Senior Director, Oncology Global Programme Management (Cell Therapy)

Senior Director, Oncology Global Programme Management (Cell Therapy) 

Gaithersburg, MD, candidates from Boston, MA will also be considered

Global Portfolio & Project Management (GPPM)

Hybrid Work- on average 3 days/week in office

The Senior Director, Oncology Global Project Management is a key leadership position, accountable for the project management of Global Project Teams (GPTs), working alongside Global Product, Scientific, Clinical Commercial Leaders to establish the brand strategy and deliver the approved project plans. 

You will be assigned to lead programmes of the highest complexity and priority and are regarded as key leaders within the GPT and GPPM organization. This is a critical and exciting opportunity to use your scientific knowledge and strategic expertise to lead and influence decisions that will have a direct impact on patients’ lives. Working at the highest levels, you will ensure the decisions we make position AstraZeneca for maximum return on investment and positive patient outcomes.   

What you'll do

Strategic Business Partnership 

• Provide program management leadership and excellence through active input into the project strategy ensuring alignment of the program strategy with operational reality 

• Lead development of drug project, cross-project, or portfolio strategies 

• Where applicable, work with alliance partners and run joint alliance forums and governance committee  

• Identify key business opportunities or needs for strategic shifts based on external and internal events 

• Partner with Business Development to provide strategic input to potential deal cases (investment & divestment) 

• Ensure appropriate linkages between project strategy and key internal processes (TA strategy, TA prioritization, corporate scorecard)  

Cross-functional Team Leadership and Delivery  

• Lead project management of cross functional drug development teams and ensure delivery of strategic objectives 

• Create a shared sense of purpose, inspiring and energising others to build and maintain a cohesive High Performing Team. 

• Coach project teams and GPT towards successful issue resolution and decision making. Engage with critical stakeholders to address barriers or challenges facing team 

• Focus the GPT on the right activities at the right time. Coordinate the efforts of sub-teams to ensure delivery at multiple levels of the development team. 

• Design, implement, and optimize effective communication within and outside the team. Coordinate with corporate communications to lead the team’s external communication plan.  

• Ensure the team has a good information management system in line with AZ best practice. Ensure integrity of information management systems to connect to external parties. Drive continuous improvement in how the team approaches information management 

• Ensure data quality as per agreed standards and monitoring metrics 

• Identify development opportunities for team members 

Governance and Investment Decisions  

• Lead team towards optimized governance decisions – e.g. evaluate multiple strategic options and drive team to value-maximizing drug development decisions  

• Provide guidance to both the team and senior management / governance bodies that allows efficient (timely and informed) decision making  

• Leverage broad influential network and ensures engagement at all levels prior to key decisions  

Planning, Monitoring and Delivery  

• Ensure that overall GPT deliverables, budgets, schedules, and performance standards are realistically set, governance approved and attained, and that the project effectively fulfils all information management and business reporting requirements 

• Direct project support staff in maintaining plans of the highest data quality, accountable for all integrated project management deliverables associated with the GPT  

• Accountable for all integrated Project Management deliverables associated with the program 

Entrepreneurship  

• Serve as a role model for cross-functional collaboration and effective conflict resolution 

• Lead by example in learning and innovation, seek opportunities to change paradigms and remove barriers within and outside the team 

• Apply extensive business insight to drive cross project learning, champion and embed better ways of working across the enterprise.  

• Proactively promote learning and knowledge sharing. Expected to mentor or supervise other project managers. May provide input for staff development, recruitment, succession planning and resource model.  Help establish new company best practices 

• Share lessons learned and communicate those throughout the GPM community to drive adoption of knowledge beyond the GPT 

Essential for the role