Associate Director / Director of Project Management
San Diego, CA
Program Management and Alliances – Project Management /
Full Time /
On-site
With extensive experience in developing biologics and bioconjugates, we offer a seamless service delivered by fully integrated teams, from early discovery to commercial manufacturing.
Forward-thinking and committed, we find the best solution and use the right technologies to design, develop and manufacture your products to ensure we get vital medicines to patients quickly and safely.
We are dedicated to quality excellence. We are driven to get better treatments to market, efficiently and responsibly by reducing timelines and delivering the highest quality products and services.
We are Abzena. More than a CDMO, we are a responsible and dedicated partner that takes care of your products from concept to patient.
The Associate Director, Program Management is a technically trained project manager with direct responsibility for guiding integrated development and manufacturing programs through the Abzena San Diego Site processes, and mentoring and training of Technical Program and Project Managers. The Associate Director, Program Management is an excellent communicator that manages client relationships by acting as a liaison between customers, internal business partners and functional teams. This role ensures the delivery of contract commitments via thorough planning and active management of each stage of the customer project lifecycle from proposal to closeout.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership:
- Manages strategic client relationships
- Provides guidance and reinforces Project Management best practices to teams during all project phases through one-on-one interactions and group settings.
- Provides oversight of TPM staff and guidance on Abzena technical and project management processes.
- Develop and leverage a network across all site functions to ensure established processes are followed.
- Manages day-to-day Program Management team operations.
- Program Management:
- Ensures all project documents align with the vision, strategy, and goals of the customer program and accurately follow contract milestones and deliverables.
- Develops and maintains detailed project plans for all activities from kickoff to contract close-out.
- Clearly defines the critical path and generates simple, easily interpreted decision criteria for each customer program based on project team recommendations.
- Collaborates with workstream sponsors, leads, and team members to identify problems, trends, and impacts on project success along with proposed corrective actions.
- Provides project reports to stakeholders regularly, articulating project status and escalating issues that require additional support.
- Collaborates with the business and technical teams to ensure prospective customer proposals are complete, accurate and communicated in a timely fashion.
- Ensures accurate and timely entry and update of all program data to site management and tracking tools.
- Maximizes project value through collaboration with BD business partners on new proposals and by raising change orders at appropriate times during project execution.
- Gathers and reports performance metrics and present findings to internal stakeholders.
- Stakeholder Engagement:
- Serves as a single over-arching point of contact for all internal and external project stakeholders.
- Plans and facilitates interactions between customers and internal project teams.
- Plans and manages customer visits to ensure positive customer experience.
- Monitors customer audit actions through completion.
- Develop and leverage a network across all site functions to ensure established processes are followed.
- Use judgement and discretion to maintain consensus and support among independent stakeholders in a rapidly changing environment.
Qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD in life science related discipline.
- PMP certification preferred.
- Minimum of five (5) years of project management experience in a relevant field leading complex programs.
- Minimum of five (5) years experience managing client or customer relationships.
- Minimum of two (2) years experience supervision of other employees.
- Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, organizational, project management, and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of and expertise in a range of project management methodologies and tools.
- Demonstrated understanding and strong knowledge of the overall drug development process.
- Previous direct experience working in cGMP environments including an understanding of related regulatory compliance requirements preferred.
- Must be able to work and communicate efficiently with employees on all levels in one-on-one and group settings.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams and deliver results with minimal supervision.
- Organized, flexible and easily adapts to changing conditions.
- Excellent customer service skills, with a strong bias toward action and owning/resolving issues.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite, MS Project, Smartsheet and MS Visio.
- Ability to rapidly learn new software and systems.
$170,000 - $210,000 a year
FLSA: Exempt
Abzena is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
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