MSD Sr Manager Project Management 

China, Beijing, Huairou District 

920279684

Job Description

Manage the development and maintenance of project management system and other PM related tools.

• Regularly report project metrics and generate data analysis/summary to support PM and/or other MRL stakeholders to understand MRL portfolio status / make business decision.
• Ensure PM to follow standard project management process and methodology in daily work and are aligned with HQ GPAM work instructions.
• Monitor the compliance and optimize local PMO policies, processes, and procedures.
• Contributes to the prioritization and execution of China PMO Initiatives and continuous improvement.
• Complete PMO business operations tasks such as benchmarks management and portfolio budget forecast report.
• Ensure PM owned, managed, or affiliated processes are evaluated and feedback is provided to process owners regularly. Actively participate in PM and continuous improvement initiatives that require product development experience and understanding of procedures and policies, and which may involve influencing areas/senior management outside of PM.
• Participate in continuous improvement projects led by different areas that have a significant impact on the work and/or effectiveness of PM. Provide input into the evaluation of PM's scope of activities as required by Senior Management.
• Drive and provide input into key departmental initiatives and/or departmental administrative activities.
• Take relevant training courses to increase knowledge of the discipline of project management and understanding of product development in the pharmaceutical industry and to improve leadership skills.

Support of Portfolio (~25%)

• Independently manage product development teams and/or early development teams.
• Develop project milestones and deliverables; prepare reports that summarize key progress and issues on development programs across departments, divisions, and franchises, including preparation of background documents and presentations to senior management.
• Guide teams through the effective execution of management-approved strategic plans for assigned projects; this includes ensuring risk management plans are fully developed, contracts are agreed upon and adhered to, change control procedures are followed when significant program deviations are encountered, communications within and external to the team are effective, and approved team resources and budgets are appropriately planned and managed.
• Ensure project data are accurately reported in databases and understood by development team members, including information used to derive costs, schedule, resources, and any other data pertinent to creation and management of project plans.
• Apply learning from assignments on prior teams/projects to new projects and effectively guide teams in areas of developed expertise.
• Ensure that team meetings have structure and clear purposes and goals; facilitate meetings and clearly communicate decisions and action items to team members and relevant parties outside of the team.
• Monitor team dynamics regularly to ensure optimal team performance. Take action to correct problems within a team stemming from miscommunication, differences of opinion, misaligned objectives, inexperience, etc. Resolve conflicts and issues within teams.
• Monitor processes and ensure that those responsible are informed of their effectiveness; advocate for and contribute to the success of change/process improvements when warranted.
• As appropriate, may be the assigned PM representative on key franchise committees/teams.
• May manage and/or administer strategic management or development committees. Provide significant input into the evaluation and revision of processes and tools used to support the meetings, as appropriate.

Current Contingent Workers apply

Requirements

• BS/MS/Ph.D. with 5+ years of pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience, including 3+ years project management related experience.

• Project management experience and/or certification.
• Must have good skills with electronic tool/software including MS Office, MS Project, Power Apps and Power BI.
• Understand the drug development process well and be good at data analysis/summary. Demonstrated experience/skills on risk identification, analysis and mitigation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in addition to proven experience negotiating, managing change, goal setting, planning and organizing, teamwork, addressing difficult situations and understanding technical information.
• Strong conflict management skills to drive consensus among internal team members/functional leaders in accomplishing project and business goals.
• Demonstrated strong ability to work independently and accomplish goals in team settings; experience in leading task forces for assigned work. Proven ability to effectively keep projects and assignments on track or properly rescoped with management approval.
• Can relate project details to larger divisional/corporate strategies, as appropriate, to provide context to team.
• Demonstrate good judgment and creativity in team environments. Be agile to identify the potential risk and can provide innovative solution to handle the challenge/issue.
• Knows when and how to speak up and appropriately raise issues to the team and management.
• Fluent English and Chinese written and spoken skills.

Not Applicable

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10/01/2024

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