General Description:

The team of Strategy and Portfolio Management (SPM) will be responsible for setting feasible DSDI goals, planning business operations, managing DSDI’s data and digital products with focus on the long-term success and ensure the project’s goals match the GSDS and company’s vision and mission.

The SPM members will work with the head of SPM to manage a mix of interrelated, dependent, and connected products and projects within DSDI. The SPM considers the big picture of all projects grouped together-past, present and future to optimize department resources, drive communication, execution and management efficiency. The SPM group is responsible for closely following up on portfolio/program-level key progress, proactively identify major main points and recommend portfolio optimization proposal to DSDI leadership team, followed by actions led by the SPM member via cross-program/function joint efforts.

The member within SPM is responsible to oversee respective program management work and responsible for working with product manager to plan, execute and manage program progress to completion. The member is also encouraged to actively propose new ideas and lead the endorsed program as the team leader.

Essential Functions of the job:

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Organize meetings for regular program review or program priority and resource allocation review to drive the efficiency of portfolio level communication, discussion and decision making

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Support global head of DSDI and/or DSDI leadership team in portfolio management through activities to collect regular program updates, identify key bottleneck and workout feasible issue-addressing proposals and lead follow-up actions

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Support to review and recommend proposals from cross-functional teams and product managers to support sustainable growth of DSDI data and digital products

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Support to streamline and centralize usage of project management tools to manage dependencies and transparent delivery milestones for data and digital products

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Support to create processes to ensure the integrity of information disseminate to portfolio and risk management systems.

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Scope and define tasks that fulfill the project vision; manage and document scope using a project management ticketing system such as Jira, Atlassian, Smartsheet

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Support or lead communication to cross functionally to ensure understanding of department projects in DSDI teams and other cross-functional stakeholders

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Design, manage, and evangelize effective agile workflows; often using Kanban, Scrum, and Data Driven Scrum

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Provides regular updates on project status including risks sharing with potential mitigation strategies

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May support to review other departments projects for overlap, impact, and consistency

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Partners with all functional areas (e.g., R&D, pre-clinical, regulatory, safety, data management, operations, and finance) to refine and build innovative solutions

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Outcome driven product mindset to architect technical solutions for complex business problems

Supervisory Responsibilities:

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Not expected

Education and Experience Required

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Bachelors degree required

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MS or MBA preferred

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4-year degree from an accredited university in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or similar quantitative discipline required

Computer Skills:

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Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Strong communications skills, able to manage a technical data science project.

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Understanding of R, Programming languages, (Java, Python), Clinical Trials domain: Electronic Data Capture (EDC), Spotfire

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Working knowledge of databases, analytics, AI/ML, engineering, cloud systems, and the data science life cycle.

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JIRA, MS project, Smartsheet, Advance power point, MS Visio, Power BI,

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Hands-on experience in all or either of the below project management methodologies: Kanban, Scrum/Agile, Data driven Scrum

Other Qualifications:

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Works with independence to lead or support global, cross-functional matrixed teams.

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Proven ability for innovation, non-traditional and strategic thinking, proven ability to challenge the status quo and drive change in an organization

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Strong organizational, analytical, planning, and decision-making skills

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Ability to effectively manage conflicts and negotiations, and influence outcomes without direct authority

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Fluent in written and verbal English

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Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

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Experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology portfolio and project management

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Experience working in cross-functional team-oriented environments

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Understanding of the global drug development with ability to lead or support program management processes.

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Understanding of ICH and regulatory environment as it pertains to Statistics and Data Science

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Working knowledge of one or more EDC systems, SAS and R preferred

Travel:

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No significant travel expected

Education Required:

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4-year degree from an accredited university in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or similar quantitative discipline required

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MS or MBA preferred