Senior Manager – Accelerando Program Lead

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.
• Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies.
• Maintain study governance documentation, After Action Review and lessons learned.
• Support governance reviews, investment decisions, and portfolio prioritization activities.
• Partner with project and compound development leadership as a trusted advisor to accelerate delivery of high-priority development programs and support strategic decision making.
• Facilitate alignment among project leaders, therapeutic area leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to address barriers, drive accountability, and enable successful program execution.
• Conduct critical path analyses and objective threat-and-opportunity assessments to identify acceleration opportunities, remove obstacles, reduce execution risk, and improve development predictability.
• Develop and evaluate strategic scenarios and business cases supporting risk mitigation investments, acceleration opportunities, and key development decisions.
• Drive implementation and adoption of project management best practices, innovative methodologies, and enabling technologies that improve development effectiveness and efficiency.
• Identify process, organizational, and cross-functional execution gaps and partner with stakeholders and line management to implement sustainable improvements that enhance program delivery.
• Support organizational readiness and change-management activities required to execute development strategies effectively across global teams.
• Establish, monitor, and communicate program performance metrics, benchmarking insights, lessons learned, and continuous improvement opportunities to project leadership and governance bodies.
• Build and leverage internal and external networks to identify emerging industry practices, benchmark performance, and promote knowledge sharing across development teams and strategic partners.
• Monitor advancements in project management, leadership practices, digital technologies, and development strategies, integrating relevant innovations to strengthen Accelerando capabilities and accelerate delivery.
• Champion the Accelerando approach and contribute to the evolution of program acceleration capabilities across the development organization.

• 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.
• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• 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.

Demonstrates expertise in managing integrated study schedules and clinical development programs while leveraging project management methodologies and tools. Capable of driving strategic decision-making and fostering collaboration across global teams to enhance program delivery and execution.