Technical Project Manager

With extensive experience in developing biologics and bioconjugates, we offer a seamless service delivered by fully integrated teams, from early discovery to commercial manufacturing.

Forward-thinking and committed, we find the best solution and use the right technologies to design, develop and manufacture your products to ensure we get vital medicines to patients quickly and safely.

We are dedicated to quality excellence. We are driven to get better treatments to market, efficiently and responsibly by reducing timelines and delivering the highest quality products and services.

We are Abzena. More than a CDMO, we are a responsible and dedicated partner that takes care of your products from concept to patient.

The Technical Project Manager is a technically trained project manager with responsible for supporting the delivery of integrated development and manufacturing programs at the Abzena San Diego Site. The Technical Project Manager is a capable communicator that can organize information and provide the internal teams with guidance throughout the lifecycle of a customer project. This role is also tasked with maintaining customer relationships established by the Technical Program Managers and Sales Business Partners by ensuring the cross-functional teams deliver upon the contract commitments. The position is part of a development path for project managers and/or technical leaders moving from other functional areas.

Responsibilities

• Maintains program status and financial reports for internal and external distribution.
• Ensures all client meetings are successful through planning, coordination, and preparation with internal stakeholders prior to execution.
• May support Technical Program Managers during client interactions by capturing and managing meeting minutes, decisions, risks, countermeasures, and actions.
• Serve as a point of contact for internal and external project stakeholders.
• Maintains accurate, detailed, and integrated project plans for each client project through continuous updates and alignment checks with customers and internal colleagues.
• Drive milestones and deliverables across functions to achieve the overall program objectives.
• Partners with project teams to track and drive project risk countermeasures.
• Monitors client documentation creation and approval, flagging risks and coordinating countermeasures as directed by Technical Program Managers.
• Actively manages internal and external program SharePoint sites to ensure organization, completeness, and alignment with contract deliverables.
• Provides updates and coordinates customer meetings through clear and succinct communication.
• Ensures accurate and timely reporting of performance metrics for each project at defined intervals.
• Develops and leverages a network across all site functions to ensure established processes are followed.
• Collaborates with the Technical Program Managers and technical teams to ensure prospective client proposals are reviewed and returned to internal business partners in a timely fashion.
• Initiates and monitors invoicing based on the contract payment schedule.
• Monitors execution of each client program to ensure alignment with the stated strategy and goals.
• Collaborates with workstream sponsors, leads, and team members to identify problems, trends, and impacts on project success along with proposed corrective actions.
• Provide guidance and reinforce Project Management best practices to teams during all project phases through one-on-one interactions and group settings.
• Develop and leverage a network across all site functions to ensure established processes are followed.
• Use judgement and discretion to maintain consensus and support among independent stakeholders in a rapidly changing environment.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in life science related discipline.
• Minimum of two (2) years of project management experience in a relevant field.
• Experience managing client or customer relationships is preferred.
• PMP certification preferred.
• Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Understanding and strong knowledge of the overall drug development process preferred.
• Previous direct experience working in cGMP environments including an understanding of related regulatory compliance requirements preferred.
• Must be able to work and communicate efficiently with employees on all levels in one-on-one and group settings.
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and deliver results with minimal supervision.
• Organized, flexible and easily adapts to changing conditions.
• Excellent customer service skills, with a strong bias toward action, and owning and resolving issues.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, MS Project and MS Visio preferred.
• Ability to rapidly learn new software and systems.

$100,000 - $140,000 a year

FLSA: Exempt

Abzena is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

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