[R&D] Staff, Project Manager

Pfizer Inc.

Tokyo, Japan

Job posting number: #7293411 (Ref:pf-4923362)

Posted: November 7, 2024

Job Description

1.Job Objective:

  • Provide overall project management for Japan Medicin Teams (JMT) to ensure alignment of strategic and operational objectives.
  • Ensure that the operational deliverables of assigned projects are achieved on or ahead of schedule and within standards so that they meet the Target Product Profile, business deliverables and/or key decision points.
  • Ensure that project remains within agreed budget limits and timelines.
  • Drive delivery against goals.

2. Job Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Lead Team operations, i.e., set meeting agendas, facilitate discussions, develop consensus, translate it into action items and monitor progress in order to achieve key milestones according to endorsed plan and time, cost and quality parameters.
  • Partner with Non-clinical Team members to define non-clinical deliverables and ensure that they are aligned, integrated with overall project design and achieved as planned.
  • Partner with Clinical Study Manager, Project Planner and Category Marketing to integrate clinical protocol-level deliverables into overall project plan, ensuring that project milestones and objectives are met.
  • Partner with Project Planner to ensure that project schedules, resource management and project controls are established and maintained.
  • Work closely with Portfolio and Category Marketing to ensure alignment of project and portfolio goals and objectives, and provide project information necessary to support portfolio-level decision making and prioritization.
  • Ensure alignment between overall strategic, operational and Line plans for assigned projects and programs, i.e., all projects have integrated project plan.
  • Ensure alignment overall strategic and resource plans.
  • Lead Team in preparation, implementation and maintenance of integrated risk management plans including resource management.
  • Effectively communicates issues in order to facilitate development of options and Team recommendations to governance.
  • Partner with Team and PPM leadership to identify options for decreasing project/program risks and negotiate preferred JMT option to implement de-risking plan most rapidly at lowest cost while maintaining acceptable quality.
  • Responsible for effective, accurate and timely communication of project information to stakeholders including Category Lines.
  • Identify Team performance issues and partner with Line leadership to recommend and develop appropriate actions.

3. Skill Requirements:

  • Demonstrated oral and written communication skills to create an environment for collaborative work necessary for Team to be effective.
  • Strong track record in project management discipline and its application to drug development.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively implement tools and techniques of project management discipline, such as development and management of multi-disciplinary integrated operational plans, Critical path management, Project Risk Management, Meeting management and Decision Analysis.
  • Technical experience in disciplines associated with drug development and/or commercialization.
  • Extensive clinical operations and pharmaceutical business experience in order to have thorough understanding of processes associated with executing clinical development plans and addressing related regulatory issues.
  • Proven ability to influence and negotiate with others for delivery of personal and Team goals.
  • Demonstrated success in managing a highly matrix-based Team, i.e., can raise scenarios and suggestions during strategy setting or decision-making to ensure Team has investigated all alternatives.
  • Demonstrated results in creating and managing complex program plans, including experience in budgetary management and fiscal awareness.
  • Strategic thinking, i.e., ability to understand how external influences affect strategy and how changes in strategy affect tactics.
  • Knowledge of commercial issues which drive medicine projects/products.
  • Networking and alliance building ability to drive and encourage openness and communications within Team and Lines to deliver key milestones faster and at a lower cost in execution of plan.
  • Good English command for project management and collaborating with Global personnel.

4. Please briefly list your contacts inside and outside of the organization, and their relevance to your job.

  < External Contacts > < Relevance to your job >

  • PMs in Pharma industry

   Exchange information, Enhance Pfizer presence, Learn other business model for continuous improvement

  • Influencers to our business (e.g., MHLW, PMDA, KOLs)

   Best possible project planning and execution

  < Internal Contacts > < Relevance to your job >

  • PM Category Rep and PM Group Lead

   Right project planning, execution and reporting (including resource and risk management), Ensure alignment between projects and Category strategies

  • Project Management Office Group Lead

   Accurate and updated project valuation

  • Project Planners

   Right project planning and tracking in terms of time, cost and resource

  • Clinical Study Manager

   Integrate protocol-level deliverables into overall project plan, Support  leading operational Subteam for time and resource management

  • Team members

   Develop integrated project plan, Maximize project value, Ensure project and commercial goals are met as planned

  • Line function Leads

   Ensure alignment of project plans and priorities between Team and Lines

  • JDL

   Ensure alignment on project and Category strategies

  • DJ Leadership Team

   Represent Tam and JDL/JCL for projects as needed

  • Global Project Manager

   Ensure alignment between Japan and Global project strategies/plans

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.

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Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.


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Job posting number:#7293411 (Ref:pf-4923362)
Application Deadline:Open Until Filled
Employer Location:Pfizer Inc.
New York,New York
United States
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