Operations Manager

4 weeks ago


Sheffield, United Kingdom Certara Full time

Overview

About Certara
Certara accelerates medicines using proprietary biosimulation software, technology and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Its clients include more than 2,000 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions and regulatory agencies across 62 countries.

Certara provides high-quality, regulatory-compliant pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) analyses and modeling for regulatory submission packages. With the largest global team of PhD, PharmD and MD consultants, we leverage quantitative methods to build a comprehensive knowledge-base of drug discovery, pre-clinical, early-phase clinical, literature, and competitor data, which can be used to optimize decisions, including the “go/no go” that will lead to commercial activities.

We have an immediate opening for a Research and Development (R&D) Operations Manager to assist with the smooth execution of R&D activities in the Simcyp science team directly reporting to Senior Vice President of R&D. The role is responsible for monitoring, coordination, arranging logistics , process analysis and improvement around various R&D activities conducted by the PBPK science team (currently contains ~60 people).

Qualified candidates will have experience working with sizable team of scientists, involved in R&D activities, product owners, business and support teams as well as external contacts and clients. The candidate should have a reasonable appreciation of research and development activities specifically related to developing innovative products and services.

Ideal candidates will have a degree level scientific qualification and several years of experience in research operation management.


Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain and monitor project plans and schedules and communicate these to all relevant stakeholder
  • Document progress and holdups/deviations on a weekly basis
  • In close collaboration with teams and project leads, coordinate the work of scientists ensuring any delays are minimised
  • Identify and highlight project risks and communicate them to management
  • Assist in the development of appropriate metrics to measure progress
  • Have high attention to detail, strong organizational skills and a flexible approach to work
  • Liaise with relevant areas and functions across the company and external parties required
  • Identify and implement process improvements to ensure more effective program execution
  • Assist in developing appropriate metrics to measure project progress.
  • Adapt flexibly to changing work requirements and assist with implementing process changes
  • Work with the software developer project managers to ensure efficient project delivery
  • Provide training to the Science team on project management tools

Qualifications

  • University degree level, in a relevant discipline with several years of practical experience
  • Experience with research and development activities with some understanding of software/product development lifecycle
  • Proficiency with MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams, SharePoint and other relevant tools, familiarity with Azure DevOps will be advantageous
  • Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences
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