Basel Metropolitan Area
A versatile, experienced Project Manager with hands on expertise in drug development, familiar with working in a multicultural and cross-functional environment. Aiming at enabling projects by providing a wide range of project management support: developing, tracking and maintenance of aligned project plans, scenario development, preparation and facilitation of events, leadership meetings and workshops. Chief of staff, acting as central coordinator of the department in close partnership with senior management. Challenging assumptions and proposing options. Enabling quality decision-making, ensuring effective resource utilization. Passionate about improving team performance and simplifying processes, searching for a direct impact on the success of the organization. Collaboration with leadership team to promote and foster agile ways of working. PhD in Molecular Biology. MBA
Proactively support the teams to deliver with maximized productivity on the strategic objectives, aligned with the relevant governance bodies. Operationalize the development of deliverables. Close collaboration with leadership to ensure that teams deliver on their projects on time, with the expected quality, within budget and scope. Acting as ambassador of agile ways of working and methodologies such as Design Thinking and Scrum. Facilitation of project execution with situational awareness and strategic alignment, appropriate challenge and conflict resolution. Keeping oversight of business and financial resources. Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for relevant stakeholders.
Established high performing cross-functional divestment team while driving collaboration with key stakeholders towards the realisation of the deal. Act as the interface between the Established Medicines Franchise as well as Business Development & Licensing (BD&L). Oversee the BD&L project within the EM Franchise through coordinating the support of all line functions involved to ensure the timely execution of the project. Utile appropriate techniques and systems, identify areas of improvement, and implementation of optimised solutions.
Provided project management leadership and direction to the Global Programme Team. Actively participated in the formulation of the Clinical Development Plan and business value assessments while tracking programme team goals to ensure that deliverables meet established requirements. Directed the franchise-wide set-up for global and sub-team SharePoints and facilitated teamwork on documents and document sharing.
Utilised OPX2 to effectively develop and maintain the project plan and monitored the program budget in strategic drug development scenarios and in the context of daily operations. Liaised with key project stakeholders to accurately estimate the study or programme lifetime costs and challenged as well as monitored programme and trial resource requirements.
Leading a team of CRAs in Spain, France, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom and managed the international phase IV oncology study in 80 study centres and for 800 breast cancer and lymphoma patients. Monitored study conduct to ensure compliance with SOPs and ICH/GCP guidelines. Design of the electronic CRF while ensuring the coordination of data management.