SRG: Director Portfolio & Resource Management

SRG are pleased to represent an opportunity to join a global player in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology market as they expand their global portfolio management group located in Cambridge, UK.

The business is focused on pioneering research and exploring novel mechanisms and pathways across key therapeutic areas, our client is committed to scientific innovation and medical progress, continually looking beyond standard expectations and pushing the boundaries of what is possible.

Due to continued expansion to support the business our client is seeking to appoint a Director Portfolio & Resource Management to provide cross-functional strategic and operational management and leadership to pipeline management, functional leadership & governance with a focus on strategic analysis and operational management & analytics. The tools for analysis include OPAL, industry benchmarking forums and industry research.

Key Accountabilities include:

  • As a Member of the Pipeline Management leadership team provide direction for the pipeline management group, and mentoring and leadership to group members
  • Oversee development and execution of process and procedure improvement initiatives within pipeline management and partners with other departments to gain buy-in and ensure new processes and procedures meet organizational goals
  • Assess, develop, and implement tools designed to facilitate operational excellence initiatives within pipeline management
  • Manage partnerships with Finance, GPPS Portfolio Management and R&D functional leadership as well as internal counterparts to achieve project and portfolio goals.
  • Design and implement management reporting capabilities from the OPAL program by working with cross functional Leadership teams and the iMeds/RRCs/ESPC, allowing for the optimal leveraging and use of project data for effective portfolio management across internal functions & governance.
  • Distill large amounts of information into useable and accurate data points that form the foundation of analytics regarding cycle time, success rates, benchmarking, Portfolio Reviews, LROP, resources and capacity forecasting.

The ideal candidate for this position will be senior leader from the life science / pharmaceutical industry with in-depth knowledge of project and portfolio management as a discipline with the ability to create, coordinate, and maintain an integrated product plan and to control or respond to changes in strategy and scope.

The incumbent will possess significant experience in early and late phase clinical development stages and processes within biologic/pharmaceutical development including key stage gates and decision criteria for moving programmes through the development pipeline, and the considerations relevant to post-marketed development and life cycle management.

The incumbent will also ideally hold expertise in use of enterprise-wide pharmaceutical project management software solutions, including skills in critical path analysis. In addition, a high degree of analytical expertise in assimilating data, identifying trends, and utilizing data to recommend business solutions is required.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a world-class business in a highly dynamic and fluid project management environment, where your work will directly influence the productivity of the research and development efforts of the organisation.

The recruiter has stated that all applicants for this job should be able to prove they are legally entitled to work in the UK. SRG is a trading name of Science Recruitment Group Ltd an Employment Business/Agency. SRG, winners of the Recruitment Professional Awards 2011 'Best Company to work for' and 'Best People Development Business' awards, and the only "highly commended" company in the Annual Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2011, for 'Best Small Recruitment Agency to Work For'.

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