Project Manager - Maternity Cover

Ethypharm; High Wycombe; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holiday allowance 25–30 days + BH

Bonus scheme

PrivateHealthcare

Pension

Job summary

Ethypharm in High Wycombe is seeking a Project Manager for a 15 months fixed-term contract to lead product line expansion through NPI and launch management. You will coordinate pharma launches from evaluation to launch, including NPD, in-licensing, and distribution agreements.

You will report to the Project Director and manage cross-functional teams while ensuring SOP compliance and KPI monitoring. The role requires a degree in Life Sciences and at least 5 years in pharma, with maternity-cover

Qualifications

• Educated to a degree level with Life Sciences.
• Minimum of 5 years related experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Knowledge of project mode organisation or willing to work in a transversal mode organisation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead multidisciplinary project teams with clear milestones and charters.
• Oversee project management processes and SOP adherence; monitor KPIs.
• Provide rapid and effective project reporting to key stakeholders and project teams.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Adaptability

Cross-functional

Stakeholder management

Organisational skills

Education

Degree in Life Sciences

5+ years pharma experience

Job description

Location: Jupiter House, High Wycombe (Hybrid)

Contract Type: 15 months, fixed term contract.

Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm

Right to work: Please note that Ethypharm is unable to provide sponsorship for this role. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.

What you will do

Reporting to the Project Director the role shall manage the company's products line expansion through new product introduction (NPI) and launch management. Ensure the co-ordination of the overall pharmaceutical activities of product launches from project evaluation through to product launch. This includes products from all sources including, but not limited to, new product development (NPD), business development in-licensing and product distribution agreements.

Your key responsibilities include

Process

• Co-ordinate & Lead multidisciplinary project teams:
  • Define the objectives of the project and agree key milestones and document in an agreed project charter.
  • Organize the necessary meetings for project kick-of and project follow-up.
  • Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with stakeholders, as well as other staff members.
  • Agree delegation of project tasks based on project team members' individual strengths, skill sets and experience levels.

• Project management processes:
  • Ensure that the practices of project management are implemented.
  • Ensure departmental adherence to all relevant SOP's.
  • Contribute to the implementation and monitoring of KPIs.

Customer

• Internal interface:
  • Provide rapid and effective project reporting to key stakeholders and project team members management.
• External interface:
  • Represent the company in front of clients/distributors.
  • To provide projects and environment intelligence (competitive intelligence, industry and market environment news and trends, therapeutic areas…).

Finance

• Support the Project Director on the pipeline entry of new projects, working with key departments on the project evaluation before entering the pipeline.
• Responsible for the budget of the assigned projects, monitoring the baseline, revised & actuals.

About you

You'll be an organised and approachable Project Manager who is comfortable managing several projects at once. You'll work well with people across the business, keep projects on track and deal with any issues as they arise. You'll also be able to quickly get up to speed and provide continuity throughout the maternity cover period.

Basic skills and qualifications

• Educated to a degree level with Life Sciences
• Minimum of 5 years related experience in the pharmaceutical industry
• Knowledge of project mode organisation or willing to work in a transversal mode organisation
• Skills & personal qualities:
  • Excellent communicator
  • A real team player
  • Proactive
  • Leadership
  • Attention to detail
  • Demonstrate flexibility in adjusting to a rapidly changing and high volume of work
  • Experience of working within multidiscipline teams
  • Strong communication and influencing skills

What we offer you

• Competitive salary
• Holiday - 25 days rising to 30 with length of service plus bank holidays
• Holiday Buy/Sell - an opportunity to buy or sell up to an additional 5 days' holiday
• 5% Bonus - In addition to our competitive salaries, all our employees are entitled to join a discretionary bonus scheme (based on policy eligibility)
• Bravo Benefits Platform - offering a variety of discounts across well-being and lifestyle
• Salary Sacrifice scheme for Electric vehicles with Tusker (dependent on meeting policy eligibility)
• Private Healthcare for yourself and your family (if applicable) with an additional Medicash health cash plan
• Pension Scheme