 3.

• Familiarity with major regulatory submissions, including IND, NDA, MAA, and BLA.

• Proficient in integrated planning, critical-path analysis, scenario planning, risk management, governance, budgeting, and lifecycle management.

• Proven ability to lead complex, global, cross-functional teams.

• Capacity to influence without formal authority in a matrixed environment.

• Skillful in conflict resolution and managing senior stakeholders.

• Strong problem-solving abilities and risk management skills.

• Demonstrated judgement, accountability, and focus on delivery while balancing speed, cost, quality, and compliance.

• Exceptional executive communication, facilitation, influencing, and decision-support abilities.

• Able to operate effectively at both strategic and operational levels within a dynamic matrix organization.

• PMP or a comparable qualification is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Bonus.

• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity as an Equal Opportunity Employer.