Director, Program Management, Late-Stage Development

Location of Role

Gaithersburg, MD

Program Management

The primary purpose of this role is to serve as an expert and principal advisor leading and driving cross-functional, late-stage clinical-stage program teams in the development of the Immunocore portfolio by effectively contributing to the development of and translating program strategies into cross-functional plans and ensuring delivery against those plans, maintaining strong internal and external strategic awareness.

The role involves addressing significant and unique complex issues across multiple business areas, devising solutions based on limited information and exercising judgment. The implementation of these solutions requires a long‑term perspective, impacting Immunocore’s strategic goals and objectives across functional areas.

The individual will contribute to the development of strategies across multiple areas, providing input into functionally strategic decisions that may influence the overall company strategy. Erroneous decisions could critically impact the functional area and the company’s overall success.

The role also involves regularly interacting with and influencing key stakeholders across the business, to drive business results and act as an influential and strategic leader within the organization.

• Partners with Program Lead to drive the cross‑functional alignment and delivery of assigned programs.
• Provides program management leadership by providing active input into the project strategy & vision, ensuring alignment of the project strategy with operational delivery.
• Leads teams in the creation of comprehensive development and launch plans, including identifying alternatives and scenario planning in corporation with other functional areas.
• Leads teams to develop and manage marketing authorization submissions to health authorities and overall cross‑functional launch/new product introduction to the Commercial organization.
• Partners with all functional areas (e.g. pre‑clinical, manufacturing, regulatory, clinical, safety, data management) to refine and build integrated program strategy and timelines, identify the critical path and keep the programs on track.
• Ensures appropriate linkages between project strategy and key internal processes (therapy area strategies, prioritization, resource management, corporate scorecard, etc.).
• Works with the program team to establish short and long‑term goals and proactively identifies issues and/or risks; facilitates risk mitigation strategies where needed.
• Coaches project teams towards successful issue resolution and decision making and focuses the team on the right activities at the right time; able to handle most challenging project situations.
• Monitors deliverables and communicates regular updates of program status to stakeholders via dashboards, program reporting and other cross‑portfolio project management tools.
• Completes day‑to‑day program management activities, such as facilitating cross‑functional team meetings, leading discussions to drive decision‑making, preparing agendas and meeting minutes, and defining and resolving action items.
• Partners with the Program Lead and project team members to develop impactful presentations which summarize complex topics into critical points to facilitate strategic planning and decision‑making and prepares programs status updates and governance presentations to the governance committees.
• Ensures that all key stakeholders are knowledgeable of program milestones, plans, program status and decisions through regular reporting and communication.
• Ensures the team and stakeholders have the right information for decisions and leads the team through problem solving, decision discussions and contingency planning, particularly with respect to complex and unique issues.
• Upholds excellent program management best practices and principles while serving as a visible leader to strengthen the program management department and create efficiencies where possible.
• Provides guidance regarding standards/templates to Program Lead, the project team and senior management/governance bodies that allows efficient (timely and informed) decision making.
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