Associate Director, Project Information Management Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
The Associate Director, Project Information Management provides support to users of the system to ensure that the information required by the business (activities, cost and value) is available for decision making at the project and portfolio level. This role is responsible for providing systems support in the drug development project planning process and the PLANIT tool set (Planisware and reporting). The role is also responsible to facilitate the delivery of project objectives by utilizing the program and project management techniques available within the tool set.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Identification of process/tool issues and recommended solutions
Development and management of PLANIT Business Processes, e.g.:Monthly Reference Line Process
Project Base-lining
Portfolio and Business Update Review Process
Business requirement collection of changes required to the system based on organizational or continuous improvement efforts, e.g.:
Activity template changes
Algorithm changes
Coordination and implementation of business changes in the PLANIT system
Ad Hoc PLANIT consultancy when Global Project Managers and Functional Project Managers need advice on how to complete a task within the PLANIT system or through a PLANIT process related to their project
Will assist in both small and large scale initiatives that have impacts on our Planisware system
Facilitator of best practices and ways of working with our systems and business processes
Assisting with Data Quality efforts within the PLANIT system
PLANIT Project, Timecard, Interface and Business Process training management
Interfaces to other systems needed to integrate key information used by the business for project management, business analysis and reporting (e.g. Veeva Clinical Vault, ACCORD, SOAR, SAP, etc.)
Requirements/Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience
Experience:
System software/Portfolio Management
Knowledge of project management as a subject area including the ability to create, coordinate, and maintain an integrated product plan and to control or respond to changes in strategy and scope.
Expertise in use of enterprise-wide pharmaceutical project management software solutions, including skills in critical path analysis. MS Project and/or Planisware experience is required in a Pharmaceutical/Biotech environment.
General understanding of financial and resource planning systems and processes and ability to coordinate project-level budget/resource estimates and lead actuals vs. plan.
Experience with reporting software such as Power BI, Business Objects, and Spotfire is desirable.
Product Development ProcessA level of knowledge/awareness of the overall biologic/pharmaceutical product development process, including stages of development and role of different functional areas.
Experience in working on a multi-functional team.
Other Experience/AbilitiesMust be professional, dedicated, and detail-orientated and have the flexibility to travel domestically and internationally.
Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, analytical, and digital literacy.
Optimal organizational skills required, including good time management skills.
Highly organized and able to work independently on multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
Leadership Capabilities Required:
Commitment to Customers & Integrity
Focuses on what is important: balances and prioritises across diverse and competing customers, needs and opportunities. Demonstrates the courage to make tough decisions about where to invest time and energy
Acts Decisively
Takes calculated risk: makes effective decisions despite uncertainty and/or incomplete information to drive business outcomes. Communicates clearly to ensure alignment and empowers others with decision-making authority as appropriately
Works Collaboratively
Encourages Diverse Thinking: creates an environment in which diverse viewpoints are sought and encouraged both within and beyond the team
Drives Accountability
Holds others accountable: Communicates clear expectations of behavior and outcomes as well as why these standards matter. Holds others to account for delivering them
Job Complexity: Medium
Supervision: Meets requirements outlined above with some supervision.
Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.
