Associate Director Program Management Logistics & Safety
Hyderabad, India Additional Locations: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India; SAS Nagar (Mohali), Punjab, India; Job ID R0000023374 Category Project Leadership Date Posted 06/04/2024Overview
As a part of the global Project Leadership group at Parexel, you are responsible for leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality and patient-focused clinical trials and help bring life-changing treatments to market faster. You collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to identify project requirements, develop project plans, and manage project timelines and budgets. The role requires strong leadership and communication skills, the ability to work under pressure, and a passion for improving patients' lives.
In return, Parexel offers a supportive work environment, and a high degree of empowerment and accountability to lead your studies. Within this role, you work with a diverse set of clients and therapeutic areas, and you are encouraged to take on new challenges and pursue your interests.
Success Profile
Do you have these soft skills and interpersonal traits to succeed at Parexel?
- Adaptable
- Communicator
- Collaborative
- Leadership
- Proactive
- Problem-solver
About This Role
General areas of responsibility include: developing and facilitating strategic initiatives and process optimization initiatives (Lean Six Sigma), creation and updating project plans/work plans, milestone planning and identification/management of critical path; input on resource planning; ongoing liaison and partnering with project/ initiative teams; dependency and risk/issue identification and tracking with appropriate escalation; ensuring timely completion of actions; production of key progress reports; tracking and support assimilation of savings/benefit realization and KPI data; support the planning and coordination of change management, training, process and system communications and other deployment activities; preparation and presentation of materials for internal meetings; management of communication between internal stakeholders.
Team Management
- Directly supervises small team of Program Manager(s) (if overall setup allows).
- Works closely with Corporate OED team to ensure compliance with provided standards and governance.
- Works closely with the VP PMO Safety & Logistics.
- Works closely with the Safety & Logistics Leadership Teams including functions (notably HR and Finance).
Strategic Initiative Support & Strategy Development
- Partner with key stakeholders to identify, initiate, scope, execute and sustain strategically aligned initiatives.
- Identify cross functional process impacts and interconnections across Safety and CTS&L wherever feasible and drive optimization.
- Develop and implement effective plans for new processes or upgrades that ensure the end users have the required capability to succeed.
- Ensures regular impact reporting across all ongoing and implemented initiatives and drives follow-up/ corrective actions.
- Ensure change management is appropriately implemented.
- Support the development process of mid- and long-term business unit strategies and related business cases.
Continuous Improvement
- Develops and maintains the Process Optimization strategy for Parexel Safety and CTS&L Businesses.
- Develops and leads process optimization initiatives across CTS&L and Safety in close collaboration with the business and process SMEs.
- Facilitates workshops (on-site and virtually) and ensures delivery of initiatives in time and on budget.
- Acts as a subject matter expert and is instrumental in promoting culture change by sharing Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and other continuous improvement best practices.
- Provides consulting services to Safety and CTS&L Business Partners along the full lifecycle of respective initiatives (from ideation to controlling).
Skills:
- Demonstrated ability to drive tactical execution while thinking cross-functionally and strategically.
- Strategic mindset with strong change management capability, provide clarity and priority among multiple priorities.
- Strong program and project management.
- Advanced experience in application of process improvement tools and methodologies, specifically Lean Six Sigma.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to make sense and pull together complex issues quickly, simplifying these issues into executable actions.
- A general understanding in BPM and how to model and manage cross-functional process impacts.
- Comfortable leading and managing through ambiguity and uncertainty with the ability to facilitate virtual and face to face workshops to drive improvements.
- Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries and geographies.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to organize and present information concisely to a variety of audiences; fluent English (writing and speaking).
- Comfortable mentoring and teaching others in organization.
- A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning.
- Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.
- Willingness to work in a matrix environment and value the importance of teamwork.
- Proven ability to work in remote project and team setups.
Knowledge and Experience:
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Management Consulting or comparable background.
- Proven track record of managing complex projects across multiple stakeholders.
- Experience in process modeling, financial modeling and developing quantifiable business cases.
- Understanding of Clinical Supply Chain and/ or Pharmacovigilance business Education.
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s Science degree is required, Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Industrial-Organizational Psychology or similar is preferred.
- Lean Six Sigma certification.
- PMP certification
Potential Career Path
Parexel offers a growth path with diverse therapeutic areas and clients, so you can grow according to your interests.
- Associate Project Leader
- Project Leader
- Senior Project Leader
- Associate Project Director
- Project Director
- Director, Project Leadership
- Senior Director, Project Leadership
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