Senior Project Manager is expected to be a technical and business expert in biotechnology CMC operations, including some broad knowledge of GMP manufacturing, quality and regulatory requirements.
Note: This role is has some flexibility for site and home office working.
Site based either Redmond or Seattle.
Responsibilities:
- In partnership with internal and client/partner technical leaders and as part of the technical team, provide project planning, execution, monitoring and reporting support
- Enable and support information and data exchange between Just and its partners and clients.
- Daily project management activities: meeting planning, setting agendas, creating dashboards, documenting meeting minutes, tracking and follow up of action items and decisions, document management, ensuring overall team organization
- Communication: ensuring smooth communication across teams, clients and up to leadership; ensuring regular updates to the appropriate stakeholders; managing escalation and decision-making processes.
- Meeting facilitation: facilitate meetings with internal and external project teams, leadership meetings, and on site client meetings
- Timeline management: working with technical leads, functional leads and clients to ensure timelines are kept on track; ensuring quick communication of delays and issues; regular reporting on project status and risks to appropriate stakeholders
- Risk management: Identify project issues and facilitate resolution, conduct risk management and contingency planning including facilitation of risk assessments
- Development of best practices and business processes: Lead teams in the establishment of project management best practices and tools as well as business processes to establish efficiencies to project management organization
- Organize cross-functional communication and logistics with outside vendors
- Provide project management leadership and expertise within CMC technical teams.
Qualifications and Educational Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, biochemistry, chemical engineering or related field
- Minimum 7 years of previous project management experience in biotech, GMP manufacturing or pharmaceutical industry.
- Expertise in CMC, commercial technology transfer, GMP manufacturing and Quality Systems
- Expertise with MS Office tools, MS Project, OnePager, Smartsheet
- Excellent organizational, relationship and communication skills
- Motivation to be part of a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
- Biologics contract manufacturing organization (CMO) experience
- Experience with IND filing support
- Experience working with government contracts
- Proven record of implementing biopharmaceutical project management tools, methodologies, practices, and infrastructure.
The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be $120,000 to $145,000; Base salary offered may vary depending on individual’s skills, experience and competitive market value. Additional total rewards include discretionary annual bonus, comprehensive benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, short-term and long-term disability, company paid basic life insurance, 401k company match, flexible work, generous paid time off and paid holiday, wellness and transportation benefits.
Evotec (US) Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, age, disability, genetic information, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
What We Do
Evotec is a biotechnology company that is committed to advancing drug discovery and development. Through flexible business models, we collaborate with pharmaceutical companies, biotechs, foundations, and government agencies on a substantial scale. We believe that by working together, we can make a difference in the lives of patients.
Our Pipeline Co-Creation model represents our adaptable, multi-modality, fully integrated end-to-end approach to drive collaborations and services across all phases of drug discovery and development – from discovery of novel targets to achieving Proof of Concept in the clinic and into commercial manufacturing.
We aspire to contribute data-driven disease understanding and early disease relevance in humans to bring the probability of success up. We select the right modality, which is then propelled forward on our platforms by our passionate people striving for the fastest and most effective ways towards patient impact. This is enabled by convergence of human ingenuity with data and AI.
We also offer specific solutions, products, and CRO/CDMO-like services, always in support of the Biopharma R&D innovator. Our more than 4,000 scientists work closely with numerous partners concurrently, delivering fully integrated research and development portfolios or individual projects with the highest quality standards and efficiency, coupled with great science, passion, engagement, and communication.
