Title: Global Program Manager
Location: Welwyn Garden City, UK
Duration: 12 Months
Mode: Hybrid 50%
Job Description:
Scope: The role is accountable for Program Oversight and Planning, Team Management, Communication, Portfolio Context, and Strategic Thought Partnership. It involves influencing R&D across many therapeutic areas and requires interactions with partners across the organization, including Clinical Development, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, and Commercial organizations. The GPM guides molecule teams and contributes to portfolio management and functional or company-wide initiative workstreams, demonstrating influence without explicit authority at various organizational levels.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Be a core member of one or more molecule/disease area teams and drive drug or disease area development programs as well as established (foundational) product teams to maximize efficiency, portfolio value and patient benefit.
- Provide strategic program management to project teams, framing and assessing options, and identifying inflection points and critical factors for project delivery, decision-making and governance.
- Guide molecule teams, in close collaboration with the respective team leader.
- Build and maintain highly functioning project teams by observing team dynamics, building trust, addressing issues and encouraging open dialogues.
- Keep teams on track to deliver short-, mid-and long-term activities to achieve team objectives and drive key program/project meetings & workshops, team communication and documentation.
