Associate Director/Director Project Management

Role overview Provide strategic and hands-on project management for complex drug development programs or enterprise initiatives. You’ll connect teams across clinical, regulatory, operational, and commercial functions, keeping plans aligned as programs progress through late-stage development, submission preparation, and launch readiness.

Responsibilities - Manage one or more development program subteams or strategic initiatives, driving progress and resolving obstacles. - Build and maintain integrated plans with milestones, dependencies, assumptions, and critical paths. - Coordinate readiness for Phase 3 studies, data readouts, regulatory interactions, submission preparation, and launch planning. - Facilitate collaboration among internal functions and external partners. - Lead governance meetings and leadership reviews; maintain action, decision, and risk records. - Prepare concise dashboards, risk assessments, and decision materials for senior leaders, escalating significant issues. - Assess risks, opportunities, resource constraints, and scope or timeline trade-offs; support scenario planning. - Improve project standards and reporting practices while keeping processes practical.

Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, pharmacy, medicine, business, or a related field, with 8–12+ years of relevant experience. - Strong understanding of clinical development from Phase 1 through Phase 3 and major regulatory submissions. - Command of integrated planning, critical-path analysis, risk management, governance, budgeting, and lifecycle management. - Experience leading complex, global, cross-functional teams in a matrix environment and influencing without formal authority. - Strong problem-solving, judgment, accountability, and ability to balance speed, cost, quality, and compliance. - Excellent executive communication, facilitation, stakeholder influence, and decision-support skills.

Nice to have - PMP certification or a comparable project management qualification.