Role: Analytical Strategy Planner

Location: Dublin

Contract role: 12 months

Daily Rate: €320 per day

5 days onsite

At Hays Recruitment, we have a fantastic opportunity for an Analytical Strategy Planner with a BioPharma company in North Dublin.

Role Description:

In this role you will be responsible for managing the book of work in the Analytical Strategy & Lifecycle (ASL) team.

You will develop and manage project plans, timelines, and capacity models for associated projects. The role will involve identifying and responding to critical path barriers, maintaining a risk registry and associated contingency plans, and preparing executive progress reports.

You are required to work in a cross-functional and dynamic setting where project assumptions and scenarios may change and therefore, require an individual who can quickly adapt to the changes and manage communications at different levels in the organization.

Your work scope will include planning various projects related to the lifecycle of commercial products with project planning responsibilities related to analytical methods, specifications, reference standards, and comparability approaches. T

This role will work with other project planners and subject-matter experts, including Analytical SMEs, internal & external Analytical Transfer and Testing teams, Analytical Product & Strategy Leads, Regulatory, and the Leadership Team.

Responsibilities:

• Provide analytical project planning and management by maintaining timelines, keeping track of major milestones, and ensuring analytical CMC deliverables are met on-time for various brands.

• Define and monitor progress on deliverables and maintain timelines and budgets in alignment with program milestones, leveraging project planning and management best practices.

• Coordinate financial and FTE resource forecasting based on the ongoing analytical book of work and planned future activities.

• Facilitate and communicate project activities with all relevant stakeholders.

• Maintain and update the brand operational risk register, track action items against identified risks, and communicate/document status/resolution periodically.

• Manage multiple, medium to high complex cross-functional process improvements in support of commercialisation projects.

• With input from the Analytical Product Leads and Leadership team, lead the development of integrated timelines and book of work, ensuring that alignment with Global Project timelines.

• Serve as a member of analytical subteams coordinating harmonized operational ways of working across brands, tracking timeline elements to ensure that functional deliverables are completed on time and according to relevant quality standards.

• Ensure adherence to applicable project budgets and propose capital appropriation requests where applicable.

• Proactively identify program risks and work with the team and team leader to develop contingency plans.

• Responsible for the preparation of routine status reports and communicating project progress to the various stakeholders.

• Ensure that team recommendations related to project direction and timelines which need endorsement by governance teams are planned for review at appropriate milestones

• Effectively manage day-to-day operational activities for the team, such as routine brand report dashboard, departmental and brand book of work review meetings, quality metrics for the team, management of brand repository platforms etc.

Qualifications & Experience

• Excellent knowledge of, and competency in, project management processes, including planning, resource planning and allocation, and risk and issue management.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills

• Must be able to interact and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization

• High attention to detail skills

• High organization skills with the ability to multitask for several objectives in parallel

• People and project management skills

Education/Experience/ Licenses/Certifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in science or related disciplines with at least 4+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry

• Minimum 3 years of project planning/management experience within a manufacturing GMP environment

• Experience and/or understanding of analytical methods commonly applied to biologics (iCIEF, HPLC, CE, Bioassay, ELISA, LC-MS, etc.).

• Biologics Regulatory experience is a plus

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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