Sr. CMC, Global Project Manager

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Title: Sr. CMC, Global Project Manager Company: Ipsen Pharma (SAS) About Ipsen: Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience, with global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K, we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation. Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries. We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration, excellence and impact. At Ipsen, every individual is empowered to be their true selves, grow and thrive alongside the company’s success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society! For more information, visit us at https://www.ipsen.com/ and follow our latest news on LinkedIn and Instagram. Job Description: WHAT - Summary & Purpose of the Position All Ipsen’s assets are managed through a fully integrated Asset Team focused on maximizing patient value and the success of the asset in all aspects across its entire lifecycle. The main mission of the Senior CMC Global Project Manager (GPM) is to work in collaboration with the CMC Lead, the Asset Operations Lead (AOL), and the Asset Team (AT) to develop, implement and manage strategic CMC roadmap by driving the cross functional CMC Subteam. The Senior CMC GPM closely partners with the CMC Lead to serve as the central point of contact for the CMC Subteam members and when necessary, serves as deputy for CMC Lead. A CMC GPM may support multiple assets. The secondary mission of the Senior CMC GPM is to support transversal projects/initiatives within GPO, with the aim of improving operational efficiencies across Asset Operations, CMC and GPO teams’ scope of responsibilities. The Senior CMC Global Project Manager is responsible for the creation, maintenance and execution of the operational CMC plans to enable the successful CMC delivery of the project. They ensure that all steps of the CMC project plan are anticipated, planned, coordinated and followed up to deliver in the most efficient process. They are responsible for providing guidance, instruction, and leadership skills to develop optimal CMC roadmap on each asset and to inspire the team to perform at their optimum. They monitor and track its associated budgets (internal and external costs) and support resource management against agreed strategic objectives for the program. There are responsible for ensuring consistent communication between project CMC functions and for ensuring key issues are escalated to management in due time and with a mitigation plan. The Senior CMC GPM also ensures that a consistent project risk management methodology is applied at the Asset Team and CMC Subteam level to proactively identify project risks and opportunities together with contingencies and to use learning and experience from current, previous projects, competitor benchmarking and from the network of Global Project Managers to support successful delivery (knowledge management). A CMC Subteam is defined as a cross functional team accountable for concrete deliverables such as IMP and IND/NDA or could be all activities related to the development of the asset in one indication / population (clinical development, CMC, regulatory, industrial and commercial). WHAT - Main Responsibilities & Technical Competencies Project Operational Leadership Serve as the central operational point of contact for CMC, project subteams and Asset Team members Work in partnership with the CMC Lead, Functions reps to create and maintain asset CMC roadmap from overall asset strategy execution Create a climate that fosters personal investment and excellence and nurtures commitment to common goals Facilitate the process for evaluation of alternative development options at the CMC and project levels to deliver programs Facilitate win/win solutions for program/team conflicts with big picture in mind. Promote ideas persuasively and build on the ideas of others Project Management Create and maintain CMC Project Plan across functional lines, capturing interdependencies between all functions and deliverables, to be updated at least once a month, highlighting critical path and upcoming deliverables, and aligned with the Global Asset Plan Partner with CMC Lead and functional reps to ‘pressure-test’ assumptions and integrate function planning to support the CMC project plans Create and maintain the asset CMC Assumptions slide as a key input to the project plan, scenario planning, risk analysis and budget Define the interdependent CMC subteam deliverables aligned with Global Asset Plan and ensure that quality, risk, cost, time are managed to drive delivery of asset roadmap milestones and objectives on time and on budget Validate the technical integrity of the CMC project plans ensuring that the technical data is reviewed and discussed at the CMC subteam meeting for appropriate decision making/recommendation to the Asset Team on follow-up actions Update full-scale CMC project plans, timelines, budgets and milestones regularly in the appropriate tool to ensure data for metrics reporting is accurate Drives with the CMC Lead milestone decision point planning, execution of CMC plan and associated deliverables across functions to achieve the overall asset objectives. Implement and drive cross-functional monthly CMC operational meeting to closely and proactively monitor the execution of plans, measures result, update and align key planning assumptions with corresponding timing, risks, resources, and budget impacts and communicate deviations/discrepancies to AOL, specifically focusing on:Deliverables on time / at risk Key milestones Budget / Resource Contingencies Resource constraints if required. Issues and correct deviation to ensure successful project delivery Clearly define the critical path and generate clear decision criteria for the project Ensure decisions and actions are tracked in due time Perform oversight of all activities and associated deliverables under the accountability of the CMC subteams Demonstrate an appropriate level of technical understanding of the various functions to ensure effective cross-functional communication Responsible for ensuring that all the projects CMC functions deliver with precise execution, quality, on time and within budgets Proactively manage changes in project scope, anticipating potential problems (potential resource bottlenecks, risks to critical milestones, inefficient processes, and resource variance) and proactively develops and seeks approval for risk mitigation plans Responsible for supporting functional leads in vendor selection and management as required Comply with all laws, regulations and policies that govern the conduct of IPSEN activities. Always follow IPSEN policies, procedures and processes (including Global R&D Operation ones, such as governance process) Actively adhere to a Quality Management System (QMS) that supports GxPs and Regulatory requirements and satisfy all internal quality and external regulatory authority expectations Ensure project / workstream deliverables are managed to enable completion on time and according to required scope and budget, while applying the best practices and tools of an efficient PMO Risk Management Apply a consistent and comprehensive risk management methodology that proactively identifies CMC risks and opportunities together with developing and delivering appropriate contingencies and/or corrective actions to support the team in development of solutions to project conflicts and issues Apply a deep understanding of risk management methodology in using risk to communicate effectively with Governance bodies and underpin project strategy and delivery. 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