Senior Director, Project Management & Operational Excellence
# Senior Director, Project Management & Operational Excellence **Immunic Therapeutics** · Boston, MA · `On-site` 🕒 **Статус:** *Опубликовано: 4 дня назад* · *Источник: Indeed* --- ### About the Role Summary We are seeking a Senior Director, Project Management & Operational Excellence to lead the Project Management function and strengthen execution across development programs and other key strategic initiatives. You will establish a fit-for-purpose Project Management Office, integrate priorities, plans, risks, decisions and resources, and provide clear enterprise visibility that supports timely decision-making and reliable delivery. Reporting to the SVP, Clinical Development Operations, you will lead four experienced project managers. Each project manager will support a development program or other key strategic projects, working closely with functional leaders and cross-functional teams. To be successful in this role you must be a strategic leader who is comfortable with hands-on program management, operational excellence, change leadership and pragmatic execution. Responsibilities - Lead the Project Management and Operational Excellence function and define its vision, strategy, operating model and roadmap. - Lead, coach and develop four project managers supporting development programs and other key strategic projects. - Allocate project-management resources based on portfolio priorities, project complexity, critical milestones and organisational needs. - Establish clear objectives, responsibilities and performance expectations for the team. - Build a strong project-management community across company with consistent standards, tools and ways of working. - Establish and continuously improve fit-for-purpose governance, planning, reporting, risk-management and decision-support practices. - Ensure project managers develop and maintain integrated plans linking functional deliverables, milestones, dependencies, assumptions, resources and decision points. - Provide oversight and guidance across programs and strategic projects while maintaining clear accountability for delivery within each cross-functional team. - Monitor critical-path and near-critical activities, cross-functional dependencies, capacity constraints and emerging risks. - Ensure material changes in assumptions, scope, timelines or resources are assessed promptly for downstream impact. - Provide portfolio-level visibility into priorities, commitments, trade-offs, risks and resource requirements. - Drive alignment across functions on deliverables, timelines, responsibilities and escalation needs. - Ensure risks and issues are identified, assessed, owned, mitigated and escalated appropriately. - Lead operational coordination and readiness planning for major development and regulatory milestones. - Design and facilitate effective programme, project and governance forums with clear decision rights, accountabilities and outputs. - Prepare concise executive updates, scenarios and recommendations to support timely, informed decisions. - Maintain traceability of key decisions and actions and ensure timely follow-through. - Develop forward-looking dashboards and performance indicators that provide actionable insights. - Lead targeted operational-excellence and process-improvement initiatives across development and other functions. - Drive adoption of new processes, systems, governance models and ways of working while avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy. - Promote learning across programs and strategic projects by systematically capturing and applying lessons learned. - Contribute as a senior member of the Development leadership team and foster accountability, collaboration, constructive challenge and execution excellence. Qualifications & Experience - Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business or a related discipline. PMP or comparable qualification preferred. - Typically 12+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience, including substantial leadership in development program management, portfolio management, PMO or development operations. - Demonstrated experience leading a project-management function and managing experienced project-management professionals. - Proven ability to oversee multiple complex, global and cross-functional development programs or strategic projects. - Experience supporting major regulatory submissions, late-stage development activities or other critical organisational milestones. - Strong capabilities in integrated planning, governance, critical-path management, risk management, scenario planning and resource prioritisation. - Excellent executive communication, facilitation, influencing and decision-support skills. - Ability to operate effectively at both strategic and hands-on levels in a dynamic matrix organisation. - Experience establishing or advancing a Development PMO or operational-excellence capability preferred. - Experience in a biotechnology company undergoing development, regulatory or organisational growth preferred. Please note, Immunic does not accept unsolicited resumes from external agencies or recruiters. Submission of a resume without a prior written agreement does not create any express or implied contract between Immunic and the agency. Immunic will not pay any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Compensation Range: $230K - $270K
Наблюдалась 2026-10-15, впервые 2026-10-11, найдена на 2 площадках, источник — Indeed.