Position: Project Manager

Location: King of Prussia (Hybrid)

Company: SK Pharmteco

The Project Manager is responsible for the scheduling and financial reporting and billing of client

programs, which are cell and gene therapy CMC programs with significant unmet medical need or

in rare diseases. In this role, the Project Manager partners closely with the Scientific Program

Leader on one or multiple client programs to enable the program team to be successful in meeting

and exceeding our client requirements, thus ultimately serving our patients.

The Project Manager tracks each applicable stage throughout its lifecycle and makes sure that

critical information is shared among the various team members. Needs to be organized, efficient,

and driven to succeed. Generally required to perform a wide variety of tasks on a daily basis.

Responsibilities:

• Scheduling; Organizing Program Information, Budget Management, Scope Change Management, Progress Monitoring; Updating team members and partners; Managing information flow
• Works integrally with the Analytical SME’s, Analytical Development Head and GMP Testing Head in developing schedules and scenarios to meet critical milestones. .
• Is client interfacing serving as the leader of joint Analytical Subteam meeting and as a Core Team Member on the Joint Core Team. Connects internal SMEs to client SME’s as needed.
• Works integrally with the Program Leader, Finance and Business Development from Proposal to Program Initiation to Program Close Out in regards to Analytical timelines and budget management.

Skills:

• Communication: Able to make the complex simple and appropriate for the audience level (e.g. how to simplify schedules to show the critical path, bottle necks, and risks; how to simplify the financial reporting to a one-pager capable of showing the overall financial health of a project automating as much of the reporting as possible with potentially more detailed reporting when interfacing with Finance).
• Problem-solving: Projects rarely go exactly as planned, and the best candidates pro-actively work with team members and the Program Leader to show areas of timeline or budget risk via data and visuals, enabling the team to proactively mitigate risks. Understands the fundamentals of analytical methods and when to pull in certain SME’s to resolve issues.
• Highly Organized: Able to manage lots of moving parts and keep information organized and accessible to both internal and external team members electronically, allowing the Program Leader and team to stay aligned to overall program decisions, timeline commitments, and actions.
• Budgeting: Financial project acumen that allows the candidate to understand and prepare financial reports, and operate within SAP to assure timing billing and change order tracking for Testing Only Programs. For CDMO Programs, provides this input to the Project Manager.
• Team Player: Overall good cross-functional team player able to partner Analytical Development, GMP Testing, Stability, Sample Management, and Supply Chain for Materials, and clients on the Tech Transfer or development of methods. Lives into our culture where the “We is more important than the I”.
• Technically Knowledgeable: Familiar with Analytical methods, laboratory operations, and clinical phase appropriate development. Able to use laboratory systems such as LIMS, to collect and keep data organized both for internal team members and the client.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree, preferable in science or engineering or operations/supply chain.
• 3-15 years of relevant drug development CMC experience, preferably in biotherapeutics. PM level may vary by years of experience.
• Experience in Project Management and/or Project Controls.
• Experience in operating in a matrix team organization.
• Proficient in Project Management tools such as MS Project, MS Teams, OneNote, Smartsheet, Tableau, SAP, and/or equivalent software tools.