The Diagnostic Project Management group within Precision Medicine, Project, Portfolio & Operations is accountable for providing project and portfolio management to the AZ Precision Medicine portfolio to ensure successful delivery of diagnostic projects from initiation of development to regulatory approval, across all therapy areas, and to further optimise the delivery of precision medicines by defining and championing best practices.
Furthermore, this group is responsible for driving continuous improvement processes, providing accurate Precision Medicine portfolio information for decision making and business reporting, and capacity and resource management.
The Associate Director, Diagnostic Project Management will work across several cross-functional diagnostic project/programme teams to provide hands-on project management expertise to deliver projects within agreed time, budget, and quality.
The role depends on close collaboration with members of the Diagnostic Project Management Office, diagnostic project teams, and external partners to ensure strategic alignment, and with Diagnostic Information Managers who are responsible for inputting project information into AZ's enterprise planning tool (PLANIT).
Typical Accountabilities:Manages multiple complex projects to deliver to time, cost, and quality.Creates and manages project plans to track and drive delivery of major milestones.Manages project costs aligned to investment decisions, and FTE resources aligned to project needs/forecast demand.Creates and manages project risk logs, and drives mitigating actions with diagnostic project teams.Creates progress reports to track delivery to time, cost, and quality.Coaches and works with Diagnostic Information Managers to ensure accuracy of project/portfolio information within AZ's enterprise planning tool (PLANIT).Drives process simplification and standardisation across Precision Medicine to maximise efficiencies and establish best practice.Plans and facilitates Diagnostic Project Team meetings, ensuring accurate actions are captured, circulated, and followed up on.
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