Associate Director, Strategic Initiatives & Global Project Management

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Summary:

The Associate Director, GPM&L drives development and execution of programs, projects, and strategic initiatives for Daiichi Sankyo global R&D function. Ability to lead independently and support project and change management for complex, cross-functional initiatives for global teams and workstreams, ensuring comprehensive understanding of business and stakeholder needs, planning and optimal execution and adoption within the business. Assignments include strategy enablement such as capabilities and processes, leveraging multiple skill sets in project management, process improvement, change management and analytics. This position will also lead and support divisional and departmental level objectives for Asset & Portfolio Management. The Associate Director may provide oversight and guidance to 1-2 team members supporting the initiatives. Ensure interactions and timely collaboration across R&D, key stakeholders and supporting functions. Proactively identify and facilitate risks, mitigations, resolution and escalation of issues, tracking and communicating status to stakeholders and group leadership. Strong communications skills required with the ability to engage with senior leaders through various communication mechanisms and presentations. The successful candidate has a solid understanding of the drug development process and is skilled in the use of project management tools. Experience working on global, cross-functional teams as well as an understanding of facilitating high-functioning teams.

Responsibilities

Project Management:

• Collaborate with global, cross-functional project teams to define project scope, deliverables, responsibilities and timelines
• Prioritize work effort and lead project teams to drive completion of deliverables
• Ability to work independently across multiple stakeholder groups, identify and manage decisions and escalations to senior leadership
• Develop and manage status reports, project plans, actions, risks, meeting agendas and minutes
• Create draft deliverables and Executive presentations in collaboration with business SMEs; communicate with, present to senior leaders

Process Improvement:

• Ability to define and document processes, critically analyze and define areas for improvement
• Facilitate workshops to define current state, future state and process gaps
• Lead and develop new processes, ways of working and support the implementation within the business

Change Management:

• Identify the needs and define the content required to support change management, communications and training needs (e.g., stakeholder analysis, training requirements, stakeholder communications) to ensure successful implementation within the business
• Collaborate with change leaders across the organization to ensure harmonization with the approach, addressing cross-functional business impacts, dependencies and interdependencies.

Strategy:

• Understand organizational strategy and how to enable the implementation of the strategic objectives
• Research and assess innovative ways to support strategic execution for the organization

Analytics:

• Define, drive and develop models in Excel or Business Intelligence tools for project needs
• Define, drive and develop management reports and dashboards
• Understand survey tools and metrics and how to deploy across the initiatives to monitor performance of improvements

Qualifications: Successful candidates will be able to meet the qualifications below with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Education Qualifications (from an accredited college or university)

- Bachelor's Degree in science, engineering or business. required

- Master's Degree Advanced degree in science or business preferred. preferred Experience Qualifications

- 7 or More Years 7-10+ years relevant project management, process improvement, business analysis or consulting experience. required

- Prior work experience as a top tier management consultant, project manager or similar role in pharmaceutical drug development desirable. Project Management, process improvement, change management qualification, certification or diploma is highly desired. • Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry/ drug development preferred • Scientific background desirable preferred

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.