Hybrid Associate Director, Development Project Management

at MSD

• Job title: Associate Director, Development Project Management
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $142,400 - $224,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Rahway, United States

About the role

• Associate Director managing drug development projects in cross-functional teams at pharmaceutical company. Leading complex projects and driving business process improvements in drug and vaccine development.

Responsibilities

• Managing the end-to-end drug development process, including projects of significant complexity; driving cross-functional teams and leading by influence to develop comprehensive strategies and ensure successful execution.
• Act as enterprise leaders by guiding teams through the creation, approval, and execution of integrated project plans appropriate to the project's phase of development and complexity.
• Building and maintaining project schedules and critical project information in enterprise project management systems and databases.
• Using these tools to integrate activities across key team members, proactively identify risks, address uncertainty, escalate appropriately, assess program status, and ensure clear and effective communication with key team, management, and cross-departmental stakeholders.
• Leveraging relationships and networks to improve and enhance team dynamics; proactively identifying and removing obstacles to drive business results.
• Leading key team meetings including creating thoughtful agendas, ensuring appropriate participation, contributing project management insights, and following up to ensure the team continues to make progress while holding others accountable.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; concentration in a scientific or applied discipline preferred.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in project management or a related role required.
• Product development experience required; in a pharmaceutical/biotech industry preferred.
• Advanced degree (e.g., MS, MBA, Ph.D., PharmD) preferred.
• Product development experience strongly preferred (ideally in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry).
• Experience and knowledge of clinical drug development strongly preferred; including the different phases of development and how the various functional areas contribute to a comprehensive strategy.
• Project management certification (PMP) and/or formal coursework/training in project management strongly preferred.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days