Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Technical Project Management

Cytokinetics is a specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company building on over 25 years of pioneering scientific innovations in muscle biology, and advancing a pipeline of potential new medicines for patients suffering from diseases of cardiac muscle dysfunction.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management support at any stage of the drug development lifecycle (e.g., early to late stage development, market authorization, or post launch phases).
• Develop charters, integrated schedules, deliverable lists, status updates, resource requests, and related communications for assigned projects.
• Maintain a positive, results oriented work environment by building partnerships, modeling collaboration, and communicating in an open, balanced and objective manner to enable a high performing team.
• Proactively monitor timelines, KPIs, critical path, and resources for assigned projects using appropriate tools, project management principles and practices to deliver project objectives.
• Work cross functionally to coordinate interdependencies with other projects.
• Resolve and/or elevate conflicts and issues to remove barriers to project success.
• Leverage risk management tools and techniques to proactively identify, mitigate and manage risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Engage sponsors, functional senior leadership, and key stakeholders in regular and meaningful project communications (dashboards, reports, metrics, etc.) to ensure delivery of expected business outcomes.
• Lead and/or support continuous improvement of processes and tools.
• Travel % as necessary according to project needs.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in a Scientific, Technical, Engineering, or Business discipline (advanced degree preferred).
• A minimum of 10 years total work experience, with at least 5 years relevant experience in project management within the life sciences (pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical device) industry.
• Sound technical knowledge in one or more of the following categories: Chemical Development, Formulation Development, Clinical, Manufacturing, Analytical, Packaging, Serialization, Planning, or Logistics (small molecule drug development is a plus).
• Outstanding project management, planning, organization, prioritization, and time management skills.
• Ability to adapt to changing situations and effectively manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Creative thinking to provide non standard solutions.
• Strong partnering skills - ability to cultivate highly effective working relationships with internal and external customers and stakeholders.
• Strong influencing, organizational and interpersonal skills - consistently achieves targeted results without authority by leveraging expertise, business knowledge, and partnerships.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred.
• Six Sigma or other Operational Excellence related certifications is a plus.

Pay Range

Not disclosed in the mandatory job description.

Cytokinetics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.