Associate Director, Accelerando Program Leader
About The Position
The Associate Director, Accelerando Program Leader is accountable for accelerating the delivery of complex clinical development programs through integrated planning, proactive risk management, cross-functional orchestration, and strategic decision support. The Accelerando Program Leader identifies and protects the critical path, reduces uncertainty early, drives enterprise-level decision making, and ensures alignment between development strategy and operational execution. They will collect, consolidate, and report budget, timeline and FTE actuals vs. plan and will identify potential issues for the trial through active management of the study schedule. They enable decision making by developing scenarios that reveal potential cost, timeline, and budget impacts. They play a key role in maintaining visibility to and documentation of current plans, scenarios under consideration, and changes in direction for study level plans. They are also responsible for ensuring planning systems align with the compound development plan and the integrated project schedule.
Requirements
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, Business, or related discipline is required.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, or related industries.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex clinical development programs.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, systems, and tools.
- Demonstrated expertise in MS Project.
- Proficiency with technology enabling tools including Visio, Excel, etc.
- Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Experience mentoring/coaching others.
- Experience operating in matrixed global organizations and leading without authority.
- Demonstrated ability to be creative and flexible to change/improve working environment in broad context.
Nice To Haves
- Professional project management certification (i.e., PMP, CPM, etc.)
- Hands on experience in Planisware
Responsibilities
- Create, maintain, and manage integrated study schedules in Microsoft Project including key events, roadmaps, and critical-path visualizations.
- Identify opportunities to accelerate development timelines while maintaining quality and compliance.
- Leverage digital planning platforms, integrated timelines, predictive analytics, dashboards, and program management tools to improve predictability and execution.
- Align clinical trial timelines with integrated clinical and compound development plans.
- Develop budget, timeline, and FTE forecasts; create scenario analyses in Planisware to support decision-making.
- Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies.
- Collect, consolidate, and report financial, timeline, and resource metrics for governance reviews and external funding partnerships.
- Maintain study governance documentation, After Action Review and lessons learned.
- Support governance reviews, investment decisions, and portfolio prioritization activities.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- short and long-term disability
- business accident insurance
- group legal insurance
- consolidated retirement plan (pension)
- savings plan (401(k))
- long-term incentive program
- Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – 56 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
- Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
- Caregiver Leave – 10 days
- Volunteer Leave – 4 days
- Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours
- Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
- Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
- Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
- Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
- Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
