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Associate Director - Medical Project Manager
Contract: Mettawa, Illinois, US
Salary Range: 80.00 - 85.00 | Per Hour
Job Code: 365621
End Date: 2025-11-28
Days Left: 24 days, 7 hours left
To Discuss more about this job opportunity, please reach out to Deepak Arya (LinkedIn URL - www.linkedin.com/in/deepak-arya-8a79aa22a/), email your updated resume at Email - deepak.arya@collabera.com. Thank you!
Pay rate: $80 - $85/hr. (Negotiable)
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, (paid time , paid sick and safe time , hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, paid holidays annually - AS Applicable)
Positions Details:
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Duration: 12 Months (++Possibility of Extension)
Job Mode: Hybrid (Onsite - Tue–Thu; WFH - Mon and Fri)
Purpose:
The Medical Affairs Project Management (PM) team focuses on driving performance through learning, technology, and the practice of innovation. The Associate Director Project Management serves as both a primary point of contact and strategic partner for TA leadership. The scope of this role is global, supporting multiple Therapeutic areas (TAs) at a programmatic level (i.e. multiple related TAs).
Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Partnership & Leadership
The Medical Affairs Project Management (PM) team focuses on driving performance through learning, technology, and the practice of innovation. The Associate Director Project Management serves as both a primary point of contact and strategic partner for TA leadership. The scope of this role is global, supporting multiple Therapeutic areas (TAs) at a programmatic level (i.e. multiple related TAs).
Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Partnership & Leadership
- Acts as a thought partner to the VP on HEOR priorities and enterprise leadership commitments.
- Creates priorities with clarity and focus.
- Serves as a delegate in meetings when needed.
2. Strategic Initiative Management
- Lead end-to-end project management for HEOR’s strategic initiatives (e.g., functional planning, launch readiness, qtrly ev gen reviews, etc).
- Develop clear charters, milestones, success metrics, and governance for key initiatives.
- Drive execution discipline with team ensuring timelines, deliverables, and interdependencies are managed proactively.
- Anticipate risks and implement mitigation strategies.
3. Operational Excellence
- Owns the planning and orchestration of leadership forums (NELT, XLT, planning sessions, offsites).
- Partners with cross functional partners to lead annual planning process
- Track progress against HEOR objectives, priorities and tactical plans
- Laise with commercial and medical project leads (PLs) to ensure HEOR alignment on key initiatives/events
- Liase with Raj’s team to monitor resources, budgets, and headcount planning.
4. Communications & Stakeholder Engagement
- Craft internal communications (slides, leadership messages, updates for cross-functional partners).
- Foster transparency by ensuring key messages cascade effectively throughout the V&E organization.
- Build bridges within V&E pillars and cross functional partners (e.g., IMAP, medical affairs, commercial teams, etc) to ensure HEOR delivers impact evidence generation.
5. Organizational & Talent Enablement
- Support culture initiatives by shaping engagement activities, pulse surveys, and feedback loops.
- Supports broader V&E initiatives with Grete
- Partners with MHI Ops leadership to ensure HEOR is included in ops planning initiatives
Core Capabilities & Skills Required for MPM
- Enterprise leadership mindset and able to prioritize
- Strong project/program management expertise (PMP or equivalent a plus)
- Strategic thinking paired with operational excellence
- Exceptional communication, storytelling, and influencing skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive in ambiguity and pivot with agility
- Understanding of the V&E strategic priorities, enterprise context, functional interdependencies, and business strategies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific or business-related field is required.
- Project management certification (e.g. PMP) preferred.
- Applied knowledge of project management tools and processes (e.g. management of integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk and procurement).
- Performance measurement (e.g. metrics, dashboards).
- At least 10 years of experience pharmaceutical experience with a Bachelors, 9 years with MS, 8 Years with PhD.
- Experience should include 3-4 years of project management and/or process improvement related experience. Demonstrated management experience.
- Demonstrated management experience preferred
Job Requirement
- Medical Affairs Project Management
- HEOR (Health Economics and Outcomes Research)
- Strategic Operations & Governance
- Cross-Functional Stakeholder Alignment
- Pharmaceutical Program Leadership
- Process Optimization & Performance Tracking
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- Phone
- Deepak Arya
- deepak.arya@collabera.com
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