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Associate Director, Accelerando Program Leader

nj • Posted 3 days ago
Onsite Full Time Management & Operations

Responsibilities

  • Create, maintain, and manage integrated study schedules in Microsoft Project including key events, roadmaps, and critical-path visualizations.
  • Identify opportunities to accelerate development timelines while maintaining quality and compliance.
  • Leverage digital planning platforms, integrated timelines, predictive analytics, dashboards, and program management tools to improve predictability and execution.
  • Align clinical trial timelines with integrated clinical and compound development plans.
  • Develop budget, timeline, and FTE forecasts; create scenario analyses in Planisware to support decision‑making.
  • Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies.
  • Collect, consolidate, and report financial, timeline, and resource metrics for governance reviews and external funding partnerships.
  • Maintain study governance documentation, After Action Review and lessons learned.
  • Support governance reviews, investment decisions, and portfolio prioritization activities.

Requirements

  • Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, Business, or related discipline is required.
  • Minimum 8 years of experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, or related industries.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex clinical development programs.
  • Knowledge of project management methodologies, systems, and tools.
  • Demonstrated expertise in MS Project.
  • Proficiency with technology enabling tools including Visio, Excel, etc.
  • Experience mentoring/coaching others.
  • Experience operating in matrixed global organizations and leading without authority.
  • Demonstrated ability to be creative and flexible to change/improve working environment in broad context.
  • Preferred: Professional project management certification (i.e., PMP, CPM, etc.)
  • Hands on experience in Planisware

Hard Skills

  • Integrated Study Schedules
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Budget ForecastingTimeline Management
  • Scenario Analysis

Soft Skills

  • Mentoring
  • Creative Problem Solving
  • Flexibility to Change

Certifications & Qualifications

  • PMP
  • CPM

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