Director, Project and Program Management

Here at Calyx, our mission is to shape the future of clinical research. Backed by decades of diverse global experience and the brightest minds in the industry, with our industry leading technology solutions, we support the Clinical Research industry bring new, advanced medical treatments to market, faster.

At Calyx, we are one team. We learn, grow, and win together. Wherever you are in the world, by working for Calyx you will be supported by a team whose values and goals match your own and who are passionate about helping others.

Are you ready. To help us. Change the World.

Job Purpose:

The Director, Project Management is responsible for the leadership and delivery of large or complex projects and programs to support clinical, regulatory, and business users, including but not limited to new product introductions, software releases, upgrades to new or existing systems and client implementations. Accountable for the on-time delivery of project and programs with agreed budgets and deliverables. Enabling business objectives being met whilst providing overall leadership to project managers of all levels that drives high performance and skill competence.

Key Accountabilities:

Sets organisational strategy governing the direction and conduct of project management, including application of appropriate methodologies.

Authorises the management of largescale projects.

Leads project planning, scheduling, controlling, and reporting activities for strategic, high impact, high risk projects.

Manages risk and ensures that solutions to problems are implemented in line with change control processes.

Portfolio Management Leads the definition of a portfolio of programmes, projects, and/or on-going service provision.

Engages and influences senior managers to ensure the portfolio will deliver the agreed business objectives.

Plans, schedules, monitors, and reports on activities related to the portfolio to ensure that each part of the portfolio contributes to the overall achievement of the portfolio.

Collects, summarises, and reports on portfolio KPIs often through the deployment of business management processes and systems.

Identifies issues with portfolio structure, cost, risk, inter-dependencies, impact on current business activities and the strategic benefits to be realised.

Evaluates risks to the integrity of service environment inherent in proposed implementations (including availability, performance, security, and compliance of the business services impacted).

Business Risk − Carries out risk assessment within a defined functional or technical area of business.

Develops financial plans and forecasts.

Assists with the definition and operation of effective financial control and decision making, especially in the areas of service, projects and component cost models and the allocation and apportionment of all incurred IT costs.

Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.

Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.

Provides leadership and managements to a global team.

Determines, delegate and allocate management responsibilities and work across teams.

Sets performance objectives, coaching, supporting and monitors progress against agreed quality and performance criteria and local legislations/policies.

Initiates, develops, and monitors effective performance management processes.

Ensure all people related KPI’s and activities are consistently and fully achieved.

QualificationsSkills:

Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning

Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail

Ability to effectively delegate work to team members

Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment

Demonstratable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks

Builds and maintains an in-depth knowledge of Project Management practices within the life sciences industry and how they affect customers adopting our products

Knowledge and Experience:

Proven experience managing and leading mentoring colleagues

Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders

Experience of working with cloud deployment of enterprise solutions to the life sciences (Preference)

Experience of working with cloud deployment of Regulatory enterprise solutions

Understanding of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum), UML, Object Orientated, Data Modelling, Process Modelling

Experience of working in and knowledge of the life sciences and regulatory sectors

Proven working experience of project management methodologies (such as Prince2, Agile, Lean Six Sigma)

Education:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent project-related experience

English: Fluent

Related Project Management qualification

Benefits:

In return we will be able to offer you a structured career pathway and development within the role. Your hard work will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package including 25 days holiday per year, pension scheme, life assurance, long term disability insurance, a health cash plan, and other leading-edge benefits that you would expect.

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