Hobson Prior are looking for a Project Manager to join a global biopharmaceutical organisation who are focused on providing pioneering medicines in Oncology, Neuroscience and Rare Diseases to improve the quality of life for patients. You will join them on a contract basis in Slough.

Job Responsibilities:

• Project Management: Deliverables on time / at risk, key milestones, contingencies, resource constraints if required, issues, update plan regularly to ensure data for metrics reporting is accurate.
• Serve as the central operational point of contact for team members. Ensure that the plan is realistic for all R&D functions as well as satisfy the company's Outsourcing Model (FSO-FSP).
• Support project and team to ensure resource, cost and schedule are up to date to enable long term planning (if required).
• Development and management of comprehensive risk assessment.
• Work with team members to identify risks and create and manage a project risk register with contingency plans.
• Development and management of a sustainable knowledge approach.
• Update and utilize project document repository (SharePoint site) for knowledge retention. Perform lesson learned at stage / gate step and when required. Capture them in the database. Use knowledge database during project definition phase.
• Support communications to governance bodies from teams.
• Adherence to the organisations Compliance Policies and Procedures and ways of working
• Actively adhere to a Quality Management System that supports GxPs and Regulatory requirements and satisfies all internal quality and external regulatory authority expectations.
• Ensure project deliverables are managed to enable completion on time and according to required scope.
• Ensure the workstream scope, participants, roles and responsibilities, plan and resource requirements are accurately defined. Ensure project tracking and reporting is completed. (action / decision logs - dashboards).
• Implement an effective reporting and scope change approval to ensure project objectives are clear to prevent project / workstream deliverable scope creep.

Key Skills:

• Fluent English mandatory, French would be a plus.
• Must have experience with MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and electronic document management repositories.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong analytical / critical thinking and decision-making abilities.
• Sound project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and as a team player.

Requirements:

• Full understanding of Quality System management and clinical development process requirements, with a prime focus on GCP related quality and compliance requirements applicable to the end to end clinical research value chain.
• Bachelor's Degree in Science. Masters or PhD is a plus.
• Certification in Project Management or a minimum of 5 years in a lead project management role at a transformational or quality system level.
• A minimum of 5+ years' experience in the Pharmaceutical industry and /or CRO or related industry in either Project Management/PMO, clinical operation, regulatory or quality position.
• Subject Matter expert level of ICH-GCP and other applicable worldwide regulations governing clinical research. US/EU pharmaceutical regulations experience would be considered beneficial too.
• International exposure or multi-cultural and cross functional working environment.
• Experience in leading virtual teams within different regions and cultures.
• Project and Visio experience preferred.

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