For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Job Summary
We are seeking a
Director of
Global Project Management for our
CDMO and Cell and Gene Therapy Team.
The principle role of the
Director is to manage daily operations for the Charles River Global Biologics project management department.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities Include
- Coaches and mentors Global CDMO and Cell and Gene Therapy project management teams.
- Monitors performance of direct reports. Prepares and delivers salary and performance reviews; reviews and approves performance and salary appraisals initiated by direct reports.
- Responsible for the management of Global CDMO and Cell and Gene Therapy PM resource allocation and Global PM assignments.
- Develop short- and long-range operating objectives, organizational structure, staffing requirements and succession plans. Organizational structure should be focused on the client perspective of how they want to work with us and include collaboration of PMs across sites where necessary.
- Provided regularly scheduled metric status reports.
- Provides oversight to the methodology and tool kit used by the Global CDMO and Cell and Gene Therapy PM team.
- Assists in the development and communication of departmental policies and procedures.
- Identifies training and development needs of direct reports. Provides training and/ or monitor training programs to ensure ongoing effectiveness. Defines career path opportunities.
- Collaborates with operational business management in opportunities to implement lessons learned, tools, or processes to aid in the overall drive toward performance improvement in managing CRL employees.
- Be a change management advocate
- Assists in the development and recommendation of departmental budget. Authorizes expenditure in accordance with budget. Approves budget and expenses of subordinates.
- Ability to communicate to CRL business units the value-add that project management brings to client engagement.
- Assists in the analysis and evaluation of client needs to define project management service
support requirements.
- Application of the latest technology with the project management team to ensure a state-of-the-art customer experience
- Works closely with sales and client services management to build relationships between the groups to facilitate a more cohesive client experience
- Ensures harmonization of procedures across the global Project Management group.
- Defines and manages the CDMO and PM escalation process and participates in client complaint resolution as necessary.
- Provides summary of key accounts to senior management.
- Supports management’s goals, objectives, and initiatives.
Job Qualifications
The following are the minimum qualifications and requirements related to the
Director position.
EDUCATION
- Master’s degree in related scientific discipline or Business Administration (MBA) required.
- PMP or equivalent Required
Experience
- Minimum of 8 years of management experience in life science, pharmaceutical, healthcare, CDMO, Cell and Gene Therapy or research environments.
- Minimum of 10 years of project/program/PMO management experience.
Note: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
Compensation Data
The pay range for this position is $175,000 to $185,000. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and location.
About Cognate BioServices
Cognate BioServices, Inc., a Charles River Company, is the premier commercial-ready CDMO for cell and gene therapy needs. We are a dynamic, results-driven organization focused on providing the broadest range of expertise across the various cell types and technologies used in the commercialization of cell & gene therapies for regenerative medicine, cellular immunotherapy, and advanced cell therapy companies, organizations, and institutions.
We offer a unique combination of standard and custom services to companies across all points of clinical and commercial development. Our development and manufacturing services are focused on clients seeking rapid development of products from clinical studies into commercial manufacturing, with a unique capacity to handle all aspects of scale-up and commercial readiness.
Cognate leverages the combined know-how and expertise of its business, scientific, and technical teams to successfully develop and manufacture autologous and allogenic products across multiple cell-based technology platforms from start to finish, for you and your patients.
For more information, visit www.cognatebioservices.com
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
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