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Director, Resource Management, Cambridge
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Posted:
19.08.2025
Expiry Date:
03.10.2025
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Job Description:
This position is on-site in Tarrytown, NY; Warren, NJ; or Cambridge, MA 4 days a week and 1 day from home. A fully remote role is not possible for this position.
The Director, Resource Management (DRM) is a key liaison across multiple functions in Global Development (GD) providing comprehensive resource management and strategic workforce planning for GD functions with respect to current programs as well as supporting the future planning portfolio. The DRM will supervise and coach two resource managers on the team. To be successful, the DRM will need to have an in-depth understanding of pharmaceutical development, GD functional roles, responsibilities and work effort. The DRM will be an expert in industry standard resource management tools and respective reporting tools to provide key insights regarding capacity, workforce planning, and resource estimates. The DRM will be confident in producing ad-hoc scenarios to support business development and alternative development pathways. The DRM will drive a team across all functional areas in GD to ensure cross-functional consistency and harmonized business processes. The DRM will promote the adherence to RM processes and the delivery of high-quality resource planning, capacity management, tracking, and forecasting of functional resources.
In a typical day, you will:
* Serve as the key interface and point of contact between Resource Management (RM) and partner functions (i.e. resource liaisons) for the review and assessment of functional resource strategies including the assessment of available resources against requirements and confirmation of resource plans with functional leadership.
* Work with partner functions to ensure that study, project, and program assumptions are current and resource utilization is optimized.
* Partners with applicable functions to design, develop, implement, and update algorithms in the RM tool used in resource demand forecasts.
* Direct other RMs assigned to additional functional areas to ensure cross-functional consistency for resource and headcount management.
* Assist partner functions with capacity management providing support for annual headcount planning and ensuring data quality for the quarterly budget reforecast activities.
* Deliver regular and ad-hoc resource reports, including forecasted resource demand, capacity, gap analyses, and FTE planned vs. actuals that provide clear insights needed for decision making.
* Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Resource Management and Global Development Resource Capacity Planning for assets, programs, and studies.
* Provide leadership and operational support for resource management processes including active resource management, capacity planning, and strategic workforce planning.
* Work with the Data Analytics (DA) team to design reports to help identify trends and develop metrics and analytics around resourcing and to develop functional and portfolio resourcing benchmarks and metrics
* Conduct portfolio and program level scenario analyses. Models impact of changes in assumptions on resource estimates.
This role may be for you if you have:
* Bachelor’s Degree required and 12+ years’ experience in Biotech/Pharmaceutical/CRO, including, but not limited to, Early and Late Development functional areas. Or a Master’s Degree (MS/MBA) and 10+ years of relevant experience may be considered.
* Experience designing, developing, and implementing algorithms in biopharma is required.
* A solid understanding of all global clinical operational activities required to deliver a clinical development program from candidate selection to post-approval. Familiarity with Regulatory and Safety organizations a plus
* Excellent analytical, budgeting, and resource balancing skills
* Effective communication (clear and concise written and verbal skills), influencing, and negotiating.
* Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, ability to build relationships internally and externally (e.g. with supervisors, peers, partners and stakeholders).
* Experience with supervising, coaching, and mentoring direct reports.
* Expert with Planisware for project planning and resource forecasting including the design, development, and implementation of algorithms is required. Experience with Tableau is preferred.
* Extensive experience with reporting for business facing resource management in drug development.
* Ability to travel up to 20%
In order to be considered qualified, Bachelor’s Degree is required and 12+ years’ experience in Biotech/Pharmaceutical/CRO, including, but not limited to, Early and Late Development functional areas. Or a Master’s Degree (MS/MBA) and 10+ years of relevant experience may be considered.
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