Job Description
Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in Canada and Sweden. For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and has helped physicians enhance patient care with its broad product portfolio.
Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease. At Lantheus, our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success. Every employee is crucial to our success; we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone’s health is in our hands. We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skill sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team.
Summary
Lantheus’ Asset Program is critical for progressing our pipeline products and achieving our strategic goals. In this role, the Associate Director, Asset Project Management, will partner with the Senior Director, Asset Program Lead and is responsible for leading the cross-functional project management for one or more Asset Programs, and overseeing successful achievement of the Asset Program(s) goals. Additionally, the Associate Director will be responsible for leveraging a repeatable, fit-for-purpose project framework for use across Asset Programs, leveraging enterprise project management office tools, technologies, and maintaining consistent practice, project communications, dashboarding, risk and issue management.
Key Responsibilities/Essential Functions
* Partners closely with Senior Director, Asset Program Lead and other management in the development, management and execution of an integrated project plan that reflects the strategy and plan to achieve the objectives of the Asset Program.
* Operates in a manner consistent with the established center-of-excellence model for Asset Project Management:
o Applies the asset program project management framework and reporting and dashboard structure to foster consistent cross-functional understanding around the status and health of the program, the risks and dependencies.
o Leverages broader enterprise project management fit-for-purpose project management processes and tools using Smartsheet and other mechanisms that foster consistency, efficiency, and portfolio reporting.
* Provides strategic project management for a cross-functional asset program including development of an integrated detailed project plan, driving oversight and tracking progress against plan, anticipating risk to critical path and/or dependencies and facilitating risk and issue resolution.
* Measures progress and drives collaboration throughout the team to maintain high performance.
* Facilitates team meetings with a results-oriented approach, fostering positive collaboration, constructive deliberation and outcomes-focus.
* Supports and oversees cross-functional expert teams in establishing development, clinical or regulatory operational plans that support the achievement of the overall Asset Program objectives, including assessment of dependencies, critical path, resourcing and budgeting, and timelines.
* Oversees and supports cross-functional collaboration across expert teams ensuring plan progress and opportunities to exchange ideas and/or challenges that impact the overall program.
* Partners with and gains senior management alignment around the critical/key success measures for the asset program to inform escalations, portfolio reporting and governance discussions and decisions.
* In partnership with Asset Lead, prepares for and leads governance meetings and provokes meaningful discussion around key topics, decisions and/or considerations.
* Fosters strong rapport with business leads, and expert team members to stay current on overall progress, to identify emerging risks, competing priorities and/or to facilitate dialogue around key decisions, risks/issues.
* Creates and steers comprehensive communication and reporting that fosters regular, proactive sharing of key information.
* Encourages and shares good practices across teams, anticipates potential collision points, supports resolution of workstream challenges by proactively posing key questions to gauge progress, and/or to surface unrealized risk or opportunities.
* Regularly prepares, presents and reports to executive management, senior management, and workstream leads on asset program plan performance, status against the critical success factors and other key risks or opportunities that emerge.
* Acts as a coach, mentor and resource to foster good performance while instilling team spirit and Lantheus’ core values.
* Resolves conflicts and escalates issues in an effective manner.
* Always demonstrates good safety practices. Reports and takes initiative to correct safety & environmental hazards.
Basic Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree; Masters’ Business Administration (MBA), PPM or advanced degree.
* 10+ years' relevant project/program management experience within the pharmaceutical industry, with specific application in drug development, regulatory and/or clinical development or CMC.
* Previous experience participating in or leading asset teams in pharmaceutical industry.
* Strong understanding of drug development and familiarity with regulatory requirements.
* Ability to influence without authority and operate in a highly matrixed, cross-functional environment.
* Demonstrated ability to build cross-functional and matrix team engagement, balancing healthy deliberation and while also maintaining and prioritizing key timelines.
* Expertise in establishing cross-functional standards in support of business operations systems, especially as they impact and influence multiple departments and levels of management.
* Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills, with an ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
* Ability to see and communicate a stated vision, understand the strategy, and align tactics to the strategy.
* Strong and effective strategic thinker and problem solver with high degree of emotional intelligence, with the ability to both recognize and anticipate problems.
* Ability to translate solutions into viable action plans at an enterprise level that are effectively disseminated and implemented through cooperation of stakeholders.
* Experience managing and resolving issues, risks, and conflicts.
* Proven ability to operate independently, with minimal direct day-to-day supervision.
* This position is site-based and requires a presence on-site of 3 days per week in Bedford, MA when not traveling.
Lantheus is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, national origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Lantheus is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Lantheus will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the Lantheus Talent Acquisition team at talentacquisition@lantheus.com.
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