Servier Pharmaceuticals Hiring for Senior Project Manager, External Manufacturing atBoston, MA Full Time

About Servier:

We’re an organization, committed to modelling diversity, equity, and inclusion for the entire industry, and to maintaining an inclusive environment with equitable treatment for all. We are interested in growing our team with passionate, committed, and innovative individuals. We encourage all to apply to our open roles and are always willing to consider skills and experiences outside of what is listed in the job description.

Summary of Role:

The Senior Project Manager position is part of a new and growing External Manufacturing organization comprised of Biologics/Pharmaceutical Operations, Quality, MSAT, Procurement, Supply Chain and Finance. This position is a core member of the External Manufacturing Virtual Plant Team (VPT) and will oversee all stages of priority projects, working with cross-functional, cross-company, global teams. This position will support the day-to-day operational aspects of External Manufacturing Teams, both tactical and strategic. The ideal candidate has a strong project management foundation, experience in commercial biologics and/or pharmaceutical manufacturing, and a passion for building and improving standard work processes and tools. The project manager is an agent for collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, urgency and change agility.

Specific Responsibilities

Project management

• Project manager for both strategic and tactical priority projects primarily supporting the External Manufacturing Virtual Plant Team (VPT) and sometimes the Brand Team – Strategic Operations Team (SOT).

  • Examples of the types of projects may include: technical process improvements, tech transfer, quality, business process improvements, etc.

  • Develop and manage project dashboards for monthly reporting for VPT projects.

  • Will be the assigned project manager for a subset of those projects

• Provide general project management support for VPT and SOT, as needed.

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• Support ad-hoc tasks/initiatives for cross-functional ExM Organization.

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• Utilize, and in some cases create, standard work processes and tools for all aspects of project management, including but not limited to:

  • Planning, Execution, Monitoring, Controlling, and Closing of projects

  • Creation and management of all required project plans, i.e. communication, stakeholder, risk identification, escalation, Gantts, etc.

  • Visual dashboards (project status, top risks/issues, heatmaps, etc.)

  • Meeting agendas, minutes, action items

  • Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly reporting

  • Budgeting and accruals

  • Scope of Work (SoW) and Purchase Order (PO) review and approval cycles

Assist with documentation management of GMP and Business documents

• PDCA (plan, do, check, act) of current documentation practices and standard work

• Assist with planning, monitoring, controlling, and closing of many document types (GMP and Business) in paper-based systems (change controls (CC), protocols, reports, investigations, customer requests).

Manage data collection and reporting of metrics/KPIs

• Assist with creating and/or utilizing scorecards to report on metrics/KPIs.

• Establish and/or oversee development and management of mitigation plans to improve performance, as needed.

Be innovative

• Recognize and embrace simpler, more efficient ways of working

• Discover and implement the use of new tools and/or software for documentation tracking, metrics, data management, etc.

Skills and Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Scientific or Engineering field or equivalent experience

• 10 years relevant work experience

Demonstrated Skills:

• Leadership – ability to lead cross-functional teams through project lifecycle using a collaborative approach to build consensus

• Influencing – using influencing skills and techniques to communicate with people at multiple levels within the company

• Organization – managing multiple projects concurrently and having consistent approach to communication and project updates

• Detail oriented – providing the right level of detail to the right audience

• Demonstrating a responsible and accountable mindset

• Focus on risk identification and mitigation management

• Emphasis on continuous improvement

• Operating with a transparent and authentic work style

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of adjusting communication style between tactical teams, strategic teams, and executive teams

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in the Pharmaceutical industry, with specific focus on Pharmaceutical and/or Biologics commercial manufacturing, external manufacturing

• PMP Certification

• Experience with successful implementation and use of project management software/tools

• Experience with data analytics and metrics reporting software/tools

• Experience leading successful cross-functional, cross-company, global teams

Other Relevant Information

• Approximately 10% domestic and international travel is required to meet the needs of the business

• Position is located in Boston, MA and/or Remote

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