Project Planner (FSP)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Planning/Controlling (Scheduling and Resource Management)

• Responsible for coordinating, monitoring and reporting project schedule and resource management information to enable alignment of PRD and partner line schedules and FTE/dollar resources. These schedules include:

•  Clinical study plans (Protocol Development to Final Clinical Study Report) and Clinical Operation Submission activities to support Module 1 and 5 of the submission plan.

• Identifies and raises schedule conflicts, risks, and resource peaks/troughs appropriately for resolution.

• Directly participates in and contributes to cross-functional and functional teams to discuss, review, and optimize protocol/project/program schedules and study cost estimates.

• Monitors progress of project activities towards next project milestone, anticipates and highlights potential variances, supports line/team in critical path analyses and understanding the impact.

• Performs scenario planning of project timelines within and across protocols and across disease area/portfolio to enable optimum use of local, global, and outsourced resources to ensure efficient delivery of project milestones.

Project Execution and Delivery

• Partners with key team members (e.g., PM, Medicinal Sciences, CS&O, DSRD, Commercial) to manage the project and achieve key milestones according to the endorsed timeline, cost, and quality parameters.

• Contributes to risk management through the identification of operational and project/program risks for discussion with appropriate team leadership.   Participates in team discussions to de-risk projects and develop new options to resolve moderately complex issues.

• Provides the Portfolio Management group with project schedule information to enable effective portfolio management activities.

Analysis and Reporting

• Produces what-if scenario analyses (base, optimistic and pessimistic development) based on context obtained from project team members (e.g. PM, Medicinal Sciences, CS&O, DSRD, Commercial).  Decisions taken by the team based on these analyses may impact project delivery, costs, and resource requirements.

• Reviews own work regarding quality of schedule and resource metadata through utilization of quality reports and monitoring/management of such data with the team/line members.

• Provides timely reporting to the PM, Portfolio Management, and project teams, alerting them to the possibility of endangered/missed or conflicting milestones and critical path activities.

• Ensures regular information updates and analysis and interpretation of planning and forecasting data to project teams, Portfolio Management, platform lines, and management teams.

• Utilizes available reporting and visualization tools to support governance and team reporting needs (e.g. OnePager, Business Objects, Spotfire).

• Provides context to local customers of reports generated globally and consolidates customer feedback to enable improvement of existing reports and generation of new reports.

Process

• Partners with project team members (e.g. PM, Medicinal Sciences, CS&O, DSRD, Commercial) to identify opportunities and potential solutions to realize efficiency in the development process.

• Contributes to continuous improvement of project plans, plan generation, plan utilization, and/or report creation/development processes.

Minimum Requirements

Training & Education Preferred:

Education

• Bachelors level degree.

• B.S. with 2+ years' experience or M.S. with 1-2 years' experience.

Experience

• At least 1 year experience in project planning and project management.

• At least 2 years’ experience in pharmaceutical industry or related/similar industry.

Beneficial Relevant Capabilities

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred but not required.

• Experienced in end-game/regulatory submission planning and/or product launch planning.

• Experienced with planning and resource forecasting tools (e.g., MS Project, Planisware, OnePager).

• Experienced user of reporting and office software (e.g., MS Office, Business Objects, Spotfire).

• Trained/experienced in negotiation, facilitation and managing cross-functional team dynamics.