Senior Programme Manager - Drug Discovery

CK Group - USA are working with a long standing client to help recruit a programme manager with drug discovery experience to join our client on a permanent basis at their offices in King of Prussia.

Our client are a clinical-stage retinal gene therapy company developing and delivering gene therapy beyond rare disease to treat a leading cause of blindness.

You will play an helping hand to manage some of the leading drug development programmes both at the strategic and day to day operational level. As well as contributing to the set-up of the project management office, including tools, process and influencing behaviours within our client.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the day to day planning and oversight of the successfuldelivery of long and short-term programme objectives. Work with the project leader and team to update programme driven business plans, budgets, forecasts, and report actual performance against plan, identifying and analysing key variances against plan, and highlighting critical path activities. Work with the team to identify risks and manage these with understanding of impact for this programme and others. Develop, maintain, and align an accurate, integrated programme timeline, resource plan(budget and people), and integrated cross functional plan with the ability to communicate this at the appropriate level, such as operational teams and senior leadership. Demonstrate the ability to work positively with a wide range of individuals involved in the programmes and across the organisation.

Requirements

Demonstrable experience in programme management in big pharma and/or biotech. Understanding of the development of a product/device from concept through research, development, manufacturing, commercialisation and close. Some experience in managing product/device teams and in the pre-clinical and clinical phase of development. Ability to negotiate and influence the success of the team and project. Have an understanding ofthe financial and resource planning systems and processes and ability to coordinate programme-level budget/resource estimates and manage actuals vs. plan.

Entitlement to work in the USA is essential. If you would like to find our more about this role please contact us on +1 (617) 6922948 or email usa@ckscience.com. Please quote 52306 in all communication.formation or to apply for this Trainee Recruitment Consultant position, please email applications@ckgroup.co.uk. Please quote reference 52341.

INDRECher at conferences or seminars appropriate to the discipline.

• Contribute to grant applications submitted by others.
• Begin to write, with appropriate support, bids for individual research funding or, where funders do not permit this, contribute to the writing of collective bids.
• Begin to referee papers for external bodies.
• Participate effectively in activities to achieve engagement with research, and/or impact beyond academia.
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Criteria

Education, Experience & Achievements

Essential

• A relevant postgraduate research degree or equivalent professional experience in the field of carbohydrate material science.
• Previous experience of independent research.
• Presentations at conferences and a track record of publications in respected journals or equivalent in the field.

Desirable

• Research experience in polysaccharide and their industrial applications.
• Involvementin packaging material research and development.
• Materials formulation and characterisation expertise.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrable communication skills in English language.
• Good IT skills in Microsoft/Adobe Programmes.
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
• Good time management and organisational skills.
• Good interpersonal skills. Initiative in planning research.
• Detailed subject knowledge in the area of research.
• Specialist knowledge and practical skills capable of leading to independent, original contributions to the subject area.
• High-level analytical skills.
• Full awareness of the ethical issues involved in their research work.

Desirable

• Project managementexperience.
• Team working skills.
• Communication skills.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to communicate complex information clearly, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to stimulate and encourage the commitment to learnin others.
• Ability to use initiative, and apply creativity, to solve problems that

Desirable

• A passion for making a positive impact on the environment especially in plastic waste.