Senior Manager Resource Management

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

1d • $134,400 - $219,200

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Resource Management partners with functional resource liaisons in Research and Preclinical Development (RpD) and Translational Medicine to assess workload, capacity, and resource information; plan and allocate resources; identify potential gaps; and propose solutions. The role requires an in-depth understanding of pharmaceutical discovery and development, preclinical development, research, and early-development functions, including their roles, responsibilities, and work effort. The manager uses industry-standard resource-management and reporting tools to plan and manage capacity, and works with other Global Development Resource Managers to promote consistent resource management, workforce planning, and harmonized business processes. The role promotes adherence to resource-management processes and supports high-quality resource planning, capacity management, tracking, and forecasting, as well as documentation of best practices and business processes.

The position serves as a primary interface between Resource Management and partner functions, maintaining resource data and delivering reports and analyses to support planning and decisions. It collaborates with Finance, data analytics, IT, functional leaders, and other resource managers to ensure accurate forecasts, resolve resource conflicts, and develop and maintain processes, guidelines, templates, dashboards, and metrics. The role is based in Tarrytown, New York, with Cambridge, Massachusetts listed as an additional location; the posting notes that many roles are performed on-site, but does not specify this role’s onsite expectation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science, finance, or engineering.
• Experience in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or CRO industry.
• Ability to manage limited resource supply against a constantly changing portfolio.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and manage multiple priorities in a highly matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to build internal and external relationships with supervisors, peers, partners, and stakeholders.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite and resource-management tools or systems.
• Detail-oriented and able to work independently.

Nice To Haves

• Flexible and adaptable, with a refined ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Self-starter who demonstrates initiative and the ability and behaviors to drive business forward and obtain results by proactively engaging stakeholders across functions.
• Experience implementing resource-management processes and using Planisware for resource management and Tableau reporting in a drug-development business.
• Experience within or across drug-development functions such as Clinical Operations, Project or Program Management, strategic resource and capacity planning, Business Analysis, or Finance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the interface and point of contact between Resource Management and RpD and Translational Medicine for reviewing functional resource strategies, assessing available resources against requirements, and confirming resource plans with functional leadership.
• Work with partner functions to verify that study, project, and program assumptions are current and resource utilization is optimized.
• Partner with applicable functions to design, develop, implement, and update algorithms used in resource-demand forecasts.
• Coordinate with resource managers for other functional areas to promote cross-functional consistency in resource and headcount management and reporting.
• Deliver regular and ad hoc resource reports, including forecasted demand, capacity, gap analyses, and planned versus actual FTEs.
• Enter, maintain, and monitor partner-function capacity, allocation, and forecast data in the resource-management system or tool, ensuring accurate records.
• Identify and communicate resource gaps, issues, and risks; support reviews and discussions to resolve resource or capacity conflicts.
• Collaborate with business partners to deliver, maintain, and update resource-management processes, guidelines, and templates.
• Work with data analytics and IT to provide business requirements and subject-matter input for dashboards and metrics, validate outputs, and identify and implement reports as needed.
• Perform program- and function-level scenario analyses to model how changes in assumptions or timelines affect resource needs; support the Director on portfolio-level scenarios.
• Ensure data quality for quarterly budget reforecasts for assigned functions, coordinating with Finance and the Director.
• Assist in documenting resource-management best practices and business processes.

Benefits

• Competitive and comprehensive total rewards package, which may include annual bonuses or other incentive plans, equity awards, pension or retirement benefits, 401(k) company match, health and wellness programs, fitness centers, medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid time off, and family support benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior