Senior Manager Resource Management

To be successful, the RM will need to have an in-depth understanding of pharmaceutical development, pharmaceutical discovery, pre-clinical development, research and early development functional roles, responsibilities and work effort. The manager will be experienced in using industry standard resource management tools and respective reporting tools to help plan and manage resource capacity.

Essential Functions

• Serves as an interface and point of contact between Resource Management (RM) and RpD and Translational Medicine functions for the review and assessment of functional resource strategies including the assessment of available resources against requirements and confirmation of resource plans with functional leadership.
• Works with partner functions to verify that study, project, and program assumptions are current and ensures resource utilization is optimized.
• Partners with applicable functions to design, develop, implement, and update algorithms used in resource demand forecasts.
• Works with other RMs assigned to other functional areas to ensure cross-functional consistency for resource and headcount management and reporting.
• Delivers regular and ad-hoc resource reports, including forecasted resource demand, capacity, gap analyses, and FTE planned vs. actuals.
• Enters, maintains, and monitors resource capacity, resource allocation and resource forecast data for applicable partner functions and ensures accurate reflection in the resource management system/tool.
• Proactively identifies and communicates resource related gaps, issues and risks to partner functions based on analysis of resource data. Supports review and discussion to resolve resource and/or capacity conflicts.
• Collaborates with business partners to deliver, maintain and update RM processes, guidelines, and templates to ensure business needs are addressed.
• Works with data analytics and IT to provide business requirements and subject-matter input on dashboards and metrics, validate outputs, and identify and implement new reports as needed.
• Performs program- and function-level scenario analyses, modeling the impact of changes in assumptions or timelines on resource needs, and supports the Director on portfolio-level scenarios.
• Ensures data quality for the quarterly budget reforecast for assigned functions, coordinating with Finance and the Director.

Preferred Qualifications

• Flexible and adaptable and a refined ability to deal with ambiguity.
• A self starter that demonstrates initiative as well as the abilities and behaviors to drive business forward and obtains results by proactively engaging with stakeholders across functions.
• Experience implementing RM processes and Resource Management in Planisware and respective reporting in a drug development business in Tableau.
• Has worked within or across various drug development functions that may include but are not required: Clinical Operations; Project / Program Management; Strategic resource and capacity planning; Business Analyst; Finance.