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Sr. Manager, R&D Office of Strategy Management

San Rafael, CA 94901

Posted: 07/21/2025 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Project Management Job Number: 621094 Is job remote?: Yes Country: United States

Job Description

The Sr. Manager, OSM will:
  • Manage strategic projects that support long term company strategies and R&D goals and objectives.
  • Enable and accelerate the evolution of ways of working to support better operations, scalable processes, increased SME capacity, and increased connectivity within R&D.
  • Use skills in Project Management (PM), Process Excellence & Improvement (PE/PI), Continuous Improvement (CI) and Change Management (CM) to make improvements throughout R&D.
Project Management The OSM is responsible for overseeing and supporting strategic projects across the organization. Responsibilities of the Sr. Manager include:
  • Managing strategic projects for systemic problems by supporting business case development and facilitating a cross functional team in developing and embedding the solution in the organization.
  • Apply project management, process excellence and change management methodologies for sustainable solutions with successful business adoption.
  • Managing project related tasks, maintain, and track high quality integrated project plans and dashboards for reporting and decision making.
  • Ensuring adherence to project scope, timeline, and resourcing; Managing all artifacts associated with the project lifecycle
  • Managing agendas, minutes, logistics and preparation for meetings with stakeholders
  • Developing reports, presentations, and communications for internal stakeholders, including Senior leaders
  • Handling multiple priorities in a fast-paced ambiguous environment
  • Providing guidance in change management, project management, continuous improvement and communication to business leads
  • Leveraging tools, templates and training needed for onboarding teams to successfully follow the project management, change management, continuous improvement and communication methodologies
  • Advising coordinated implementation efforts to mitigate risks, identify dependencies and ensure a positive change experience for employees
  • Developing and maintaining tools, templates and training on project management, change management, continuous improvement and communications for non-product related projects.
Internal Consulting The OSM provides internal consulting services to various departments and teams within the organization. This involves:
  • Conducting benchmarking and best practice research to innovative and diverse perspectives
  • Challenging the status quo and generating innovative ideas through a crossfunctional and enterprise lens
  • Serve as subject matter expert in project management, change management, continuous improvement and communication.
  • Develop and embed standard tools or process(es) to support organization ways of working and functional capabilities.
  • Building relationships and partnership with internal and external strategy management, project management, operational excellence and change management teams and forums.
  • Foster crossfunctional relationships where opportunities exist to reduce work, remove redundancy or enhance collaboration on similarly scoped initiatives.
Key Competencies of the OSM Core Competencies
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Influencing and Persuasion
  • Teamwork
  • Proactivity and Initiative
Technical Competencies
  • Strategic Planning
  • Performance Management/Risk Management
  • Project Management
  • Operational Excellence
  • Change Management
  • Drug Development & Discovery Knowledge
Education & Experience
  • BA or BS Degree preferred in Business, Life Sciences or Engineering 
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Industry preferred 
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in
    • Project & Program Management and/or
    • Process Excellence/Improvement or Lean-DMAIC 
  • Certification in PMP and/or Lean Six Sigma is a plus 
  • Certification in Change Management is a plus
  • Strong interpersonal skills; effective in teams and as an individual
  • Results driven; ability to propose make data driven solutions and be creative in applying new ideas or solutions
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