Sr Manager, Portfolio and Program Management
About The Position
Novato Technical Services (NTS), part of Drug Substance Technologies (DST) in the Technical Development and Services (TDS) group is the technical partner for late-stage clinical and commercial operations and actively supports manufacturing processes throughout the product lifecycle. The NTS team owns the technical process for commercial products manufactured onsite and is accountable for its performance. We support production through robust process understanding, implementation of process improvement, constant monitoring of process performance, and process investigation and impact assessment when necessary. We ensure consistent high-quality supply of products to our patients and our mission is to lead the way in process science through innovation and excellence while maintaining the highest standards of quality and compliance. We are an inclusive, high-performing, highly motivated, and collaborative group looking for an innovative and passionate individual with strong business acumen and technical proficiency to become an integral part of our team. The Senior Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for driving portfolio governance, strategic alignment and execution excellence across a cross-functional organization. This role combines portfolio governance and people leadership, serving as a key partner to senior leaders. The role acts as a central point of co-ordination across functions, ensuring consistency in project management standards, transparent reporting, and continuous improvement of portfolio process.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Pharmaceutical Engineering discipline required
- 10+ years' experience in a cGMP regulated manufacturing environment, with exhibited knowledge or proficiency in a manufacturing or manufacturing support function (MSAT, process development, engineering, business ops, etc.)
- 7-10 years' experience in portfolio management, PMO, program or project management.
- Strong leadership, organizational, and management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to present and influence all levels, including executive leadership.
- Strong understanding of portfolio governance, resource management, and performance tracking.
- Advanced proficiency with portfolio and reporting tools (e.g. MS Project, Planview, PowerBI)
- Ability to influence and drive cross-functional collaboration.
Nice To Haves
- Lean Six Sigma certification is strongly recommended
- Prior people management experience is preferred
- The ability to perform gowning activities and enter the manufacturing plant is preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
- Support and execute end-to-end portfolio governance frameworks, including intake, prioritization, stage-gate process and decision forums.
- Lead and develop a team of portfolio, program and/or project management professionals
- Partner with leadership to ensure portfolio alignment with strategic objectives, funding, capacity, including risk management.
- Prepare materials and recommendations for portfolio review boards and steering committees.
- Lead components of annual and long-range portfolio planning.
- Facilitate scenarios and capacity analysis to support leadership decisions.
- Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards, KPIs, and executive level reports.
- Develop and enhance PMO processes, tools, and best practices, and implement global business processes for TDS, e.g. Technical Agenda and Consensus Yield.
- Developing detailed project plans and timelines for large scope cross-functional projects, driving execution and managing communication strategies, as needed
- Partner with data science team to develop a digital technical agenda to support TDS portfolio
- Mentor and train reports to build a team that can drive operational performance and deliver technical strategy for TDS
- Design, facilitate, and report out of workshops run for meeting business needs
- Design and execute on-site visual management and department engagement strategies
- Support organizational redesign efforts to align with TDS Portfolio centralization strategy.
- Represent TDS at governance bodies and technical network meetings.
- Facilitate portfolio reviews, steering committees, and governance meetings.
- Enable clear communication across cross functional teams and leadership.
- Other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
