Senior Manager Resource Management

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc; Cambourne; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc seeks a Senior Manager, Resource Management to partner with RpD and Translational Medicine to assess capacity and plan resource allocation. You will analyze demand, optimize utilization, and develop forecasts with cross-functional leaders to support portfolio decisions.

The role requires a science/engineering background, experience in biotech/pharma, and strong analytics, communication and leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science, finance or engineering.
• Experience in Biotech/Pharmaceutical/CRO industry.
• Adept at managing a limited supply of resources against constantly changing needs.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and manage multiple priorities in a matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Effective communication, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and ability to build relationships.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite and resource management tools.
• Detail oriented and capable of working independently.

Responsibilities

• Interfaces RM with RpD and Translational Medicine to review resource strategies.
• Assess available resources against requirements and confirm plans with leadership.
• Design, develop, and update algorithms for resource demand forecasts.
• Ensure cross-functional consistency for resource and headcount management.
• Deliver regular and ad-hoc resource reports including forecasts and capacity analyses.
• Enter and monitor resource capacity, allocation and forecast data in RM systems.
• Identify and communicate resource gaps, risks, and conflicts to stakeholders.
• Collaborate to maintain RM processes, guidelines and templates.
• Work with data analytics/IT on dashboards and reports and validate outputs.
• Perform scenario analyses and support portfolio-level planning.
• Ensure data quality for quarterly budget reforecasts with Finance.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Leadership

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in science, finance, or engineering

Tools

Planisware

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Build our future together:

Senior Manager, Resource Management (RM) partners with multiple functions in Research and Preclinical Development (RpD) functional resource liaisons to assess capacity, workload and resource information, to proactively plan and allocate resources, identify potential resource gaps and propose solutions. To be successful, the RM will need to have an in-depth understanding of pharmaceutical development, pharmaceutical discovery, pre-clinical development, research and early development functional roles, responsibilities and work effort. The manager will be experienced in using industry standard resource management tools and respective reporting tools to help plan and manage resource capacity. The RM will work with other Global Development Resource Managers to ensure cross-functional consistency.to ensure cross-functional consistency for resource management and workforce planning and harmonized business processes. The RM will promote the adhearance to RM processes and the delivery of high quality resource planning, capacity management, tracking, and forecasting of functional. The RM will assist in the documentation of best pracices and business processes.

When & where:

• Primary Location: Tarrytown, NY
• Additional Locations: Cambridge, MA

Discover your role:

Essential Functions required for the job. List both technical and managerial requirements if applicable.

• Serves as an interface and point of contact between Resource Management (RM) and RpD and Translational Medicine functions for the review and assesment of functional resource strategies including the assessment of available resources against requirements and confirmation of resource plans with functional leadership.
• Works with partner functions to verify that study, project, and program assumptions are current and ensures resource utilization is optimized
• Partners with applicable functions to design, develop, implement, and update algorithms used in resource demand forecasts
• Works with other RMs assigned to other functional areas to ensure cross-functional consistency for resource and headcount management and reporting.
• Delivers regular and ad-hoc resource reports, including forecasted resource demand, capacity, gap analyses, and FTE planned vs. actuals
• Enters, maintains, and monitors resource capacity, resource allocation and resource forecast data for applicable partner functions and ensures accurate reflection in the resource management system/tool
• Proactively identifies and communicates resource related gaps, issues and risks to partner functions based on analysis of resource data. Supports review and discussion to resolve resource and/or capacity conflicts
• Collaborates with business partners to deliver, maintain and update RM processes, guidelines, and templates to ensure business needs are addressed.
• Works with data analytics and IT to provide business requirements and subject-matter input on dashboards and metrics, validate outputs, and identify and implement new reports as needed.
• Performs program- and function-level scenario analyses, modeling the impact of changes in assumptions or timelines on resource needs, and supports the Director on portfolio-level scenarios.
• Ensures data quality for the quarterly budget reforecast for assigned functions, coordinating with Finance and the Director.

This role requires:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, finance, or engineering
• Experience in Biotech/Pharmaceutical/CRO industry
• Adept at managing a limited  supply of resources against  constantly  change
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and manage multiple priorities in a highly matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
• Effective communication (clear and concise written and verbal skills), influencing, and negotiating skills
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, ability to build relationships internally and externally (eg with supervisors, peers, partners and stakeholders)
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite and Resource Management Tools / Systems
• Detail oriented and capable of working independently

Preferred Qualifications

• Flexible and adaptable and a refined ability to deal with ambiguity
• A self starter that demonstrates initiative as well as the abilities and behaviors to drive business forward and obtains results by proactively engaging with stakeholders across functions
• Experience implementing RM processes and Resource Management in Planisware and respective reporting in a drug development business in Tableau
• Has worked within or across various drug development functions that may include but are not required: Clinical Operations; Project / Program Management; Strategic resource and capacity planning; Business Analyst; Finance.