Asset Project Manager

UCB Inc.; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB Inc. in Raleigh, NC is seeking an experienced Asset Project Manager to join our Integrated Program Management team.

You will manage projects end-to-end within development programs, aligning timelines, budgets, and objectives to deliver value for patients and stakeholders. You will collaborate across regulatory authorities, patient communities, and global cross-functional teams, translating roadmaps into integrated plans and ensuring timely decisions through governance and proactive risk

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific or technical discipline.
• 3+ years of hands-on project management experience in pharmaceutical R&D or biotechnology.
• 2+ years of experience leading global, multicultural cross-functional teams with complex deliverables and demanding timelines.
• 2+ years of experience supporting research, development and regulatory approval through integrated planning and execution.
• Advanced project and portfolio management tool proficiency, with strong data and digital capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder leadership, communication, critical thinking, risk, scheduling, budgeting and resource-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate operational roadmaps into integrated project plans covering scope, schedules, costs and risks.
• Drive scenario planning, impact assessment and executive governance materials supporting timely decisions.
• Manage critical paths, resources and deliverables, removing barriers to effective project execution.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, performance and transparent project status with program leadership.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration, meeting facilitation, team health, onboarding and knowledge sharing.
• Embed project-management best practices and agile ways of working across assigned projects.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional teamwork

Stakeholder leadership

Regulatory familiarity

Agile methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in science/engineering

Master's degree

Tools

Planisware

Qlik Sense

Job description

We are looking for an experienced, collaborative and strategic Asset Project Manager to join our Integrated Program Management team. This position will be based out of our offices in Raleigh, NC.

Make your mark for patients

About the role

You will manage assigned projects end-to-end within a development program, ensuring alignment with overall program objectives, timelines and budgets. Your scope may cover an indication or a significant cross-functional area, with particular partnership across regulatory authorities and patient communities. You will connect project planning, performance, execution and completion while maintaining transparent, objective decision-making and delivering value for patients and stakeholders.

Who you'll work with

You will report to the Head of Integrated Planning & Performance and work closely with the Asset Program Lead, Asset Team, Regulatory Authorities and Patient Community sub-teams and their Community Heads. You will partner across global, multicultural functions to maintain clear communication, strengthen team dynamics, share project-management best practices and support timely decisions across complex development programs.

What you'll do

• Translate operational roadmaps into integrated project plans covering scope, schedules, costs and risks.
• Drive scenario planning, impact assessment and executive governance materials supporting timely decisions.
• Manage critical paths, resources and deliverables, removing barriers to effective project execution.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, performance and transparent project status with program leadership.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration, meeting facilitation, team health, onboarding and knowledge sharing.
• Embed project-management best practices and agile ways of working across assigned projects.

Interested? For this role we're looking for the following Minimum requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific or technical discipline.
• 3+ years of hands-on project management experience in pharmaceutical research and development or biotechnology.
• 2+ years of experience leading global, multicultural cross-functional teams with complex deliverables and demanding timelines.
• 2+ years of experience supporting research, development and regulatory approval through integrated planning and execution.
• Advanced project and portfolio management tool proficiency, with strong data and digital capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder leadership, communication, critical thinking, risk, scheduling, budgeting and resource-management skills.

Preferred requirements

• Master's degree in a relevant scientific or technical discipline.
• Project management certification or qualification, including PMP, APM, PRINCE2 or agile methods.
• Clinical and regulatory development experience, particularly later-stage development and pre-launch programs.
• Expertise in regulatory affairs, health authority interactions or patient engagement.
• Experience with Planisware or Qlik Sense for project and portfolio management.
• Biopharma knowledge spanning development, regulatory science, patient engagement and healthcare ecosystems.

Salary

• The reasonably anticipated salary range for this position is $125,600 to $164,900 per year. The actual salary offered will take into account related knowledge, skills, experience and location among other factors and may fall outside the expected range.

About us

UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are over 9.000 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

Why work with us?

At UCB, we don't just complete tasks, we create value. We aren't afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equal opportunities to do their best work. We 'go beyond' to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that's on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.

At UCB, we've embraced a hybrid-first approach to work, bringing teams together in local hubs to foster collaborative curiosity. Unless explicitly stated in the description or precluded by the nature of the position, roles are hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office.

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment, your employment with UCB, or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders, and regulations.

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