Associate Director, Project Management
- Employer
- Bristol Myers Squibb Company
- Location
- Redwood City, CA, United States
- Start date
- Oct 20, 2019
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- Discipline
- Clinical, Clinical Project Management
- Required Education
- Bachelors Degree
- Position Type
- Full time
- Hotbed
- Biotech Bay, Best Places to Work
Job Details
Join us and make a difference. We hire the best people and provide them with a work environment that places a premium on diversity, integrity, collaboration and personal development. Through a culture of inclusion, we create a better, more productive work environment. We believe that the diverse experiences and perspectives of all our employees help to drive innovation and transformative business results.
We are currently looking for an Associate Director, Project Management, to join our Research Division, for Bristol Myers Squibb in Redwood City, CA. The successful candidate will play an integral role as a key team member in supporting our research programs.
Specific Responsibilities
Partner with research leads to manage the development and execution of project team strategy and to optimize team effectiveness in achieving program objectives in alignment with timelines.
As an essential member of the Discovery Working Groups (DWG), work with team leadership to ensure aligned development plans.
Establish and maintain functionally integrated project schedules to enable accurate project timelines.
Support project sub-teams as needed and ensure alignment with project sub-teams and functional partners.
Facilitate core team meetings, cross-functional communication and decision making, ensuring alignment with internal stakeholders.
Ensure core team activities and decisions are clearly communicated, documented and archived, act as a primary contact for project team related information.
Identify, recommend, and manage the implementation of process and other improvements; whether pertinent to departmental and/or site.
Provide or drive immediate and accurate communication of key decisions/results that have team, asset, and/or organizational impact.
This individual will also be responsible for discovery project effectiveness under the one oncology umbrella across sites which will include coordinating scientific leadership meetings within Redwood City as well as across the different sites.
Requirements
BS, MS, MBA, PhD, or other advanced degree in a physical or natural science with 5 or more years of project management experience in the Discovery and/or pharmaceutical industry. A strong scientific background and familiarity with discovery drug development is desirable.
Excellent time management and organizational skills.
Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team which include Discovery, Translational Medicine, and early/late Development governance and other key functions.
Demonstrated proficiency in project management, including planning, execution, delivery and reporting and experience in handling multiple projects.
Ability to anticipate risks and identify issues and to troubleshoot and create solutions, balancing portfolio and asset needs.
Strong communication skills, and ability to communicate with stakeholders from diverse functional areas.
Strong ability to prioritize and operate with a sense of urgency.
Comfort with ambiguity and complexity required; must be open to work across multiple projects and modalities simultaneously.
Strong interpersonal skills with polish and presence; ability to influence others at all levels and lead in a matrixed organization.
Build and manage relationships with key cross-matrix stakeholders. Demonstrate influence across Discovery, TM, and R&D functional leadership. Build and integrate the Translational Strategy into the DWG
Utilize project management tools to build and sustain high performing cross functional teams.
Bristol-Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.
Company
Bristol Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases.
At Bristol Myers Squibb, we believe in the power of science to address some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our focus on these unmet needs comes during a remarkable time, when unprecedented scientific breakthroughs are advancing the treatment of disease as never before in human history.
We work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. Each day, our employees around the world work together for patients – they are at the center of everything we do. They inspire us. They are the reason we come to work each day.
We combine the agility of a biotech with the reach and resources of an established pharmaceutical company to create a global leading biopharma company powered by talented individuals who drive scientific innovation.
- Website
- http://www.bms.com/
- Phone
- +1-800-332-2056
- Location
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430 E. 29th St
14th Floor
New York
New York
10016
United States
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