Associate Director, Project Management

The Associate Director, Project Management is responsible for leading the planning, development, and timely execution of various internal and external projects within Halozyme to support corporate priorities and objectives. The Associate Director will support projects across all functional areas, ensuring appropriate prioritization of resources and timely execution of deliverables. The Associate Director leads and coordinates decision‑making, collaboration and problem‑solving with people at all levels of the organization to accomplish shared program goals.

The Associate Director also supports functional leaders with prioritization and development of high quality, integrated cross‑functional project plans and facilitates implementation.

• Apply project management best practices in the development, initiation, planning, execution, control and closing of projects
• Provide operational support to project management function to build best practices and standards to proactively manage risk, day‑to‑day execution, reporting and communications to various internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and execute integrated project plans, identify rate limiting factors and key dependencies
• Maintain program specific timelines and deliverables, including critical program, financial and communication milestones, in Smartsheet and/or other project management applications
• Develop tracking dashboards and alerts to identify any critical issues that can delay or impact program; work with program leads to develop mitigation plans
• Lead and coordinate decision‑making, collaboration and problem‑solving with people at all levels of the organization to accomplish shared program goals
• Act as cross‑functional liaison to ensure project plans remain aligned with current business or alliance strategies
• Prioritize, organize and facilitate team agendas, meetings and presentations; generate and distribute meeting minutes and other communications
• Manage project authorizations, scope of work, and key assumptions underpinning the project
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of Halozyme's technologies.
• Work with finance to manage project budgeting process and monitor project spend
• Support annual reporting and audit management as needed; provide input to the portfolio prioritization process and participate in other key strategic business decisions, as necessary and develop partner business plans or other activities to support the advancement of the partnership if necessary
• Assemble and develop effective teams that can conduct complex tasks and assures resources are aligned to target goals
• Motivates, mobilizes, and leads self, team, functional area and/or department to deliver on individual and team goals and commitments.
• Establishes operational objectives / assignments and delegates assignments/projects with internal and external partners
• Keeps internal and external stakeholders informed of progress through ongoing review
• Management of multiple projects and timelines concurrently
• Model and train team members on efficiency tools and best practices
• Other duties as assigned

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in business with at least 12 years of pharmaceutical drug development experience, or Master’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience
• Proven experience in at least two of the following areas: clinical development, drug development, product commercialization, or project management in the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry
• Hands‑on experience with and knowledge of such principles as GMP, FDA guidelines
• Demonstrated successful experience influencing teams, both internal and cross‑company, in a matrix management environment
• Working knowledge and experience with project planning software, such as MS Project or Smartsheet
• Strong experience in problem solving skills, analytical thinking, and visionary skills
• Master’s or PhD is preferred
• Proven experience in Project Management and knowledge of best practices; PMP certification preferred
• Experience in project or alliance management desirable, or managing high level cross functional teams or other external relationships
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