Director - Program Management - Hemophilia A PTT - Baxter Healthcare - Deerfield

Job description
The Director of Project Management manages a multi-level project management group. This role, which is the 7th level project management position, ensures consistent practices throughout all projects in the initiation and implementation processes. The Director of Project Management will be accountable for the financial analysis including market research, cash flow, capital, and program positioning. This person will collaborate with all related functions within the business as well as with external stakeholders. The director will be a key member of the project prioritization process and will be involved with other key strategic business portfolio processes to insure that the development projects being funded meet strategic objectives. The director may have the responsibility to create and/or manage a project management office This person will be accountable for launch date commitments to businesses based on anticipated cash flows and will manage stakeholder expectations with regard to Baxter deliverables during development.


The Director of Project Management is an experienced cross-functional project leader and is accountable for the overall implementation activities. This person will serve as a champion of the Accelerated Project Performance and Product Life Cycle processes recognizing how project results seriously impact the overall success of the organization

STRATEGY
· Leads key team members in establishing strategy
· Applies consistent project management practices across organization
· Provides leadership in the prioritization of activities between projects/programs/platforms
· Participates in the evaluation process for future development endeavors
· Identifies and establishes key objectives
· Conducts project evaluations and recommends changes, continuation, or termination as appropriate

RISK MANAGEMENT
· Accountable for decisions regarding taking the appropriate risks when there is substantial program or platform involvement

ADMINISTRATION
· Participates in business contract negotiations
· Responsible for the appropriate program structure and standard performance metrics throughout all phases from initiation to scale-up
· Contributes to the creation and maintenance of historical databases for the purpose of tracking, trending, learning, and improving decisions regarding program performance and continuance. Ensures appropriate linkages of this information to the project prioritization and/or product portfolio process.
· Maintains direct involvement with R&D, marketing, and regulatory organizations at Baxter and with external stakeholders.
· Supports management decision-making process.
· Maximizes business results through continuous improvement in organization's ability to execute programs and projects from initiation to completion and production scale-up.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
· Coaches project leaders on project management skills, including leadership and stakeholder management, as well as project management practices and resource allocation
· Conducts regular performance reviews with project leaders
· Acts as promoter to create a project culture that facilitates Accelerated Project Performance
· Identifies and helps to remove organizational obstacles and behaviors that hinder project success.
· Develops consistent metrics for measuring project success and team performance
· Ensures knowledge is shared with resources and promotes team learning across projects
· Responsible for defining program strategies, developing goals, and orchestrating team appraisal process
· Provides guidance for team members in close collaboration with their direct supervisor
· Ensures that the development team achieves stated goals
· Selects, develops, and manages direct reports
· Develops future project management capabilities of indirect reports

FINANCE MANAGEMENT
· Manages the dedicated budget and resources
· Collaborates with project leaders to plan, forecast and monitor costs, NPV and ROI.
· Provide financial analysis and justification for new products
· Purchase of supplies and equipment as needed up to $100,000
· Capital Equipment

ISSUE RESOLUTION
· Eliminates or minimizes barriers to progress
· Anticipate potential conflict situations for proactive solutions
Manage conflict situations to result in win-win outcomes

Desired Skills and Experience
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in appropriate discipline, Masters or equivalent desired.
Minimum 15 years in product development in a biotechnology or pharmaceutical company and 5+ years of project management experience with increasing complexity, including managing multi-geographic division or enterprise-wide projects.
PMI or IPMA or equivalent certification desired.

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