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The Senior Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for driving portfolio governance, strategic alignment and execution excellence across a cross-functional organization. This role combines portfolio governance and people leadership, serving as a key partner to senior leaders. The role acts as a central point of co-ordination across functions, ensuring consistency in project management standards, transparent reporting, and continuous improvement of portfolio process.
Job Responsibility:
Support and execute end-to-end portfolio governance frameworks, including intake, prioritization, stage-gate process and decision forums
Lead and develop a team of portfolio, program and/or project management professionals
Partner with leadership to ensure portfolio alignment with strategic objectives, funding, capacity, including risk management
Prepare materials and recommendations for portfolio review boards and steering committees
Lead components of annual and long-range portfolio planning
Facilitate scenarios and capacity analysis to support leadership decisions
Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards, KPIs, and executive level reports
Develop and enhance PMO processes, tools, and best practices, and implement global business processes for TDS, e.g. Technical Agenda and Consensus Yield
Developing detailed project plans and timelines for large scope cross-functional projects, driving execution and managing communication strategies, as needed
Partner with data science team to develop a digital technical agenda to support TDS portfolio
Mentor and train reports to build a team that can drive operational performance and deliver technical strategy for TDS
Design, facilitate, and report out of workshops run for meeting business needs
Design and execute on-site visual management and department engagement strategies
Support organizational redesign efforts to align with TDS Portfolio centralization strategy
Represent TDS at governance bodies and technical network meetings
Facilitate portfolio reviews, steering committees, and governance meetings
Enable clear communication across cross functional teams and leadership
Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Pharmaceutical Engineering discipline required
Lean Six Sigma certification is strongly recommended
10+ years' experience in a cGMP regulated manufacturing environment, with exhibited knowledge or proficiency in a manufacturing or manufacturing support function (MSAT, process development, engineering, business ops, etc.)
7-10 years' experience in portfolio management, PMO, program or project management
Strong leadership, organizational, and management skills
Excellent verbal and written communication
ability to present and influence all levels, including executive leadership
Strong understanding of portfolio governance, resource management, and performance tracking
Advanced proficiency with portfolio and reporting tools (e.g. MS Project, Planview, PowerBI)
Prior people management experience is preferred
Ability to influence and drive cross-functional collaboration
What we offer:
discretionary annual bonus
discretionary stock-based long-term incentives
paid time off
company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans