Director – Global Patient Safety Planning & Strategy

Director – Global Patient Safety Planning & Strategy

Requirements

• 10 + years of pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience relevant planning and operations experience in global development area and specific industry experience in managing and providing oversight of a operational and planning team.
• Minimum BA/BS in business, marketing, finance, science/technology, or related field. Advanced Degree is preferred but not required; MS/PhD or MBA with experience working within a science-based organization /function, or in Physical, or Life Sciences.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical/biotech operations, including drug development, and an understanding of all stages of research drug development.
• Expertise in MS applications including (but not limited to) Teams, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel.
• Up to 10% Travel.

Responsibilities

• Oversee strategic activities including objective and goal setting, quarterly reporting, resource and budget management, team communications, aligning interdepartmental and cross-functional activities, and issue management.
• Collaborate with all of the RA, GPS and DQ functional lines and, as required, facilitate the execution of strategic objectives.
• Support resource management, strategic planning, development and implementation of key initiatives.
• Spearhead implementation of initiatives including project tracking and ensuring appropriate cross-functional links to other stakeholders.
• Support stakeholder management across RA, PA & DQ.
• Monitor performance and quality delivery from the functional organization.
• Drive the development and tracking of functional goals, including coordinating periodic functional reviews, collating quarterly status, and ensuring issue escalation/resolution.
• Facilitate the development, maintenance, and review of management reports /dashboards enabling decision making and strategic action.
• Enable functional resource and budget management activities.
• Support headcount planning and evaluating sourcing models/approaches.
• Facilitate resource management and review of demand/capacity.
• Oversee job descriptions, requisition management, headcount openings, and active postings.
• Collaborate with HR to support employee onboarding, engagement, and talent reviews.
• Assist in functional budget management/tracking of spend and liaises with cross functional leadership and Finance.
• Own key functional meetings, communications, engagement & team events. This involves preparing agendas, meeting materials, action/deliverable tracking and follow up.
• Ensure appropriate communication cascade within/outside the organization in partnership with Corporate Communications and RA, PS, DQ Chief of Staff.
• Represent the functional Senior Leadership Team at delegated meetings, events, activities.
• May directly supervise administrative support staff for select activities and projects.
• Enrich the team environment reflective of the values of the Regeneron Way.

Preferred Qualifications

• Highly organized and detail oriented, while also demonstrating the ability to synthesize information and think strategically.
• Self-motivated, flexible, proactive, able to follow through in an ambiguous, fast changing environment, and proven ability to meet deadlines under pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proven ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization, including senior leadership.
• Experience in contributing or leading cross-functional strategic change initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong presentation skills (written/verbal), including the ability to summarize complex information concisely.
• Effective influencing and negotiating skills.
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.