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Job Description
Job Summary: Develop and execute a multi-year sourcing strategy to expand external partner capabilities and flexibility across R&D organization at Organon.
This role will manage activities in support of outsourced scope of work, ensuring efficient and effective delivery of high-quality research activities globally. The incumbent will have a working knowledge of clinical trial operations, outcomes research, outsourcing, and project/program management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support vendor onboarding and facilitate execution of sourced scope of work.
- Manage outsourced activities efficiently and on-time, identifying and escalating issues related to delivery of high-quality materials and/or services.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external parties to ensure best possible delivery of sourced submission work through clearly defined objectives and performance tracking.
- Develop and improve new capabilities and services with assigned vendors, and assess and improve existing capabilities and processes.
- Support annual business planning and analysis of external partner expenditures.
Required Education, Experience and Skills:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in pharmaceutical research and development.
- Experience working in a drug development outsourced model, with ability to translate learnings to clinical and medical affairs outsourcing model.
- Basic experience with leading successful delivery of projects, including pipeline, business improvement, and/or change management projects.
- Knowledgeable of clinical operations and study management, medical affairs operations, and/or outcomes research studies for pharmaceutical products, vaccines, and/or biologic products.
- Good negotiation, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in matrix organizational structures.
- At least 3-5 years of working experience with or within a healthcare/life sciences industry project management, clinical operations, or medical affairs function that includes working with external partners.
- Prior experience and understanding of vendor selection/management for interventional and non-interventional clinical studies.
- Understanding of the requirements and nature of outcomes research using real-world data.
- Travel may be required (10%).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clearly and concisely.
- Strong interpersonal skills in difficult situations.
- Ability to work seamlessly with all levels of personnel.
- Demonstrated sensitivity and knowledge of cultural differences with experience in multi-country, multi-cultural environments and demonstrated success with cross-geographically based cultural collaborations.
- Excellent word processing, Share Point, Excel, e-mail, and online meeting tool skills.