Associate Director, Project Management

**Position Description**

**Job Title**:Associate Director, Project Management
- Product Development Center (PDC)
**Location**: Cape Town, or Remote in South Africa
**Reports to**: Senior Director & Head of Tuberculosis Program Management

**Position Summary**:
The Associate Director, Project Management provides end-to-end project management leadership to internal cross-functional teams, external organizations, and investigators in infectious disease projects. The central focus of this leadership role is to expeditiously advance vaccines and therapeutics from concept stage and/or pre-clinical stage to clinical development, culminating in licensure of the vaccine or therapeutic.

The Associate Director, Project Management will provide end-to-end project management leadership for internal cross-functional teams, external organizations, and investigators for infectious disease projects. The Associate Director will focus on expeditiously advancing vaccines and therapeutics from concept stage and/or pre-clinical stage to clinical development, in an effort to bring new vaccines and/or therapeutics to market.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with the scientific project leaders to develop an integrated project plan.
- Lead task order projects and/or internal projects to ensure on time delivery with a high level of stakeholder engagement and communication.
- Assist in the development of vaccine/therapeutics, in collaboration with another PM (Director or above), the scientific leader and internal and external cross-functional teams.
- Lead and facilitate cross-functional team communications and project meetings with internal and external stakeholders with respect to project/product strategy, tactics, key performance indicators, budget, deadlines, deliverables, constraints, and risks.
- Drive and synergize cross-functional collaboration to achieve project milestones as defined by the baseline plan.
- Routinely generate score cards using metrics such as key performance indicators (**KPI’s**) to analyze, measure project performance, derive lessons learnt with a sharp focus on continuous improvement of project metrics.
- Provide project status reporting (progress, budget, issues) with internal, external stakeholders, and funders, as well as prepare status reports as required for each funder/stakeholder group (e.g., monthly, quarterly, annually).
- Support best project management practices in a fast project/product development environment including continuous improvement.

**Education and Work Experience**:

- Bachelor's degree in Project Management and/or Life Sciences or related degree is required. Master's degree is preferred.
- Minimum 8 years of biopharmaceuticals (vaccines or biologics or therapeutics) experience in product development and/or project management is required.
- Project Management Professional certification is highly desirable.

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Demonstrated leadership experience, including experience influencing, engaging, and coordinating cross-functional teams of scientists, clinicians, executives, and funders is required.
- Excellent organizational, written, verbal, and presentation skills are required.
- Excellent judgment skills with the ability to present programs to scientific and non-scientific stakeholders.
- Results-driven, focused, and detail oriented.
- Strong negotiation experience are required.
- Proficient in MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and MS Project is required. Smart Sheet proficiency is desirable.
- Knowledge of GXPs, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs associated with biopharmaceutical development is highly desirable.
- Experience with international projects is highly desirable.