Senior Global Program Manager

About the Company

Viatris is a worldwide healthcare organization that brings together the strengths of generics and branded medicines to better meet patient needs across the globe. Its mission is to help people everywhere live healthier lives at every stage, and it supplies high-quality medicines to around 1 billion patients each year, supporting health needs from birth through later life, and from short-term illnesses to long-term conditions.

The company has also appeared on a number of award lists recognizing its contribution and impact.

This role is part of an ongoing hiring process and may be considered for future openings as well.

Role Overview

The Senior Global Program Manager will help drive global project execution by keeping teams aligned, supporting planning and decision-making, and making sure milestones are delivered with the expected quality, timing, and budget discipline.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate productive global project team meetings that support communication, help remove barriers, and resolve open issues.
• Make sure decisions, action items, and meeting commitments are followed through.
• Guide the team in building project timelines and budgets for work with moderate resource needs, risk, or complexity.
• Track project progress, provide status updates, and keep timelines and budgets current.
• Explain complex topics clearly so that team members understand the project objectives, plan, critical path, and related activities.
• Ensure deliverables are completed on schedule, within budget, and to the required quality standard.
• Prepare and coordinate global project scope documents and planning materials.
• Work with team members to keep sub-teams aligned and ensure functions are allocating resources appropriately to support sub-team goals.
• Identify project risks and develop mitigation actions with the team.
• Escalate possible issues to the Project Team Leader and the broader team for resolution.
• Create and put into action an Integrated Development Plan that supports the approved Project Strategy.
• Align functional goals with project team goals and include relevant project-team goals in individual objectives.
• Carry out any additional duties assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, along with 7 to 10 years of experience, is required; a mix of education and experience may also be considered.
• A Master’s degree or equivalent plus 5 years of pharmaceutical development experience is preferred.
• PMP certification is beneficial but not mandatory.
• Working knowledge of pharmaceutical development programs, including a basic understanding of clinical development, CMC development, commercial principles, and health authority requirements.
• Strong project management capability, including timeline planning, critical path identification, budget control, pharmaceutical risk analysis, and mitigation.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to drive team activity.
• Ability to interpret complex business and technical documents.
• Ability to prepare detailed reports and business correspondence.
• Comfort communicating ambiguous concepts with managers or directors.
• Ability to present to groups across the organization.
• Ability to work with a semi-autonomous level of supervision.
• Strong command of English in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Benefits package.
• Inclusive workplace environment.

Additional Information

McDermott Laboratories Limited is the employing entity mentioned in this posting.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

No salary figure, vacancy count, application deadline, or start date was provided in the source.