Senior Director, R&D Project Management

CSL Behring is a global biotechnology leader, guided by a promise to save and improve lives. Millions of people around the world are living with rare and serious medical conditions. CSL Behring is committed to delivering medicines that improve their lives.

With operations in 35+ nations and ~ 30,000 employees worldwide, CSL is inspired to develop and deliver a broad range of lifesaving therapies to treat disorders such as hemophilia and primary immune deficiencies, and vaccines to prevent influenza. Our therapies are also used in cardiac surgery, organ transplantation and burn treatment. CSL is the parent company of CSL Behring, CSL Plasma, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor. CSL Behring is a global leader in the protein biotherapeutics industry, focused on bringing to market biotherapies used to treat serious and often rare conditions.

Could you be our next Senior Director, R&D Project Management? This position is located in our King of Prussia PA office. It is a Hybrid role. You will report to the VP, R&D Project Management.

Responsibilities:

• You will define a strategy for building main skills across Project Excellence; identify targeted R&D project-focused audiences and associated learning goals; develop a planned schedule of offerings to meet our needs
• Identify intended outcomes/improvements for participants, create scorecard and measure success linking both high-performing team behaviors and portfolio metrics for success
• Lead culture change, promoting shared values and collaboration, supporting the shift from functional-focus to project-focus
• Develop budget for management of programs; deliver value and build within approved budget.
• Introduce a change management plan to initiate and put emphasis on connection, collaboration and the need to improve the Strategy Teams (PSTs) and product champions.
• Develop and provide meeting & workshop facilitation and presentation expertise to support main TALT and PST meetings, using foundational project management, drug development and product-specific expertise
• Survey evolving project and strategies, and incorporate skills into program to promote our high-performing team culture and respective strategy
• Work with senior leaders and partners across and beyond R&D for further optimization of the project operating model, including appropriate change management; improve on the capabilities to further guide a project-focused culture, teams, and project leadership
• You will design and manage project excellence and high-performing team training programs in partnership with the enterprise L&D organization; develop content through collaboration and partnership with senior leaders of project teams and responsibilities and external experts
• Further develop a 'Community of Practice' for the GPL network, supporting ways of working and sharing of best practices (includes providing appropriate tools, templates, enhanced yet streamlined ways of working/processes), creating a foundation as a 'learning organization' focused on continuous improvement
• Create the project excellence capability to strengthen core project management enterprise to create consistency and data-driven outcomes.
• Provide oversight and management of ROI assessments; develop and capture trends; measure success and metrics; redesign accordingly

Qualifications:

• 12+ years pharmaceutical or biotech experience
• 7+ years consulting background and/or experience in training
• 10+ years' experience supervising direct reporting staff
• 12+ years' experience working within a matrix organization
• 7+ years Change Management experience
• Post-graduate qualifications in business administration or related field preferable
• Bachelor's in science/business or relevant discipline essential

BENEFITS

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401K
• PTO

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