Project Manager

What are we looking for in our Project Manager ?

Exciting Career Opportunity for Project Manager in Dublin 4! 🔬

Russell Tobin is thrilled to collaborate with a prominent global pharmaceutical company reimagining medicine to improve patient and staff well-being.

We're seeking a Project Manager to provide crucial support to Medical Affairs Clients. The position involves supporting one or more business units, particularly in managing the financial elements of their operations or projects. This will involve a lot of spend analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and purchase orders.

This is a 06 month contract.

Major Accountabilities:

• Key brand project management support as agreed with Client (e.g.; creating project registers and dashboards, identifying and prioritising high impact projects, meeting facilitation)
• Define criteria for key projects and support E2E management of priority projects, providing regular status updates to key stakeholders
• Work closely with Medical Affairs stakeholders to support planning, tracking and reporting of other medical affairs activities (progress updates, timelines, budgets and monthly reporting) for assigned franchise, function or brand:
  • Support Business Owners (e.g. medical directors) in the preparation of annual budget through the consolidation and validation of budget submissions for the assigned portfolio budget reviews
  • Ensure budget and other official financial submissions (e.g. LF1, LF2) are in line with Finance targets and timelines
  • Monitor progress of activities;
  • Support review of vendor proposal, challenge proposals as appropriate;
  • Oversee PO management process.
• Coordinate, review and track approvals of activities;
  • Collate relevant Medical Affairs governance submissions from Business Owners based on budgeted phasing of activity and regular monthly interaction
  • Validate governance submissions against benchmarking checklist, resolve data gaps and challenge fit against budget;
  • Project manage post implementation of budget approvals (e.g. PO opening, contracts signed).
• Lead innovation by identifying areas for process or technology improvements and participate in continuous improvement initiatives by evaluating, implementing and providing operational guidance on new digital tools. Champion the implementation of operational changes and transitions as required
• Become Subject Matter Expert in an operational area where appropriate (e.g. Procurement Process)
• Validate actual spend and provide accurate forecasting of other medical budgets against project plans
• Highlight timelines/budget deviations or operational issues and communicate to relevant stakeholders in a timely fashion.
• Implement, coordinate and maintain reporting with agreed metrics where appropriate, value add commentary and analysis for medical and financial stakeholders e.g. Operational & financial metrics report
• Support large-scale change projects. E.g. process improvements, financial and other system and platform implementations and management
• Act as a point of contact for all external other medical project queries (e.g. PO issues and rebooking, compliance to controls and governance)

Responsibilities:

• Set within the medical project operations team.
• Provide support to internal business units in Ireland, Switzerland, and the US, primarily focusing on spend and budgets.
• Organize events within business units, involving forecasted spend, tracking of purchase orders, invoices, and spend versus forecast.

Key Requirements:

• Budget management and forecasting experience.
• Ability to analyze data and produce actionable insights.
• Strong project management and operations skill sets.
• Good financial understanding - Budgets/PO's/Expense tracking/compliance
• Multinational background is a plus
• Proficient in managing stakeholders within a large complex organization.
• Strong project management skills and proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience is a plus

Ideal Background

Education (minimum/desirable):

Languages:

What’s Offered:

• 06-month contract with possible extension
• Day rate up to €450 (depending on experience).
• Hybrid work model (3 days per week in Dublin 4 office).
• Opportunity to work with a leading global pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving patients' futures.

Interested?

Please click on APPLY today.

Rate/Salary: 450 per day