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West Pharma Program Manager 
United States, Pennsylvania, West Whiteland Township 
866621838

17.04.2025
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Responsible for compiling reporting status and critical issues to management and customers. Provides analysis for project plans and schedules to identify critical path(s), optimize plans, facilitate discussions between team members.
  • Leads programs with high resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity
  • Leads customer and external support services, e.g. suppliers and contract vendors, to facilitate the development and execution of assigned projects/programs.
  • Drives transparency of program workloads, financial, commitments, and expectations.
  • Build, track, and manage program schedules in Microsoft Project.
  • Maintain the program related data within the West Project Management System.
  • Monitor resource needs and issues, work closely with resource managers to develop action plans to ensure program commitments remain on track.
  • Manage cross-project and program dependencies, escalating to the Research and Development management as needed.
  • Analyze, Forecast and Report the program budget.
  • Ensure Research and Development programs are planned properly, including financials, resourcing, scheduling, and the business case, in support of quality deliverables.
  • Define, drive and manage change management and communications activities that support assigned programs.
  • Lead/support the development of business cases on assigned programs and track ROI for business initiatives including cost, benefits, and risk.
Additional Responsibilities
  • Compliments team deficiencies and drives financial accountability.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, business partners, functional managers, and other senior level executives.
  • Solves complex problems with broad business impact.
  • Champion of the Research and Development PM/PDP process and methodologies.
  • Communicate Research and Development PM/PDP key messages, goals, and objectives to functional team members in their local geographies or business units.
Education
  • Bachelor's Degree Engineering (Preferred Biomedical or Industrial Engineering) required
License and Certifications
  • Program and Project Management\Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI preferred
Work Experience
  • Minimum 8 years successfully managing global large-scale, high-risk programs required
  • Program Management experience with matrix and cross-functional project teams required
  • Medical Materials, Medical Device and/or Drug Delivery Systems product development preferred
  • Prefillable syringe industry experience preferred
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Working knowledge of applicable federal and international regulations such as 21CFR Parts 210, 211, and 820. cGMP manufacturing experience preferred.
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office suite software, project management software such as MS Project.
  • Knowledge and demonstrated experience managing projects or programs in the medical device and pharma manufacturing industries, knowledge of applicable federal and international regulations.
  • Experience and capability at delivering written and verbal reports to senior and executive management.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple globally dispersed individuals and disciplines. Must possess the ability to influence others without direct authority.
  • Requires specialized depth and breadth of expertise in industry, Program Management, and business acumen.
  • Works independently, with guidance only in complex situations.
  • Cultivates teamwork through leadership and fills knowledge/skill gaps on project teams as needed.
  • Communicates complex concepts; anticipates potential objections and influences others to adopt a different point of view
  • Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services
  • Drives/Supports functions with the preparation of business cases, plans, budgets and artifacts necessary to comply with the Portfolio Management Process.
Physical Requirements
Sedentary-Exerting up to 10lbs/4kgs of force occasionally, and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.