Project Management Specialist

Job Description

This Project Management role is for Chemical Development of NCEs/CDMO/CRAMS projects located in Mumbai, India. The candidate in this role will be a part of the core team of CDMO business and should work diligently and will have to handle all project management activities of our customer collaborations smoothly.

Primary Responsibilities of Role:

• Preparing Project Charters/Project Health Reports and circulating to all stakeholders
• Ensuring kick off meetings as soon as project is awarded/communication from management
• Close monitoring of projects in terms of resource allocations, timelines and budgets
• Need to coordinate cross-functional teams seamlessly
• Identifying bottlenecks and involve respective teams for resolution/planning
• Coordinate weekly/bi-weekly review meetings with R&D and with management
• Track the deliverables committed to client/internal teams for development/pilot /commercial batches
• Ensuring seamless and transparent communication with regards to project status to internal/external clients through regular updates
• Understand the project progress and anchor client telecoms/ video calls
• Understand client RFPs, Proposals preparation, Scope of the project and commercials
• Closely coordinating with BD team and ensuring customer satisfaction and responding to customer queries received through BD team
• Ensuring necessary approvals and tracking through SAP from RM procurement/new equipment procurements till invoicing
• Coordinate with regulatory teams to fulfil regulatory requirements of client/internal projects
• Ensuring all statutory requirements at required locations such as test license, manufacturing license etc.,

Qualification and Requirements:

• Bachelor degree / Master degree in Chemistry, Life Sciences, Business, Chemical Engineering or equivalent or PhD are preferred.
• 7-8 years' overall project management experience, PMP Certification is advantage
• Experience in CDMO companies working with small to medium size biotech and pharmaceutical companies are MANDATORY.
• Demonstrated knowledge of CDMO technical services with experience in a variety of small molecules and peptides projects
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills and client meetings
• A true team player with demonstrated ability to navigate across multiple locations and work cross-functionally, collaboratively, and within a highly matrixed organization.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements and quality standards
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including proficiency in data analysis.
• Team motivator, and go getter attitude
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Possess strong sense of urgency
• Proficient with Microsoft Office or Google Workspace related software

Experience - 3-4 years