Program Manager, Product Management & Data Insights

Project Manager

The position combines project management responsibilities with in-depth, hands-on technical expertise. The Project Manager is responsible for working with a project team that may include developers, researchers, designers, data scientists as well as operational and clinical representatives.

The role entails leading and managing multiple projects concurrently, building cross-functional plans, budgeting, coordinating resources, managing issues, as well as ensuring timely delivery through the full product development life cycle, including launch and post-launch activities.

Manages product management and data insights (PMDI) and / or digital solutions and engineering (DSE) department projects.

Ensures projects are managed on time within budget, with quality and with sufficient resources.

Point of contact for other departments who wish to initiate projects ensuring there is project alignment without duplication.

Provides regular metrics and risk register to PMDI Leadership.

Essential functions of the job include :

• Providing project management for digital product and insights development throughout the lifecycle.
• Providing regular updates on project status including risks sharing with potential mitigation strategies.
• Communicating cross functionally to ensure understanding of department projects in other functions.
• May review other departments projects for overlap, impact, and consistency.
• Facilitating Sprint Planning, Release Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Product Demos and Sprint Retrospectives - full Development Life Cycle.
• Partnering with the Product Owner and / or Product Manager to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team.
• Driving risk identification and proactive risk mitigation.
• Ensuring risks and issues are proactively communicated / escalated to appropriate levels.
• Monitoring the flow of work (User Stories) and coordinating within the team to determine optimal work intake and flow in the delivery.
• Facilitating team for better creativity and trying to improve the efficiency of the development team.
• Providing input and assistance for the creation and management of project plans during an implementation and / or ongoing operational effort.
• Working with product managers and engineering teams during implementations to create a single program plan across all workstreams.

Self-motivated individuals with demonstrated ability to handle multiple high priority demands, manage expectations and achieve objectives. Able to handle large scope and high complexity within agile teams.

Education / experience required :

Bachelor's degree required with 5+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical / biotechnology industry or a Master's degree with 4+ years experience in the pharmaceutical / biotechnology industry. Project management experience preferred.

Works with independence to lead global, cross-functional matrixed teams. Understanding of clinical data collection, programming, and analysis.

Strong communication skills, ability to proactively communicate with key stakeholders, effectively manage conflicts and negotiations or understand when to escalate to solve problems, and influence outcomes without direct authority.

Strong organizational, analytical, planning, and decision-making skills.

Fluent in written and verbal English.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Experience with JIRA, Smartsheet.

Understanding of the global drug development with ability to lead or support program management processes.

Understanding of ICH and regulatory environment as it pertains to Statistics and Data Science.

In-depth knowledge of one or more data collection systems.

No significant travel expected.

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.