Director, Project & Program Management Nottingham, England
Calyx
Full Time
Nottingham, England
31800 - 44000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
We’re on a mission to change the future of
clinical research. At Calyx, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.
clinical research. At Calyx, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.
What can we offer you?
Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:
YOURSELF
YOURSELF
- 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more)
- Simplyhealth Health Cash Plan
- Optional private health and dental insurance, and
- Cycle to work scheme
- Generous pension scheme with up to 10%
- Life assurance
- Season ticket loan
About the role
We are looking for a Director, Project & Program Management, to join our MI, R & D division. The role will be accountable for all projects/programs within MI (Medical Imaging). As a Program manager, you must have experience in running product-related technical projects with excellent vendor/stakeholder management. You would have worked in a true Global environment looking after large budgets using Agile delivery methods. The role will be managing 5 project managers to ensure they are running their projects run on time and within budget. A background in managing product-related projects in MI, Healthcare, or life science is a plus but not essential.
The role is located at our Nottingham office (Hybrid - home or office). We would consider a UK-based candidate to work remotely but you must be able to travel to the Nottingham office once a month.
The role will be responsible for the leadership and delivery of large or complex projects and programs to support clinical, regulatory, and business users, including but not limited to new product Introductions, software releases, upgrades to new or existing systems, and client implementations.
The role is Accountable for the on-time delivery of projects and programs with agreed budgets and deliverables, enabling business objectives to be met whilst providing overall leadership to project managers of all levels that drive high performance and skill competence.
Duties include:
Supporting Activities Project Management
- Sets organisational strategy governing of the direction and conduct of project management, including the application of appropriate methodologies
- Authorises the management of large-scale projects - Leads project planning, scheduling, controlling, and reporting activities for strategic, high impact, high risk projects
- Manages risk and ensures that solutions to problems are implemented in line with change control processes
Release & Deployment
- Assesses and analyses release components
- Provides input to scheduling
- Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods, manual or automatic, ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management
- Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained
Portfolio Management
- Leads the definition of a portfolio of programmes, projects, and/or on-going service provision
- Engages and influences senior managers to ensure the portfolio will deliver the agreed business objectives
- Plans, schedules, monitors, and reports on activities related to the portfolio to ensure that each part of the portfolio contributes to the overall achievement of the portfolio
- Collects, summarises, and reports on portfolio KPIs often through the deployment of business management processes and systems
- Identifies issues with portfolio structure, cost, risk, inter-dependencies, impact on current business activities and the strategic benefits to be realised
- Notifies projects/programmes/change initiatives of issues and recommends and monitors corrective action
- Reports on portfolio status as appropriate. Change management
- Develops implementation plans for complex requests for change
- Evaluates risks to the integrity of service environment inherent in proposed implementations (including availability, performance, security and compliance of the business services impacted) Seeks authority for those activities, reviews the effectiveness of change implementation, suggests improvement to organisational procedures governing change management
- Leads the assessment, analysis, development, documentation and implementation of changes based on requests for change
Business Risk
- Carries out risk assessment within a defined functional or technical area of business
- Uses consistent processes for identifying potential risk events, quantifying and documenting the probability of occurrence and the impact on the business
- Refers to domain experts for guidance on specialised areas of risk, such as architecture and environment
- Co-ordinates the development of countermeasures and contingency plans
Financial management
- Advises on financial planning and budgeting
- Develops financial plans and forecasts
- Monitors and manages IT expenditure, ensuring that all IT financial targets are met, and examining any areas where budgets and expenditure exceed their agreed tolerances
- Assists with the definition and operation of effective financial control and decision making, especially in the areas of service, projects and component cost models and the allocation and apportionment of all incurred IT costs
- Analyses actual expenditure, explains variances, and advises on options in use of available budget Consultancy
- Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution
- Identifies, evaluates and recommends options, implementing if required
- Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements
- Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited
Relationship Management
- Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups
- Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables
- Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding
- Facilitates business decision-making processes
- Captures and disseminates technical and business information. Performance Management Provides leadership and managements to a global team
- Determines, delegate and allocate management responsibilities and work across teams
- Sets performance objectives, coaching, supporting and monitors progress against agreed quality and performance criteria and local legislations/policies
- Monitoring and address progress accordingly. Initiates, develops and monitors effective performance management processes
- Mentors and influences individuals in consideration of their career opportunities and in developing organization wide consistent lean six sigma capabilities.
- Leads on formal processes such as compensation negotiations and disciplinary procedures
- Ensure all people related KPI’s and activities are consistently and fully achieved
- Carryout any other reasonable duties as requested
Skills
- Background in running product related projects in a global environment
- Excellent stakeholder/Vendor management
- Experience of Agile delivery methods
- Experience of managing project managers and the ability to effectively delegate work to team members
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
- Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail
- Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment
- Demonstratable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks
- Builds and maintains an in-depth knowledge of Project Management practices within the life sciences industry and how they affect customers adopting our products
- Ability to define and implement appropriate strategies
- Ability to identify and implement process improvements
- Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate
- Ability to identify the appropriate leadership style to manage the individuals in their team
- Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect technology within the Life sciences domain
- A self-starter and able to work under own initiative
Come as you are.
We're proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
We're proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Calyx
www.calyx.ai
Nottingham, United Kingdom
David Herron
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Private
Biotech & Pharmaceuticals
2021
