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Director, Project Management

Sarasota, FL (West Coast)

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ROLE IS AN ONSITE POSITION; CANDIDATES MUST RESIDE OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE

Akron Biotech is continuing to transform and further its rapidly growing capabilities and is now seeking highly motivated professionals to join our expanding team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a critical role within our organization that is driving advanced therapy development and commercialization with high quality industrial scale solutions. We manufacture and distribute components and raw materials for cell therapy discovery, development, and commercialization to meet industry needs worldwide. We offer an array of highly competitive benefits and perks to our valued associates.

The position will drive the development and execution of integrated cross-functional program plans that enable the delivery of products to clients. Scientific competency and knowledge is essential for this role to interact with the cross functional stakeholders, contribute to development strategy and translate the strategy into execution.

Responsibilities:

• Guide program teams through development stages, while ensuring transparent, cross functional communication of program progress.
• Coordinate regular program team meetings, including escalation of key issues, setting clear agendas, and communication of priorities.
• Develop risk management plans and regularly valuate and communicate the probability and impact of risks to program deliverables.
• Responsible for timeline and resource management, budgeting, change management, design and planning documentation as necessary for the assigned projects.
• Monitor scheduling or resourcing issues and opportunities and recommend activity prioritization.
• Define process for monitoring high-level project deliverables and timelines for ongoing manufacturing projects. Bring visibility to site management regarding project milestones at risk and suggest risk mitigation strategies where appropriate.
• Ensures all decisions are assessed as to their risks and impacts. Accountable for communication to team and stakeholders in a transparent and timely manner.
• Liaise with clients to understand their business needs to ensure we are meeting their expectations on projects, project milestones, etc.
• Collaborate with program teams to develop strategy, and identify key program goals.
• Facilitates effective, science-based decisions including development of scenarios as needed, highlighting interdependencies and downstream impacts of strategic decisions in projects.
• Manage and oversee the development of client onboarding processes including project initiation activities, communications, deliverables, cost estimates, and project planning.
• Collect data and provide routine reporting on operational metrics and key performance indicators.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in business, or a life sciences or related discipline; advanced degree in a life sciences discipline is highly preferred.

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) as well as Project Management applications.
• End-to-end experience in managing PMO initiatives will be advantageous.
• Maintains a core understanding of all aspects of the product and process development life cycle in support of commercialization of products.
• Experience managing and/or leading cross functional teams, preferably in a CDMO environment, is required.
• Self-motivated and highly flexible individual who is able to manage multiple tasks, and priorities within a fast-paced environment with minimal oversight.
• The successful candidate will exhibit strong technical expertise, leadership and management skills, and a willingness to work both strategically and hands-on.
• Ability to multi-task, excellent written and verbal communication skills, organizational skills, and attention to detail required.
• Working knowledge of cGMPs or regulatory affairs pertaining to the biotechnology industries preferred.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience within the life science industries, with a minimum of 3 years of experience managing projects; end-to-end experience managing complex CDMO projects is highly preferred.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• Must possess excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to be able to prioritize and re-evaluate priorities as situations change.
• Demonstrated ability to influence; excellent interpersonal, organizational, written and verbal communication skills.

DFW/EOE

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ROLE IS AN ONSITE POSITION; CANDIDATES MUST RESIDE OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE