Position Title: Director, Medical Project Management
Work Location: Mettawa, IL 60045
Assignment Duration: 6 months with option to extend
Work Arrangement: Hybrid Onsite (Tue-Thu)

Position Summary:
The Medical Affairs Project Management (PM) team focuses on driving performance through learning, technology, and the practice of innovation.
The Associate Director Project Management serves as both a primary point of contact and strategic partner for TA leadership. The scope of this role is global, supporting multiple Therapeutic areas (TAs) at a programmatic level (i.e. multiple related TAs).

Key Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Partnership & Leadership • Acts as a thought partner to the VP on HEOR priorities and enterprise leadership commitments. • Creates priorities with clarity and focus. • Serves as a delegate in meetings when needed.
2. Strategic Initiative Management • Lead end-to-end project management for HEOR’s strategic initiatives (e.g., functional planning, launch readiness, qtrly ev gen reviews, etc). • Develop clear charters, milestones, success metrics, and governance for key initiatives. • Drive execution discipline with team ensuring timelines, deliverables, and interdependencies are managed proactively. • Anticipate risks and implement mitigation strategies.
3. Operational Excellence • Owns the planning and orchestration of leadership forums (NELT, XLT, planning sessions, offsites). • Partners with cross functional partners to lead annual planning process • Track progress against HEOR objectives, priorities and tactical plans • Liase with commercial and medical project leads (PLs) to ensure HEOR alignment on key initiatives/events • Liase with Raj’s team to monitor resources, budgets, and headcount planning
4. Communications & Stakeholder Engagement • Craft internal communications (slides, leadership messages, updates for cross-functional partners). • Foster transparency by ensuring key messages cascade effectively throughout the V&E organization. • Build bridges within V&E pillars and cross functional partners (e.g., IMAP, medical affairs, commercial teams, etc) to ensure HEOR delivers impact evidence generation.
5. Organizational & Talent Enablement • Support culture initiatives by shaping engagement activities, pulse surveys, and feedback loops. • Supports broader V&E initiatives with Grete • Partners with MHI Ops leadership to ensure HEOR is included in ops planning initiatives

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific or business-related field is required.
• Project management certification (e.g. PMP) preferred.
• Applied knowledge of project management tools and processes (e.g. management of integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk and procurement).
• Performance measurement (e.g. metrics, dashboards).
• At least 10 years of experience pharmaceutical experience with a Bachelors, 9 years with MS, 8 Years with PhD.
• Experience should include 3-4 years of project management and/or process improvement related experience. Demonstrated management experience.
• Demonstrated management experience preferred.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 86.00/hr.