R&D Operations Manager

Title: R&D Operations Manager

Location: Remote - US standard working hours

Duration: through 2026

• Budget Management:
  Planning/Forecasting, Managing/Monitoring Actuals vs Budget, Execution/Guiding Stakeholders to the correct process
• Managing Accounting/Finance Deadlines:
  Quarter Close, Latest Estimated (LE) Budget Submissions;
  Annual Planning Cycle;
  Budget Variance Explanation;
  Quarter Accruals;
  Reclassing Expense; PO/Contract Management - monitoring or closures, Long Range Planning, Year End Close
• Communication with Stakeholders:
  At the individual budget owner level, at a team level, at a Leadership level (executive presence)
• Data Analytics:
  Maintaining Anaplan, Building Dashboards, Maintaining Dashboards, Using Power BI or Tableau or other tools to analyze data
• Monitoring Budget/Actuals:
  Tracking POs/Contracts;
  Tracking or Investigating Invoices;
  Budget Variance Analysis
• Supplier Engagement:
  Communication with suppliers to resolve financial discrepancies or operational issues and maintain a relationship

Master’s degree and 3 years of biotech/pharma-related business operations/financial analytics experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of biotech/pharma-related business operations/financial analytics experience

• Experience with financial reporting and forecasting
• General familiarity with the drug development process and various business units within an R&D function
• Demonstrated proficiency with data visualization tools (Tableau) and collaboration tools (Smartsheet, MS Teams)
• Fluent with MS Office suite and advanced capabilities in Excel
• Experience with enterprise tools SAP, Ariba, Anaplan
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to thrive in a complex and matrixed environment, to collaborate and coordinate with individuals at various levels, to influence others effectively and handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously
• Excellent communicator able to develop and deliver communications that facilitate organizational change in an efficient, effective, and expedient manner
• Quick learner who is proactive and takes initiative

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