Vaccine Asset Planner

Why Patients Need You

What You Will Achieve

How You Will Achieve It- Reports directly to the VDM Director, Project Management & Continuous Improvement.- Partners primarily with Program Managers (PMs)/Directors and members of project teams, protocol teams, and partner lines (e.g. Pharmaceutical Sciences, Clinical, DSRD, Clinical Sciences & Operations, Commercial, etc) to ensure accurate, integrated project reporting in RAPID.- Supports Portfolio Operations, asset, development/project and protocol teams, partner lines and others to provide regular information updates.- Collaborates with WRD and BU colleagues, portfolio and system colleagues (e.g. Integrated Portfolio Solutions (IPS)), and members of partner lines to drive development of new technologies and continuous improvement of planning processes, tools, reports, systems.- Collaborates and supports Vaccine Research and Development Strategy and Operations in updating and maintaining RAPID / Planisware data and algorithms.

Planning/Controlling (Scheduling Management)- Works with the Program Manager / Director, Program and Asset team members and platform line representatives, monitoring and reporting project schedule information to enable alignment of BU and partner line FTE and dollar resources.- Directly participates in and contributes to cross-functional and functional teams to discuss, review, and optimize protocol/project/program schedules, and resource management plans.- Creates and maintains program plans in Planisware for RAPID.- Contributes to the validation of resource information at the project level with the project teams.Project Execution and Delivery- Provides the Portfolio Operations group with project schedule information to enable effective portfolio management activities.Analysis and Reporting- Produces what-if scenario analyses in Planisware (base, optimistic and pessimistic development) based on context derived from the Program Manager / Director and project team members (e.g. Pharmaceutical Sciences, Clinical, DSRD, Development Operations, Commercial, etc).- Responsible for quality of schedule and resource flag data through review of quality reports and monitoring/management of such data with the team/line members.- Facilitates use of existing reporting tools by customer base (e.g., Business Objects, Spotfire).- Provides context to local customers of reports generated globally and consolidates customer feedback to enable improvement of existing reports and generation of new reports- At the discretion if the Program Manager / Director, develops and maintains project schedule visual depictions for governance and team use.- Maintains and develop Portfolio level reports, timelines, dashboards, and visuals for Sr Leadership.

Continuous Improvement- Contributes to continuous improvement of plan utilization, and reporting creating/developing processes, or systems/process integration.- Collaborates with colleagues to ensure cross-team and site learning's, and best practices are shared.- Promotes platform lines/teams taking ownership of data within planning tools to help them in management of their business.- Provides training and mentorship to new and established users in planning systems, and associated operating procedures and reporting.- Develops processes, tools, and trainings for VRD Governance, Reporting and Planning systems.

**Qualifications**:
Must-Have- 5-8 of experience years with B.S. or 3-6 years of experience with M.S- At least 3 years' experience in project planning and project management- At least 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical development- Experience with planning and resource forecasting tools (Enterprise Project Management, Planisware)- Project Planning/Management Expertise- Proven track record of planning or managing complex projects- Demonstrated understanding of stakeholder risk management and mitigation strategies in order to simulate the likely obstacles to project progression- Drug Development Knowledge- Technical proficiency is a key competency for this role: Technical proficiency includes experience in the use of project planning and resource forecasting tools and systems (e.g. Microsoft Project, Planisware))- Rapidly mastering new software tools

Nice-to-Have- Project Management for Professionals (PMP) Certification- PhD Degree with 0 to 2 years of experience and project planning and management

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTSOther Job Details- Relocation support available- Work Location Assignment: On Premise

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
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