At AstraZeneca, we are an equal opportunity employer that puts patients first and strive to meet their unmet medical needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, a team leader, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality.

AstraZeneca currently has an opening for Associate Director/Director of Global Project Management in the GPPM organization supporting the ENHERTU team. The Associate Director/Director is responsible for managing cross-functional, drug development teams and sub-teams to achieve key strategic objectives and deliver development, regulatory, and commercial milestones.

This role will work closely with the GPT, and in partnership with Daiichi Sankyo, where you will use your skills to develop the partnership, ensuring delivery to cost, time, and quality for key objectives across the portfolio, ensuring that the teams operate in a way that represents best practice for project management within AstraZeneca. The role will require leadership across multiple-tumor types in both early-stage and metastatic settings within a novel oncology program of the highest complexity, scale, and priority to the company.

This position plays a highly-visible, critical role in successfully delivering innovative medicines through the drug development process to patients

Responsibilities

Program Strategic Alignment

• Provides program management leadership through active input into the project strategy & vision, ensuring alignment of the project strategy with operational delivery

• May lead the drug project strategy as assigned by PM Head or project leader

• Ensures appropriate linkages between project strategy and key internal processes (e.g. TA strategy, TA prioritization, corporate scorecard)

• Partner cross-functionally with the Oncology Business Unit to link commercial and medical strategies with those of R&D

• Engage with stakeholders to manage potential risks and mitigations as they emerge in the clinical, CMC, medical and commercial settings

• Interface with alliance partners and manage joint alliance forums responsible for the development and execution of broad clinical and commercial plans

Team Leadership and Delivery

• Creates a shared sense of purpose, inspires and energizes others

• Coaches project teams towards successful issue resolution and decision making and focuses the team on the right activities at the right time, and can handle the majority of challenging project situations

• Serves as a core team member and drives efficient operation of the project teams including overall plans, priorities, budget and risk management

• Manages both internal and external stakeholders, proactively communicating with senior team leaders, functions, and partners

• Represents AZ, providing leadership and ensuring strategic alignment and continuity with alliance partners

Governance and Investment Decisions

• Manages multiple cross-functional teams, towards optimized governance decisions, e.g. investment decisions, project revisions, etc, both internally, through LSPC, and within the alliance, up to and including the Joint Executive Committee

• Provides guidance to both the team and senior management / governance bodies that allows efficient (timely and informed) decision making

• Leverages broad influential network and ensures engagement at all levels prior to key decisions

Planning, Monitoring and Delivery

• Ensures that overall team results, budgets, schedules, and performance standards are realistically set, governance approved and attained, and that the project optimally fulfils all business reporting requirements both internally and within alliance.

• Maintains project plans of the highest data quality, accountable for all Project Management deliverables associated with the project team(s) covered both internally and within the alliance

Entrepreneurship

• Leads by example in learning, innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and conflict resolution; seeks opportunities to change and removes barriers within and outside the team.

• Champions company best practices and adoption of new project management practices.

• Uses business knowledge to drive cross-project learning, champion and embed better ways of working across the enterprise and alliance

Skills and Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific subject, Master’s degree or higher preferred

• At least 8+ years of relevant experience in project management within the Pharmaceutical or Biotech industry

• Experienced project manager with successful record of delivering complex/ high business impact drug development projects within agreed time, quality, and cost.

• Ability to motivate, manage and inspire high performing teams

• Experienced knowledge of project management tools and processes

• Experience ensuring high quality data in enterprise systems and accountability for high quality information on complex drug projects

• Track record of effective Senior Stakeholder management, demonstrating strong ability to influence strategically

Desirable

• Relevant therapeutic area expertise

• Advanced degree in a scientific discipline and / or MBA

• Project Management (PMP) Certification

• Alliance or collaboration experience

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global innovation driven biopharmaceutical business, and we are investing very heavily in our scientific and clinical capabilities. We discover, develop, manufacture, and market small molecules and biologics for important areas of healthcare, which include some of the world's most serious illnesses: oncology, cardiovascular, infection, autoimmune, respiratory, and inflammation.

We are active in over one hundred countries with a growing presence in emerging markets including China, Brazil, Mexico and Russia. We employ over 50,000 people and invest over $5 billion in R&D each year.

AstraZeneca is proud to have an outstanding workplace culture that encourages innovation and collaboration. Here employees are empowered to express perspectives and are made to feel valued and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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