Senior Manager Project Management, TIDES Discovery

WuXi TIDES, part of WuXi AppTec’s subsidiary WuXi STA, provides drug discovery, CMC development, and manufacturing services for oligonucleotides, peptides, and related synthetic conjugates. The Senior Manager Project Management leads projects from proposal through completion, coordinating clients, technical teams, and business development while supporting customer engagement and project proposals.

Responsibilities:

• Lead all project initiation and planning efforts. Participate in the implementation and execution of a given project. Establishes project objectives, timelines, and deliverables. Defines project tasks and resource requirements. Closely monitor/control project progression to ensure the project is completed on schedule and within budget. Reports project progress to all key stakeholders
• Supports the technical team to investigate any project challenges by necessary risk assessment tools & techniques, then implements corrective measures
• Serves as liaison with client contacts, manages day-to-day communications, and organizes project team meetings
• Represent company in project meetings, prepare meeting agendas and minutes, and follow up on action items
• Evaluate and assess project results and provides recommendations for future improvements
• Provides support to the business development team by joining customer visits, conferences, or tradeshows
• Facilitates the generation of Quotations/Proposals/Change Orders with inputs from key stakeholders for existing relationships
• Work closely with team members across all Discovery, CMC related business units and with the WuXi-TIDES management team to ensure coordination of all efforts and real-time communication with all stakeholders

Requirements:

• Candidate should possess strong and effective project management, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills and have a proven track record working cross-functionally across a wide variety of technical, business, and operational areas
• Demonstrates a good understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and drug development
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience in discovery chemistry
• Must have working knowledge of MS Office products, especially MS Project
• Must be a self-starter, self-motivated, and highly flexible
• Must be organized and detail-oriented
• Proven experience in creating and carrying out successful plans and processes to solve complex problems
• Proficiency in both English and Mandarin is required
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation skills)
• • Masters (MS) or PhD in life sciences
• • A minimum of 3 years of pharmaceutical or CRO/CMO industry experience
• • Prior experience in project management or managing external research collaborations
• Working knowledge and understanding of current regulations and industry trends for oligonucleotide and Solid State Peptide experience is a plus
• Experience in a Contract Research Organization (CRO) or Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) is preferred, but not required
• chemistry preferred
• preferably in API process R&D and manufacturing and/or Drug Product R&D and manufacturing
• PMP certification desired