Associate Director, Operational Excellence
Precision For Medicine
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $162,000 - $243,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of enterprise initiatives and cross-functional programs from initiation through close-out.
- Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and success metrics in alignment with organizational priorities.
- Manage project risks, dependencies, and issues, escalating as appropriate to ensure successful outcomes.
- Apply structured project and program management methodologies to ensure consistent, predictable delivery.
- Support the vision of and commitment to continuous improvement in operational excellence across all activities.
- Translate enterprise and functional strategies into actionable plans and roadmaps for enterprise initiatives.
- Support execution of transformation, process improvement, and operational effectiveness programs.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, scalability, and consistency across the organization.
- Ensure enterprise initiatives are aligned with governance requirements, quality standards, and regulatory expectations.
- Lead the evaluation of business processes and workflows to identify opportunities for improvement or automation.
- Lead stakeholders in root-cause problem-solving techniques to identify core process challenges.
- Lead the development of recommendations for process improvement, leveraging subject matter experts for critical input.
- Partner with cross functional leadership to prioritize improvement opportunities and support strategic initiatives.
- Identify, develop and execute strategies for on-going and sustained improvement in operational functions, including identification of tools, systems, staffing or other resources, procedures, and communication.
- Partner on the design and implementation of new business processes with organizational context and priorities in mind.
- Lead organizational change management to ensure adoption and sustainability of process changes.
- Lead internal communication to effectively update stakeholders on progress, performance, key issues, and blockers that may impact business attainment or critical program and project completion.
- Identify operational risks and lead implementation of mitigation plans.
- Ensure or lead the documentation of business process.
- Establish key performance metrics and dashboards for monitoring operational performance.
- Monitor, measure, and analyze the effectiveness of new initiatives and processes, making adjustments as needed.
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track progress and drive decision-making.
- Monitor adoption of process, system and organizational changes to ensure long-term and sustained adoption.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or its international equivalent) + 12 years of related experience
- Experience in CRO/pharmaceutical/biotechnology drug development or demonstrated competency in the key areas of the role
- Strong drug development experience with understanding of other functions relevant to the position.
Benefits
- health insurance
- retirement savings benefits
- life insurance
- disability benefits
- parental leave
- paid time off for sick leave and vacation
- discretionary annual bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementprogram managementprocess improvementoperational excellencerisk managementchange managementperformance metricskey performance indicatorsbusiness process documentationroot-cause analysis
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic thinkingorganizational skillsstakeholder managementadaptabilityanalytical skillscontinuous improvement