Senior Manager – Accelerando Program Lead

Jobtailor; New Jersey; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in New Jersey seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex clinical development programs, align timelines, and accelerate delivery using MS Project and related tools.

You will mentor teams, drive governance, manage risks, and partner with cross-functional leaders to improve predictability and execution across global initiatives.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, Business, or related discipline is required.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, or related industries.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex clinical development programs.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, systems, and tools.
• Demonstrated expertise in MS Project.
• Proficiency with technology enabling tools including Visio, Excel, etc.
• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Experience mentoring/coaching others.
• Experience operating in matrixed global organizations and leading without authority.
• Demonstrated ability to be creative and flexible to change/improve working environment in broad context.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and manage integrated study schedules in Microsoft Project including key events, roadmaps, and critical-path visualizations.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate development timelines while maintaining quality and compliance.
• Leverage digital planning platforms, integrated timelines, predictive analytics, dashboards, and program management tools to improve predictability and execution.
• Align clinical trial timelines with integrated clinical and compound development plans.
• Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies.
• Maintain study governance documentation, After Action Review and lessons learned.
• Support governance reviews, investment decisions, and portfolio prioritization activities.
• Partner with project and compound development leadership as a trusted advisor to accelerate delivery of high-priority development programs and support strategic decision making.
• Facilitate alignment among project leaders, therapeutic area leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to address barriers, drive accountability, and enable successful program execution.
• Conduct critical path analyses and objective threat-and-opportunity assessments to identify acceleration opportunities, remove obstacles, reduce execution risk, and improve development predictability.
• Develop and evaluate strategic scenarios and business cases supporting risk mitigation investments, acceleration opportunities, and key development decisions.
• Drive implementation and adoption of project management best practices, innovative methodologies, and enabling technologies that improve development effectiveness and efficiency.
• Identify process, organizational, and cross-functional execution gaps and partner with stakeholders and line management to implement sustainable improvements that enhance program delivery.
• Support organizational readiness and change-management activities required to execute development strategies effectively across global teams.
• Establish, monitor, and communicate program performance metrics, benchmarking insights, lessons learned, and continuous improvement opportunities to project leadership and governance bodies.
• Build and leverage internal and external networks to identify emerging industry practices, benchmark performance, and promote knowledge sharing across development teams and strategic partners.
• Monitor advancements in project management, leadership practices, digital technologies, and development strategies, integrating relevant innovations to strengthen Accelerando capabilities and accelerate delivery.
• Champion the Accelerando approach and contribute to the evolution of program acceleration capabilities across the development organization.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Analytical

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, Business, or related discipline

Tools

MS Project

Visio

Excel

Job description

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and manage integrated study schedules in Microsoft Project including key events, roadmaps, and critical-path visualizations.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate development timelines while maintaining quality and compliance.
• Leverage digital planning platforms, integrated timelines, predictive analytics, dashboards, and program management tools to improve predictability and execution.
• Align clinical trial timelines with integrated clinical and compound development plans.
• Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies.
• Maintain study governance documentation, After Action Review and lessons learned.
• Support governance reviews, investment decisions, and portfolio prioritization activities.
• Partner with project and compound development leadership as a trusted advisor to accelerate delivery of high-priority development programs and support strategic decision making.
• Facilitate alignment among project leaders, therapeutic area leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to address barriers, drive accountability, and enable successful program execution.
• Conduct critical path analyses and objective threat-and-opportunity assessments to identify acceleration opportunities, remove obstacles, reduce execution risk, and improve development predictability.
• Develop and evaluate strategic scenarios and business cases supporting risk mitigation investments, acceleration opportunities, and key development decisions.
• Drive implementation and adoption of project management best practices, innovative methodologies, and enabling technologies that improve development effectiveness and efficiency.
• Identify process, organizational, and cross-functional execution gaps and partner with stakeholders and line management to implement sustainable improvements that enhance program delivery.
• Support organizational readiness and change-management activities required to execute development strategies effectively across global teams.
• Establish, monitor, and communicate program performance metrics, benchmarking insights, lessons learned, and continuous improvement opportunities to project leadership and governance bodies.
• Build and leverage internal and external networks to identify emerging industry practices, benchmark performance, and promote knowledge sharing across development teams and strategic partners.
• Monitor advancements in project management, leadership practices, digital technologies, and development strategies, integrating relevant innovations to strengthen Accelerando capabilities and accelerate delivery.
• Champion the Accelerando approach and contribute to the evolution of program acceleration capabilities across the development organization.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, Business, or related discipline is required.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, or related industries.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex clinical development programs.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, systems, and tools.
• Demonstrated expertise in MS Project.
• Proficiency with technology enabling tools including Visio, Excel, etc.
• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Experience mentoring/coaching others.
• Experience operating in matrixed global organizations and leading without authority.
• Demonstrated ability to be creative and flexible to change/improve working environment in broad context.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in managing integrated study schedules and clinical development programs while leveraging project management methodologies and tools. Capable of driving strategic decision-making and fostering collaboration across global teams to enhance program delivery and execution.