Senior Director, Drug Development & Portfolio Management - Home-Based (US or Canada)

As a Drug Development Project Manager you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence.

• Controls the agreed upon scope and ensures the team stay within the agreed scope.
• To agree the project lifetime plan with stage-driven level of detail, to proactively indicate and mitigate risk and resolve issues.
• Continued maintenance and communication of the project planning of timeline, budget, and resourcing. This includes the flagging of delays, underspending/ overspending, and insufficient or inadequate resourcing where they may liaise with governance, Finance, and
• Function Heads on behalf of the team.
• High performing team’s effectiveness e.g., through proactively addressing stakeholders and partnering with the project leadership to ensure effective project team and governance meetings.
• Partnering with the different teams and function Leads to translate team strategies into fully integrated functions-overarching project plans. They take ownership of the plans and derive and share insights that influence project strategy.
• Pursue positive team dynamics (e.g., works with HR to organize team building or to seek general advice; with team leadership to ensure safe sharing of thoughts) and organize consistent storage of (working) documents and easy access for team members and stakeholders as appropriate.
• Promptly communicates substantial acceleration or delay on the project and downstream impact to project leadership and corporate management and proactively drives corrective actions to be put in place as needed.
• At project level, partner with internal and external stakeholders (teams, functions, governance, alliance partners, licensees – as needed) set up effective project communications and manage change towards common goals while championing conflict resolution. On behalf of the project team, reach out for updates, guidance, and/or endorsement at governance meetings and ad-hoc meetings:
• Find, develop, and deploy methods and frameworks to inform prompt, quality decisionmaking.
• This to facilitate operational excellence in all business processes in support of drug development projects and PMO’s process improvement projects and tool introductions e.g., through sharing best practice, creation and management of templates, trackers, and business process documents.
• Ensures critical review of resources allocated to the integrated project plan
• Partners with finance to unburden the organisation from any budget related question, perform baseline comparisons and inter-budget exercise variance analysis. Perform internal benchmarking and optimize internal project templates.
• Co-creates with business process managers the dashboard and is the business liaison to identify the reporting needs from our business partners.

• Strong project management skills; broad exposure to the pharma R&D process; advanced planning experience with MS Project. PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is an advantage.
• Able to deal with continuous change.
• Advanced degree (Master or PhD) in health-related discipline or equal by experience.
• At least 10 years of drug development experience in distinct phases of development, in different disease areas.
• At least 5 years of Program Management experience in a Pharmaceutical or Biotech environment, preferably cross-cultural.

• Genuine interest and some experience in people management.

• Experience in Regulatory Affairs and/or Clinical Development is an advantage.

Why ICON?

Our focus is to provide you with a comprehensive and competitive total reward package that comprises, not only an excellent level of base pay, but also a wide range of variable pay and recognition programs. In addition, our best in class employee benefits, supportive policies and wellbeing initiatives are tailored to support you and your family at all stages of your career - both now, and into the future.

Our success depends on the knowledge, capabilities and quality of our people. That’s why we are committed to developing our employees in a continuous learning culture – one where we challenge you with engaging work and where every experience adds to your professional development.

ICON, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know.

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

**Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, education/training, and skill level.**