US Medical, Business Strategy & Operations - Sr. Manager, Medical Operations

The Position

The Opportunity

As a USM Business Strategy and Operations (BSO) Senior Manager, you will be a strategic partner to USM stakeholders, leading functional and network activities to compliantly execute strategic plans. This individual contributor role offers the chance to lead meeting facilitation, communications, strategic planning, and monitor the impact of key initiatives. You'll ensure projects are high-quality, on-time, and within scope, helping the team achieve its priorities. Bring your expertise to drive innovative solutions and contribute significantly to our medical impact.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management:

• Deliver high-quality project management, including strategic planning, resource and budget management, progress tracking, and meeting facilitation to enable organizational success.
• Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, engage with vendors, drive prioritization, and potentially manage alliances, ensuring impactful medical outcomes.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner, leading the development of strategic plans and ensuring timely, within-budget project delivery.

Communication & Engagement:

• Develop and execute communication and change management plans, fostering collaboration and embodying company principles.
• Monitor team health, identify synergy opportunities, and demonstrate strong emotional intelligence and influencing skills.
• Thrive in ambiguity, exhibit sound decision-making, and contribute to a positive and productive team environment.

Strategic Thought Partnership / Inspiring and Influencing:

• Inspire and mobilize teams without direct authority, skillfully influencing peers and superiors with courage and effectiveness.
• Demonstrate an enterprise-wide and portfolio-oriented perspective, consistently prioritizing medical impact.
• Thrive in ambiguous environments, making sound decisions to prioritize effectively and navigate complex interdependencies, while adapting to evolving business needs and managing challenges proactively.

Business Processes and Compliance:

• Provide guidance to network and/or functional organization to ensure business processes are followed appropriately and compliantly by the team. Proactively identify risks, including process gaps, escalating the issues to appropriate stakeholders.
• Working with the team and appropriate compliance/process SMEs, solve complex issues through appropriate risk mitigation; when appropriate simplify work processes.

Technology Systems:

• When needed, working with appropriate IT and business stakeholders, create or update technology systems to increase efficiency or fill a process need in USMA

Agile Champion:

• Applies agile project management methodologies and tools to medical networks and functional teams, fostering an agile mindset focused on collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Maintains deep knowledge of relevant therapeutic/functional strategies and drug development processes to effectively guide and influence teams.
• Invests in personal and team development to enable achievement of ambitious goals and excellence in medical affairs tactics.

Who you are

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required (advanced degree such as PharmD, PhD, MBA degree is preferred)
• 6 or more years relevant experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology, preferably in Medical Affairs or project management.
• Working knowledge of drug development and medical affairs; in depth knowledge and experience in product development, drug commercialization and healthcare/market landscape

Preferred Experience:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent is preferred

Location / Travel Requirements

• This position is based in South San Francisco
• Business travel, by air or car is required for regular internal and external business meetings

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $136,100 - 252,700. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

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