Manager Device Program Lead

McDermott Laboratories Limited

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.
Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.
We do so via:
Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and
Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services.
 

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

Project Management using advanced program management skills to lead cross-functional teams in the development and delivery of robust and high-quality injectable drug-device technologies. The role may span multiple technologies including include autoinjector, prefilled pen, PFS and vial-kit device programs.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Manager, Device Program Lead role will make an impact:

• Accountable for the provision of technical project management to Global Device Development programs to deliver end to end program management (concept generation through registration and launch) for drug delivery device programs, within agreed budget spend, and time constraints, aligned with Viatris business plans.
• Generate & maintain projects plans, resource forecasts, technical & business risk registers and proactively use knowledge and information to communicate with peers to enable program execution
• Leads Internal/External Partners to identify opportunities and solutions to enable the development programme to maintain on-track to plan.
• Works with the team to manage schedule conflict issues and resource peaks/troughs, and where appropriate escalate to in a timely fashion. 
• Leads project what-if scenario analyses (base, optimistic and pessimistic cases) based on information provided by members of the programme team to negotiate and reach agreement on a realistic, yet aggressive, plan or schedule.
• Leads the team in preparation, implementation and maintenance of integrated project risk management plan.
• Provides timely reporting to the programme team members, alerting them to the possibility of endangered/ missed or conflicting milestones, as well as critical path activities.
• Proactive planning of all activities within the development team to ensure engagement of team members in the delivery of the right content, of the right quality, at the right time.
• Actively promote a positive and engaged QMS and EH&S culture.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Degree in a pharmaceutical science or engineering, or equivalent. MSc, PhD or MBA is desirable.
• Proven track record of managing programs and leading complex cross functional program teams, in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry
• Experience of working across the full project development cycle, from discovery / in-licensing through to registration, launch and post-market support.
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills to lead or facilitate effective technical and project discussions with technical teams and stakeholders.
• Experience of working with external partners (CMO’s).
• Proficient user of project management planning software (MSP), and able to demonstrate experience of using project management methodologies (resource management, risk management, budget management etc)
• Experience of leading a drug delivery device programme through development to product scale-up and launch.
• Knowledge of drug delivery technologies, e.g. pen injectors, autoinjectors, vial kits, inhaler technologies, and prefilled syringes.
• Application and understanding of the requirements of key industry standards, as applicable to drug delivery and medical device development, including ISO 13485, ISO 14971 and 21CFR Part 820.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

• Excellent career progression opportunities
• Work-life balance initiatives
• Bonus scheme
• Health insurance
• Pension

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. 

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.