Director Project Management Office
Toulouse, France
Responsibilities:
- In partnership with internal and client/partner technical leaders and as part of the technical team, provide project planning, execution, monitoring and reporting leadership on complex project teams and portfolio programs including operational readiness of a commercial biotherapeutics manufacturing site.
- Manage a team of project managers providing project management support to clients and operational readiness project teams
- Lead escalation and decision-making processes within project teams.
- Meeting facilitation: facilitate leadership meetings, joint steering committee meetings, on site client meetings
- Risk management: Identify project issues and facilitate resolution, conduct risk management and contingency planning including facilitation of risk assessments
- Development and sponsor of best practices and business processes initiatives: Sponsor teams in the establishment of project management best practices and tools as well as business processes to establish efficiencies to project management organization
- Provide project management leadership and expertise within CMC technical teams
Qualifications and Educational Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, biochemistry, chemical engineering or related field
- Minimum 8 years of previous project management experience in biotech, GMP manufacturing or pharmaceutical industry.
- Minimum 3 years experience managing employees
- Expertise in CMC, commercial technology transfer, GMP manufacturing and Quality Systems
- Expertise with MS Office tools, MS Project, OnePager, Smartsheet
- Excellent organizational, relationship and communication skills
- Motivation to be part of a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team
- Fluency in both French and English
Preferred Qualifications:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
- Biologics contract manufacturing organization (CMO) experience
- Proven record of implementing biopharmaceutical project management tools, methodologies, practices, and infrastructure
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ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.