Business Manager
Full-time, Contract
Job Description
- Lead key business and people processes including scorecard preparation, succession & talent planning, rewarding performance, risk management and corrective action planning
- Facilitate development of Biosamples business strategy, recommend and implement actions to achieve short and long term goals
- Ensure robust demand, capacity and time management across the function to meet the current and future needs of the portfolio.
- Leads the resource allocation process, in partnership with the line managers to meet the current needs of the portfolio.
- Retain oversight of resourcing across the Biosamples portfolio by providing accurate data in PLANIT and monthly resource updates to R&D resource councils to ensure accurate functional wide portfolio reporting
- Retain oversight of risks to delivery across the Biosamples portfolio to enable early identification and appropriate mitigation.
- Lead Biosamples functional budget to ensure annual spend is delivered to target
- Develops, maintains and ensures visibility of up-to-date metrics on functional performance
- Prepare business plans to achieve continued investment into Biosamples
- Plan and facilitate Biosamples LT meetings, to drive decision making aligned to strategic and operational priorities
- Build and implement business change plans aligned to functional growth objectives
- Drive development and delivery of impactful communication strategies
- Maintains a high degree of understanding and awareness of internal business processes that could affect Biosamples and drug development
- Collaborate with R&D leaders on BioSample data opportunities and prioritize to have maximum impact on clinical programmes
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Scientific/Business degree or equivalent experience
- Previous experience in a similar role in the pharmaceutical industry
- Knowledge of drug and/or diagnostic development processes
- Proven experience in capacity management and working with demand and supply processes
- Experience of developing and utilising metrics to demonstrate and drive performance
- Ability to influence strategically and persuade tactfully, to obtain desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organisational relationships
- A professional, enthusiastic, and proactive approach, with the ability to independently manage a diverse and fast paced workload
- Problem solver
- Understanding of HBS requirements
Reference no: 93492