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Clinical Program Manager

Summit, NJ 07901

Posted: 03/27/2023 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Clinical Development and Operations Job Number: 543867-1 Is job remote?: No Country: United States

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Target Pay Rate: 70-102.06/hr **salary will be commensurate with experience 

Job Description: 

Program Management for the Translational Medicine Leader in support of the Hematology portfolio, driving the development and facilitation of the broad, integrated plans to enable the delivery of our translational medicine portfolio.

Manages complex and high profile portfolio of assets/indications, with broad including both within the corporation and with the external scientific community. Execute processes to develop holistic TM plans, manage issues and risk mitigations for the portfolio of assets managed by the TM Scientific Leader.
  • Integral partnering with Heme Disease Translational Heads to develop and evolve translational strategies and the tactical project plans to achieve the strategic goals of the team.
  • Identification, documentation and management of issues and risks, together with mitigation strategies for the portfolio of assets managed by the translational Leader, primary scope includes: Internal scientific partnerships driving biomarker sub-studies, translational R&D efforts and bioinformatics approaches to scientific evaluation of critical hypotheses, external collaborations for data acquisition, analysis and study activities, publications and presentations (internal and external), and regulatory responses and interactions.
  • Establishing communication channels and meeting agendas to drive translational portfolio delivery and documenting outcomes, decisions, and key learnings to enhance collaboration and communication.
  • Overseeing the consistency, integrity, completeness, and internal dissemination of biomarker data generation following review of results.
  • Supporting efforts to curate and integrate datasets (biomarker results, sample characteristics, clinical outcome) to facilitate analysis, e.g. via Spotfire or other data visualization capabilities.
  • Driving biomarker analysis activities, including but not limited to, facilitating data transfer specification creation in collaboration with technical leads, and coordination with both internal and external partners to support biomarker sample movement - as needed.
  • Creating visibility and maintaining transparency into collaborative activity that contributes to the translational plan for the key questions.
  • Coordinating the evaluation of proposals and ensuring delivery to appropriate collaboration team within expected timelines.
  • Elaborating and ensuring effective execution of a robust process for regular program and portfolio strategy reviews facilitated by scientific translational staff.
  • Provides scientific leadership in one or more critical areas and "chief of staff" support for key translational leader to enhance operational connectivity and forge a development path into other scientific disciplines bringing enriched operational expertise

Job Requirements: 
  • B.S., M.S., PhD in a scientific discipline; candidates with acceptable program/project management experience will be considered; PMP or equivalent experience is desirable.
  • 8+ years pharmaceutical industry experience in a variety of operational/scientific roles minimum; 5+ years' experience as a matrix leader in a highly diversified environment.
  • Experience in Translational Medicine, drug development and biomarkers.
  • Experience designing and leading complex, global projects comprised of virtual team members of diverse styles, driving to successful outcomes with and without direct management responsibilities.
  • Experience in developing and implementing processes and systems designed to simplify operational infrastructure; including experience with necessary change management skills needed to embed change.
  • Experienced in developing and implementing agile, creative solutions, utilizing.
  • Thorough understanding of biomarkers and Translational Medicine activities as well as drug development
  • Works with a sense of urgency and experience managing multiple projects, building structure from ambiguity and helping teams to develop priorities.
  • Drives effective contract/fiscal management of project activities; experienced with the development of business cases for options based decision-making and effective vendor management for externally contracted work.
  • Skilled listener with ability to manage complex internal - up, across, and down the hierarchy - and external relationships through constructive conflict management; experience with third party governance oversight desirable.
  • Negotiates an enterprise (vs. functional) perspective across the corporation.
  • Strong communicator experienced with influencing and interacting at all levels including with senior scientific, operational or external thought leaders to drive connectivity and efficiency of collaborative research.

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Planet Pharma is an equal opportunity employer. It is our practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on any criteria, condition or basis protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion enable us to better meet our mission and values while serving our clients across the globe. If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter, or contact us, so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.

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Although this hasn't been an issue at Planet Pharma, the staffing industry has seen an increase in people falsely representing themselves as recruiters to gather personal information from job seekers. For your safety, do not provide sensitive data to anyone you have not spoken with thoroughly and never provide banking information during the application process. Candidate safety is a top priority at Planet Pharma.