Director, Project Management (all genders)

Evote; Toulouse; Sur place; EUR 80 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading company in the biotech sector is seeking a Director of Project Management Office in Toulouse. This role involves overseeing complex project teams, ensuring operational readiness of biotherapeutics manufacturing, and managing a skilled project management team. The ideal candidate will have extensive project management experience and leadership skills, with proficiency in both French and English and a strong background in CMC and GMP manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of project management experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry.
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing employees.
• Expertise in CMC, GMP manufacturing, and Quality Systems.

Responsabilités

• Provide project planning and execution leadership on complex project teams.
• Manage a team of project managers.
• Conduct risk management and contingency planning.

Connaissances

Project Management

Risk Management

Communication

Organizational Skills

Team Leadership

Fluency in French

Fluency in English

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, biochemistry, chemical engineering

Outils

MS Office

MS Project

OnePager

Smartsheet

Description du poste

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

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.

ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.