Associate Project Manager Vadodara or Mumbai, India (3 days office/2 days home) Salary: Competitive + Benefits + Bonus If you are an agile, committed, and innovative project support professional with experience of project planning in a pharmaceutical or corporate environment, then we want to hear from you! Join us to help improve peoples' lives and make healthcare better for everyone! Why Pharmanovia? Pharmanovia is a dynamic, fast-growing international pharmaceutical company with a portfolio of over 20 brands across more than 140 markets. Our mission is to improve patient health globally through the revitalisation of niche, tried-and-trusted medicines. Our core behaviours are:

• We act decisively but we never compromise on quality.
• We keep our promises and do as we say.
• We value our heritage and foster an entrepreneurial spirit.
• We reinvest in our future - in our products, our brands, and our people.
• We give back to our communities.

Since its inception in 2013, Pharmanovia has grown consistently year on year, focusing on delivering high-quality branded prescription medicines to patients, prescribers, and healthcare providers across the world. Our growth has enabled the company to reinvest in its products, brands, people, and to give back to its communities. A people business with a strong, supportive culture that encourages innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, our team comprises over 300 employees and 29 nationalities, operating from offices in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, U.A.E., India, Singapore, Italy, and South Korea. We are an agile, committed, and innovative global specialty pharma business and a preferred partner for innovator pharma companies, instigating a paradigm shift in the life cycle management of iconic medicines. We seek to extensively engage with clinical communities to communicate product improvements and prioritise environmental, social, and governance considerations across the business and workforce. Pharmanovia's therapeutic areas include Cardiovascular, Oncology, Endocrinology and Neurology. About the role: The Project Management Office (PMO) at Pharmanovia is an excellent pool of passionate, fast-paced and enthusiastic Project Managers. We lead projects for various products by managing interaction with cross functional teams like Technical, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Supply Chain and Contract Manufacturing Organisation. We love problem solving and we continue to raise benchmark by successful delivery of projects. The key to our success is our ability to create interactive plans, monitor and control through project management tools. This role reports directly into the Project Manager/Senior Project Manager, and will require excellent organisational, analytical and project planning skills to support project management activities. The department has an ethos of continuous improvement, refining systems and creating efficiencies. This, along with the rapid growth of the business, leads to a varied and dynamic working environment. Main responsibilities & duties:

• Support Project Managers/Senior Project Manager in project management activities
• Manage Technical Transfer projects within Pharmanovia
• Carry out daily project-related activities including maintenance of project plan, in coordination with the Pharmanovia team
• Plan, track and monitor technical and regulatory project plans to meet within the pre-defined project timelines, to meet business goals and objectives
• Work closely with members of Project Management Office to adopt similar robust project management tools to ensure consistency in approach across the projects
• Collaborate, and escalate if required, to stakeholders within the business to ensure key project deliverables are achieved in timely manner
• Create and deliver project plans in alignment with the cross-functional teams
• Deliver assigned projects from end-to-end to stringent timelines
• Work on escalation and plan for mitigation action
• Set up regular meetings for key project workstreams to facilitate knowledge exchange between team members and follow-up on actions
• Hold cross-functional teams to account on actions on deliverables
• Update and maintain project management tools, such as tracker, project plan, decision logs, etc on a regular basis
• Organise and lead meetings both internally and externally, preparing agendas, taking minutes, recording action and follow up on actions.
• Organise and lead regular connects with CMOs for project update, cross functional update, and issue mitigation
• Report progress on projects on a weekly basis to line manager, and also on a regular basis to the Executive team

About you: Candidates with project planning experience in a pharma or corporate environment will be likely to have the skills required to be successful in this role. We are also looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
• Project management certification (e.g., APM, PMP, Prince 2) is desirable
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Great IT skills, including all MS packages: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams
• Well-organised and able to manage multiple tasks, stakeholders and work streams
• Ability to manage workload effectively and to deadlines
• Flexible, with ability to work on own initiative
• Proven team player, with ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Good interpersonal, motivational, leadership and influencing skills
• Helpful and approachable nature, with ability to mentor junior employees and enhance colleague performance
• Second/multiple language skills are desirable

What we offer: We offer a competitive salary plus bonus and rewards package including holiday, health & wellbeing program, employee recognition awards, social events, pension scheme and hybrid working.