The Medical Affairs Project Management (PM) team focuses on driving performance through learning, technology, and the practice of innovation. The Associate Director Project Management serves as both a primary point of contact and strategic partner for TA leadership. The scope of this role is global, supporting multiple Therapeutic areas (TAs) at a programmatic level (i.e. multiple related TAs).
location: Lake Forest, Illinois
job type: Contract
salary: $85 - 95 per hour
work hours: 9 to 5
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
- Strategic Partnership & Leadership
- Acts as a thought partner to the VP on HEOR priorities and enterprise leadership commitments.
- Creates priorities with clarity and focus.
- Serves as a delegate in meetings when needed.
- Strategic Initiative Management
- Lead end-to-end project management for HEOR's strategic initiatives (e.g., functional planning, launch readiness, qtrly ev gen reviews, etc).
- Develop clear charters, milestones, success metrics, and governance for key initiatives.
- Drive execution discipline with team ensuring timelines, deliverables, and interdependencies are managed proactively.
- Anticipate risks and implement mitigation strategies.
- Operational Excellence
- Owns the planning and orchestration of leadership forums (NELT, XLT, planning sessions, offsites).
- Partners with cross functional partners to lead annual planning process
- Track progress against HEOR objectives, priorities and tactical plans
- Laise with commercial and medical project leads (PLs) to ensure HEOR alignment on key initiatives/events
- Liase with Raj's team to monitor resources, budgets, and headcount planning
- Communications & Stakeholder Engagement
- Craft internal communications (slides, leadership messages, updates for cross-functional partners).
- Foster transparency by ensuring key messages cascade effectively throughout the V&E organization.
- Build bridges within V&E pillars and cross functional partners (e.g., IMAP, medical affairs, commercial teams, etc) to ensure HEOR delivers impact evidence generation.
- Organizational & Talent Enablement
- Support culture initiatives by shaping engagement activities, pulse surveys, and feedback loops.
- Supports broader V&E initiatives with Grete
- Partners with MHI Ops leadership to ensure HEOR is included in ops planninginitiatives
qualifications:
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in a scientific or business-related field is required.
- At least 10 years of experience pharmaceutical experience with a Bachelors, 9 years with MS, 8 Years with PhD.
- Applied knowledge of project management tools and processes (e.g. management of integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk and procurement).
- Performance measurement (e.g. metrics, dashboards).
- Experience should include 3-4 years of project management and/or process improvement related experience.
- Project management certification (e.g. PMP) preferred.
- Demonstrated management experience preferred.
skills: Project Management, MS-Project, PMP
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
