Senior Director, Program Management

What You'll Do

• Partner with the Program Executive to lead the global Program Team and drive strategy and execution for assigned programs
• Partner with Clinical Development sub-team lead and other functional leaders to drive operational execution and integrate sub-team activities into the broader program strategy
• Drive matrix team performance, alignment, and communication through effective leadership and disciplined use of Vir Biotechnology’s tools, processes, and team norms
• Build, maintain, and govern integrated global cross-functional program timelines that highlight dependencies, milestones, deliverables, decision points, and critical path activities
• Develop and support portfolio-level timelines as needed
• Ensure data integrity and accurate reporting across timelines and other team tools and processes to support informed decision-making and reliable inputs for annual budgets, reforecasts, and long-range planning
• Define program milestones, decision points, inflection points, and deliverables in partnership with the Program Executive and senior leadership and develop scenario-based plans and decision trees
• Communicate with governance committees and functional leaders to address program needs, risks, resource requirements, and recommendations, and help teams navigate organizational decision-making effectively
• Identify and leverage interdependencies across short-, mid-, and long-term program plans, and advise teams on risks and opportunities to accelerate development
• Lead effective meetings and information management by prioritizing the right topics, achieving meeting objectives, communicating decisions and risks to key stakeholders, and ensuring timely completion of action items
• Bridge strategy and execution at the program level by managing risks, aligning diverse disciplines, and navigating complexity
• Drive innovation by identifying opportunities and implementing solutions that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the PPM function
• Champion continuous improvement and project management excellence across Vir Biotechnology by contributing to the development and refinement of standard processes, systems, and tools

Who You Are And What You Bring

• Proven success leading high-performing cross-functional teams through the drug development process, ideally including registrational trials and marketing applications (NDA, BLA, MAA) through approval
• Significant practical experience with project management methodologies, concepts, techniques, and tools
• Strong technical proficiency with Smartsheet is required, as well as SharePoint site creation and management
• PMP certification or advanced project management training is preferred