US_Program Manager

Overview

Job Title: Program Manager

Location: Research Triangle Park, NC

Duration: 6+ months

Details of the job:

• Contract:
  
  6 months with strong potential to be extended to 1 year
• This position will be based on-site at an operational pharmaceutical facility in RTP, NC and is an on-site, contract role for an Operational Readiness Project Manager and workstream ensuring the site is ready to receive this change and sustain it within routine production operations.
• Strong experience with operational and quality assurance functionalities within large scale drug substance manufacturing are a must!
• Mon – Fri, standard work weeks and hours with occasional overtime
• Regular interaction with project teams, contractors, and site operations staff.
• Ability to work in an open office environment with frequent distractions. AND within a matrix team is a MUST
• MES E  exposure will be extremely helpful

Education: 4-year degree in engineering, sciences, project management or other technical field of study

• Lead development of action items, risks associated with business process mapping, change impact assessments
• Development of schedules and status updates
• Gathering of status updates on action items, schedule
• Proficiency in MS Project, Smartsheet, Visio, Think Cell or other project management software desired
• Leading business process mappings / process flows (current vs future state) including Visio build outs. Translation into actions for establishing new operational state
• Lead tracking and adherence to plan for documentation updates
• Tracking and leading workstream activities for various operational elements to support operational. Includes leading meetings, capturing meeting notes, actions items, status updates.
• Generation of weekly progress dashboards on work streams
• Assist with schedule build out, gathering weekly status updates, leading work streams to plan. Identification of schedule risks, mitigations.
• Generation, update, status report out of readiness task trackers
• Strategy development supporting functional review sessions and management of these sessions to plan
• Facilitation and ability to lead teams to decisions, actions, risk development in working sessions

• Proven success leading projects or acting in a project management support capacity with 8 or more years of experience
• Familiarity utilizing Project Management Tools based on PMBOK, PMI principles to lead projects
• Experience leading or supporting operational readiness elements of projects desired
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional, matrixed teams
• Organized, and detail-oriented with ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a highly regulated, compliance-driven setting (pharmaceutical industry).
• Proficiency with MS Office suite of products and other software platforms

• Manufacturing Technical Operations (MTO)
• Quality Assurance
• Engineering
• Manufacturing