Snr Associate/Manager - External R&D, Clinical Project Manager

Eli Lilly and Company; Cork; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company in Cork is seeking a Pharmaceutical Project Manager to oversee drug development initiatives. The role involves leading cross-functional teams, managing project timelines, and ensuring successful collaboration with external partners. Candidates should have a degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 3 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Knowledge of project management tools is essential. This position offers a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in the pharmaceutical industry, drug development, or project management.
• Higher degrees or certifications (e.g. MS., MBA, Project Management certifications) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead cross-functional team meetings.
• Drive alignment and action items with external partners.
• Monitor and prioritize program risks and contribute to mitigation strategies.
• Develop integrated project plans and oversee delivery milestones.
• Provide quality content and reports for partner invoicing.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Education

Four-year degree in health-related, scientific or engineering field

Tools

PRISM

SmartSheet

PowerBI

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Project

Job description

Overview

Organization Overview: The ExploR&D Pharmaceutical Project Manager (PPM) will provide operational drug development leadership across the External Innovation R&D portfolio. This includes partnering with ExploR&D Program Leads to ensure implementation readiness, program oversight and support external partnerships for collaboration projects including both clinical and preclinical deliverables. As necessary, this role will also liaise with ExploR&D Business Development and Discovery Program Leads to enable seamless program transitions.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating and Supporting ExploR&D Collaboration Portfolio Delivery:
  • Plan, direct and lead cross-functional team meetings including agendas, minutes and necessary follow-up actions.
  • Communicate with external partners to drive alignment and action items to progress program deliverables.
  • Provide quality and timely content (i.e. agendas, meeting minutes) by partnering with ExploR&D Program Lead and functional team members while leveraging project management tools (e.g., PRISM, SmartSheet, PowerBI, internal financial systems) and ensuring all team members have appropriate access to information.
  • Monitor and prioritize program risks, contribute to mitigation strategies and initiate contingency plans as needed.
  • Ensure change management processes in place to manage the project and reconcile with project commitments made with partner on scope, cost, schedule, and value.
  • Develop integrated project plans aligned with the obligations of the collaboration agreements and oversee delivery of project milestones
  • Monitor programs and milestones to ensure achievement of key project deliverables in alignment with the integrated development project plan and in compliance with quality standards.
  • Drive financial accounting (direct and indirect) across programs, providing internal reports (actual vs. planned, etc.), lead discrepancy resolution, and partner with finance to ensure accuracy of partner invoicing as needed.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams to deliver on project commitments
• Execute with proficiency in self-management and organizational skills; able to self-manage time and workload, set personal and team priorities and adjust as needed.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and teambuilding skills; develop effective teamwork between team members and external partners with diverse styles.
• Exhibit curiosity and creative problem solving.
• Application/Improvement of Processes (Shared Learning):
  • Leads through shared learning, process improvement, and identification of special/complex needs
  • Share learnings and retrospectively review lessons learned
  • Bring forward areas for continual process improvement to increase efficiency and success. Liaise with Project Management Office (PMO), Resource Modeling and Forecasting (RMF) and Portfolio Operations and Business Planning (POBP) teams to identify, share, and incorporate best practices into future processes, tools and training to support both External and Internal R&D
• People:
  • Consistently demonstrate the four Team Lilly behaviors of Include, Innovate, Accelerate and Deliver
  • Contribute to the development of others by being an active source of coaching and feedback to coworkers

Basic Requirements

• Four-year degree preferably in a health-related, scientific or engineering field
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in the pharmaceutical industry, drug development, or project management and/or product development

Additional Preferences

• Higher degrees or certifications (e.g. MS., MBA, Master’s degree in Project Management or PMP)
• Demonstrated scientific and technical leadership in cross functional environment
• Knowledge of the external environment, including VC and biotech landscape
• Knowledge of or previous experience with drug development processes and application of project management tools and processes in cross-functional settings
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project (or related tools) and capable of maintaining appropriate project documentation

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