Senior Director, Management Office and Business Excellence in Basking Ridge at Daiichi Sankyo

Job Description

Join a Legacy of Innovation 110 Years and Counting!

Daiichi Sankyo Group is dedicated to the creation and supply of innovative pharmaceutical therapies to improve standards of care and address diversified, unmet medical needs of people globally by leveraging our world-class science and technology. With more than 100 years of scientific expertise and a presence in more than 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo and its 15,000 employees around the world draw upon a rich legacy of innovation and a robust pipeline of promising new medicines to help people. In addition to a strong portfolio of medicines for cardiovascular diseases, under the Group's 2025 Vision to become a "Global Pharma Innovator with Competitive Advantage in Oncology," Daiichi Sankyo is primarily focused on providing novel therapies in oncology, as well as other research areas centered around rare diseases and immune disorders.

Join a Legacy of Innovation 110 Years and Counting!

Daiichi Sankyo Group is dedicated to the creation and supply of innovative pharmaceutical therapies to improve standards of care and address diversified, unmet medical needs of people globally by leveraging our world-class science and technology. With more than 100 years of scientific expertise and a presence in more than 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo and its 15,000 employees around the world draw upon a rich legacy of innovation and a robust pipeline of promising new medicines to help people. Under the Group’s 2025 Vision to become a “Global Pharma Innovator with Competitive Advantage in Oncology,” Daiichi Sankyo is primarily focused on providing novel therapies in oncology, as well as other research areas centered around rare diseases and immune disorders.

Summary

This position leads Project Management Office and Business Excellence (PMO/BE), the strategic planning and implementation group within CSPV. The Sr Director PMO/BE manages DSI CSPV and global clinical safety and epidemiology function's strategic projects. This position collaborates within global PV and CS teams, and interdepartmental teams and interacts with CROs, vendors, and partners. This level manages escalated issues with responsibilities of identifying and solving business issues and problems, designing business solutions that meet CSPV's needs.

Responsibilities

• Project Management: Responsible for planning, managing, and coordinating projects within DSI CSPV and global clinical safety and epidemiology function. Prepare business requirements and generate documentation for Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) documents. Evaluate RFI and RFP responses and recommend a solution. Review “quick-hit” projects to ensure that they provide immediate benefit with little cost, risk, or need for coordination. Review the principles, constraints and assumptions for proposed projects. Deliver the project according to plan within contracted time frame and budget, meeting quality standards. Plan projects by producing realistic project plans and estimates. Manage the delivery of all work products against plan. Manage CSPV acceptance and understanding of scope and deliverables. Determine the critical success factors for the engagement. Delegate work to appropriate project resources, giving project resources the authority to make decisions. Report progress against budget and time frames to CSPV Leadership. Monitor and manage scope change requests. Work closely with CSPV Leadership to drive projects toward achieving the intended business results.
• Business Excellence: Help to identify the business areas in greatest need of change using client needs, best practices, and benchmark performance measures. Understand and support CSPV and DSI leadership vision. Direct and coordinate the gathering of business requirements through a variety of techniques (e.g., workshops, work sessions and interviews). Facilitate process mapping and design workshops. Review high-level and detailed business process designs for scope adherence. Review and present gap analysis highlighting current state, future state, CSPV needs, and best practices. Facilitate discussions to identify root causes for operational and quality issues. Identify performance metrics for current-state business processes. Establish performance goals for future-state business processes based on CSPV needs, best practices, and benchmark performance measures. Conduct impact analysis of process redesign on existing organization roles, principles, and technical infrastructure and guide others to understand the impact.
• Management Strategy and Goals: Develops goals, continued compliance and strategy for process improvement initiatives with senior management team.

Qualifications: Successful candidates will be able to meet the qualifications below with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Education Qualifications (from an accredited college or university)

• Bachelor's Degree Bachelor’s degree in nursing, pharmacy, life sciences, health care or related field; required and
• Master's Degree pharmacy, life sciences, health care or related field; preferred and
• MBA preferred

Experience Qualifications

• 10 or More Years project management experience required and
• 7 or More Years Minimum of eight (8) years of business process analysis/design experience; preferred and
• 1 or More Years Minimum of two (2) years of Drug Safety/Pharmacovigilance experience, including both investigational and marketed products; required and
• Knowledge of FDA regulations, clinical and safety databases,
  Familiarity with Good Clinical Procedures (GCP) and Good Pharmacovigilance Procedures (GVP)
  PMI’s PMP certification preferred
  Prosci or ACMP certification preferred
  Six Sigma certification preferred
  preferred and

Travel

Ability to travel up to 5%

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.