R&D Project Manager

CEVA Logistics; Paulínia; On-site; BRL 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Ceva Santé Animale recherche un R&D Project Manager pour structurer et conduire des projets de développement, de la conception à la mise sur le marché, en étroite collaboration avec les équipes scientifiques et réglementaires.

Vous assurez le pilotage budgétaire, le reporting et les décisions autonomes dans les seuils établis, tout en favorisant l'amélioration continue et l'utilisation d'outils numériques et IA pour le forecasting et le planning.

Qualifications

• Advanced scientific degree in life sciences or veterinary sciences.
• PMP/PMI or equivalent certification.
• Proven PM track record with agile and waterfall methods.
• Experience presenting to governance bodies.

Responsibilities

• Make and own project decisions within defined authority thresholds and elevate to governance with a ready-to-decide solution and its trade-off.
• Understand and champion Ceva's strategic, competitive and customer context to explain why the developed product matters and connect decisions to portfolio value.
• Demonstrate foresight across the entire project lifecycle, from development through commercialization.
• Communicate project status and recommend trade-off decisions directly at governance forums and within project team.
• Build, lead and develop the cross-functional project team; delegate ownership of workstreams and support team growth.
• Drive continuous improvement, adaptability and change: challenge existing practices and turn learnings into standards.

Skills

PMP / PMI

Project management

Digital/AI PM tools

GMP/GLP/GCP knowledge

Advanced English

Scientific expertise

Education

PhD in life sciences or veterinary sciences

Master’s with substantial equivalents

Tools

Smartsheets

Job description

R&D Project Manager

Lesuccès d'une entreprise passe avant tout par les hommes et femmes qui lacomposent...

Ensemble, partageons nos talents.
Ceva Santé Animale est la 1ère entreprise de santé animale française, etest classée au 5ème rang mondial.
Ensemble, c'est avec passion que les femmes et les hommes de Cevarecherchent, développent, produisent et commercialisent des solutions desanté innovantes pour soigner tous les animaux, et ainsi contribuer à lapréservation des grands équilibres de notre planète.
Nous nous engageons à assurer le meilleur niveau de soins et de bien-êtrepossible aux animaux d’élevage (volailles, porcs, ruminants), aux animaux decompagnie (chiens et chats) et à la faune sauvage.
En effet, notre vision « Ensemble, au-delà de la santé animale » met enavant le lien étroit qui existe entre la santé et le bien-être des personnes,des animaux et de notre planète. Ceva est plus que jamais engagé dans uneapproche « One Health », une seule santé en français.

Dans le cadre de notre politique "Diversité, équité et inclusion", Ceva Santé Animale s'engage en faveur de l'emploi des personnes en situation de handicap et déploie les moyens nécessaires au bon déroulement des entretiens de recrutement. N'hésitez pas à nous solliciter.

Vos missions :

• Make and own project decisions within defined authority thresholds and elevate to governance (ISC / SPOC / ComEx) with a ready-to-decide solution and its trade-off whenever those thresholds are exceeded.
• Understand and champion Ceva's strategic, competitive and customer context to explain why the developed product matters (competitor differentiation, customer convenience…), anticipate its business impact, and connect decisions to product range and portfolio value and evolution (vaccination schemes…). Act as a source of proposals on these matters.
• Demonstrate foresight across the entire project lifecycle, from development through commercialization, ensuring alignment with market needs and business objectives.
• Communicate in a clear, concise, logical transparent and timely manner to foster understanding and enable decision making. Communicate project status and recommend trade-off decisions directly and credibly at governance forums (ISC, SPOC, and ComEx when relevant) and within project team. Adapt communication and leadership style to the audience.
• Build, lead and develop the cross-functional project team; delegate real ownership of workstreams and actively support team members' growth. Participate to objective setting and assessment of project team members.
• Drive continuous improvement, adaptability and change: challenge existing practices, foster a test-and-learn mindset for innovation and turn learnings into standards reused beyond the project.

Project Management

• Structure and own the project plan (scope, WBS, sequencing, critical path, timeline, scorecard, KPI…) and keep it current in the corporate PM tool.
• Proactively manage risks, opportunities, issues and changes; anticipate deviations and propose corrective action and their trade-offs before being asked.
• Champion the use of digital and AI-enabled tools to strengthen forecasting, planning and reporting, and to reduce manual effort.
• Understand, track budget and forecast, manage variance against the business case, and integrate financial and operational trade-offs into project decisions.
• Structure and own project documentation and updates, resource management, timeline estimation and reporting.
• Show a complete project ownership and scientific understanding of all aspects of the project.

Scientific and Product Development expertise

• Bring genuine, credentialed scientific expertise to the project (e.g. disease knowledge, microbiology, immunology, CMC or another domain relevant to the project) to independently challenge technical rationale and interpret study data.
• Conduct a regular scientific watch on internal and external advances.
• Curate an external network of expertise in the scientific area involved.
• Master the end-to-end product development lifecycle and anticipate cross-functional dependencies (regulatory, quality, manufacturing, commercial) before they are raised by others and propose solutions with related probability of success.
• Integrate regulatory, quality and IP/marketconsiderations into project planning, risk anticipation and prioritization, ensuring strict adherence to compliance and ethical standards throughout the development lifecycle.

Votre profil :

• Advanced scientific degree in alife sciences, veterinary sciences or related field (PhD or post-doctoralexperience strongly preferred; a Master's degree with substantial equivalentscientific expertise may be considered).
• PMP / PMI or equivalent project management certification
• Genuine scientific/technicalexpertise in the relevant domain (e.g. disease knowledge, microbiology,immunology, CMC), evidenced by an advanced degree, publications, patents or arecognized R&D expert track record.
• Proven project management track record, applying standard PM tools andmethodologies (agile and waterfall) rigorously.
• Business acumen
• Experience presenting to governance bodies and making and owning autonomousdecisions within defined thresholds.
• Comfortable with digital and AI-enabled PM tools and data-driven reporting(experience with Smartsheets specific PM tool a plus)
• Knowledge of GMP/GLP/GCP and the regulatory framework for biological orpharmaceutical products.
• Advanced English.