Sr Associate, Resource Demand

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Sr Associate, Resource Demand

Thessaloniki

JOB SUMMARY

Senior Associate, Resource Management provides operational resource support to the Resource & FSP Strategy team in the support of the Research, Development and Commercial portfolios are properly planned and understood to facilitate informed decision-making and allocation of resources based on business priorities.

Contributes to the achievement of business strategies and goals by supporting the Resource Strategy & Operations Organization to enable and enhance operational performance through effective forecasting, planning management of organizational resources, the development of tools and processes to effectively assess resources, both internal and external through Functional Service Providers.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensures potential resource capacity issues (shortfalls) are surfaced and discussed in a timely fashion.
• Utilizes business-specific portfolio and project information to facilitate portfolio and resource planning reviews and deliver the Annual Operating Plan.
• Produce business performance dashboards and key metrics utilizing advanced visualizations and appropriate communications that effectively illustrate data trends
• Supports multiple aspects of resource and clinical development cost management including data transformation, analysis, and reporting
• Supports the development, maintenance and analysis of clinical trial cost and resource metrics to increase accuracy in assumptions in planning.
• Support the delivery of holistic view of resource capacity and allocation across business functional areas.
• Supports high-impact cross functional special projects that improve our business in the short and long term.
• For certain functional areas support the assessment of quarterly Functional Service Provider (FSP) Resource Demand Plan keying on relevant business drivers to justify resource projections, summarize changes, performs and delivers analyses summarizing forecast changes and communicates to finance and budgetary stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Leadership Skills & Thought Partnering: Role models Sponsor's Leader Behaviors with integrity and credibility.
• Network & Alliance Building: Ability to be a trusted partner across lines and through tiers of the organization. Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Continuous Improvement: Works with other team members to develop a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Functional & Technical Skills: Knowledge of relevant business systems, processes and information that is applied to do the job at a high level of accomplishment.
• Planning/Organizing Skills: Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects to meet timelines; sets objectives and goals; breaks down work into the process steps; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks; measures performance against goals; evaluates results.
• Communication Skills: Ability to communicate business information in both verbal and written format.
• Problem Solving Skills: Uses logic and methods to solve problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers;
• Prior Experience/Attributes Preferred
• Must-Have:
• Bachelor's Degree plus Minimum 2+ years of experience in business operations, resource management and/or project management discipline. Masters Preferred.
• Experience in use of project, resource and budget management application systems in a business environment.
• Strong influencing and team skills, including demonstrated experience in supporting and/or contributing to successful projects.
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills with the ability to be flexible and prioritize multiple demands.
• Experience in the collection, analyzing, interpreting and reporting of business, financial or resource information.
• Experience using project and/or resource management systems and reporting tools (e.g., Microsoft Excel,Microsoft Project, Business Objects, Spotfire, Planisware (preferred), etc.)
• Strong communications skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to effectively handle multiple and diverse business support work assignments under pressure.
• Strong team player with the ability to engage functional experts across Global Product Development, and Business Categories
• Nice to Have:
• Proven ability to negotiate, influence and problem solve. Strong portfolio and resource planning acumen; analytical and strategic problem solving capabilities. Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to understand and value different customer needs and provide tailored services where necessary; demonstrated customer service mentality and focus to successfully manage a customer-facing role.
• Demonstrated ability to implement tools and techniques in the project and resource management discipline.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry or an understanding of the pharmaceutical drug development process and operating model a plus.
• Demonstrated understanding of the both the Early and Late stage drug development process portfolio management and resource planning
• Familiarity with Clinical Trial execution, Regulatory and/or Safety organizations