This role of Commercial Project Manager will report directly to the senior Project Manager. The primary function of the role will be to co-ordinate their commercial readiness programme in preparation for their first UK, European and US ATMP product licence registrations. The Commercial Project Manager will work extensively with a cross-functional team, including Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Quality Assurance and Engineering. The candidate will be responsible for co-ordinating the programme execution, tracking progress, and ensuring key targets are met. Communication and collaboration across the organisation and with our client will be a core part of the role. It is expected that the Commercial Readiness focus of this role will extend for up to 2 years, after this transition to a multi-client portfolio.
On offer for the Commercial Project Manager is a competitive salary and benefits package.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain the joint client commercialisation project schedule, action/risk tracker and KPIs.
- Identify inter-departmental and inter-company dependencies.
- Manage internal and external communications including internal and joint project team meetings as aligned with the project Governance structure.
- Liaise regularly with all members of Commercialisation team, facilitating smooth running of multiple projects/actions and identifying/escalating blocks as they occur.
- Establish project goals and deliverables in collaboration with the joint leadership team. Track processes, ensuring all cross-functional elements are progressed on schedule.
- Support with the preparation of specific proposals and statements of work as appropriate (e.g. external testing and specialist support).
- With the Leadership team, identify resources needed (e.g. personnel, equipment, capital).
- Generate consolidated action/risk tracker and co-ordinate with relevant departments to ensure actions are completed in a timely manner.
- Track requests for project change/scope, managing evaluation, potential impact, decision making and implementation of change.
- Support Management in keeping the Project teams motivated and informed about results, milestones, deliverables and changes.
- Develop effectual communication plans, implementing lean and effective processes.
- Co-ordinate generation of a monthly status report.
- Review deliverables prepared by the team, as appropriate, before passing to clients.
- Ensure project documents are complete, up to date and stored appropriately.
- Minimise company exposure and risk on projects through communicating concerns to management.
- Improve project administration processes by identifying inefficiencies and recommending solutions.
- Manage regular client meetings and ensure timely and accurate communication utilising internal project team meetings and pre-meetings to gather and review information as appropriate.
- Continuously manage project and client expectations.
- Provide and ensure clients receive excellent customer service and proactive, clear and timely communication.
- Proactively, pre-empt client needs and feed this back to the management team.
Qualifications and skillset required:
- A degree in a Life Science or equivalent qualification.
- Experience of Project Management ideally within a Pharmaceutical/GMP manufacturing environment.
- Competence with Microsoft Project and the Microsoft-365 suite.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Interest to undertake a recognised Project Management Qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP or equivalent).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Exceptional organisational, attention to detail and time management skills
- Excellent administration and record keeping skills.
- Ability to explain technical or complex concepts in a clear format to both technical and non-technical audiences
- The ability to work effectively within a small team