Project Manager - Maternity Cover
Listed on 2026-08-22
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Management
Project & Program Management, Operations Management
Location: Jupiter House, High Wycombe (Hybrid)
Contract Type: 15 months, fixed term contract.
Working Hours: Monday
- Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm
Right to work: Please note that Ethypharm is unable to provide sponsorship for this role. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.
What you will doReporting to the Project Director the role shall manage the company's products line expansion through new product introduction (NPI) and launch management. Ensure the co-ordination of the overall pharmaceutical activities of product launches from project evaluation through to product launch. This includes products from all sources including, but not limited to, new product development (NPD), business development in-licensing and product distribution agreements.
Yourkey responsibilities include Process
- Co-ordinate & Lead multidisciplinary project teams:
- Define the objectives of the project and agree key milestones and document in an agreed project charter.
- Organize the necessary meetings for project kick-of and project follow-up.
- Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with stakeholders, as well as other staff members.
- Agree delegation of project tasks based on project team members' individual strengths, skill sets and experience levels.
- Project management processes:
- Ensure that the practices of project management are implemented.
- Ensure departmental adherence to all relevant SOP's.
- Contribute to the implementation and monitoring of KPIs.
- Internal interface:
- Provide rapid and effective project reporting to key stakeholders and project team members management.
- External interface:
- Represent the company in front of clients/distributors.
- To provide projects and environment intelligence (competitive intelligence, industry and market environment news and trends, therapeutic areas…).
- Support the Project Director on the pipeline entry of new projects, working with key departments on the project evaluation before entering the pipeline.
- Responsible for the budget of the assigned projects, monitoring the baseline, revised & actuals.
You'll be an organised and approachable Project Manager who is comfortable managing several projects 'll work well with people across the business, keep projects on track and deal with any issues as they arise. You'll also be able to quickly get up to speed and provide continuity throughout the maternity cover period.
Basic skills and qualifications- Educated to a degree level with Life Sciences
- Minimum of 5 years related experience in the pharmaceutical industry
- Knowledge of project mode organisation or willing to work in a transversal mode organisation
- Skills & personal qualities:
- Excellent communicator
- A real team player
- Proactive
- Leadership
- Attention to detail
- Demonstrate flexibility in adjusting to a rapidly changing and high volume of work
- Experience of working within multidiscipline teams
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Competitive salary
- Holiday - 25 days rising to 30 with length of service plus bank holidays
- Holiday Buy/Sell - an opportunity to buy or sell up to an additional 5 days' holiday
- 5% Bonus
- In addition to our competitive salaries, all our employees are entitled to join a discretionary bonus scheme (based on policy eligibility) - Bravo Benefits Platform - offering a variety of discounts across well-being and lifestyle
- Salary Sacrifice scheme for Electric vehicles with Tusker (dependent on meeting policy eligibility)
- Private Healthcare for yourself and your family (if applicable) with an additional Medicash health cash plan
- Pension Scheme
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