Senior Manager Resource Management

About the Role

The Senior Manager, Resource Management (RM) partners with multiple functions in Research and Preclinical Development (RpD) to assess capacity, workload, and resource information. They proactively plan and allocate resources, identify potential gaps, and propose solutions. This role requires an in-depth understanding of pharmaceutical development, discovery, pre-clinical development, and early development functional roles, responsibilities, and work effort.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the interface and point of contact between Resource Management (RM) and RpD/Translational Medicine functions for reviewing and assessing functional resource strategies.
• Assesses available resources against requirements and confirms resource plans with functional leadership.
• Works with partner functions to verify study, project, and program assumptions and ensures optimized resource utilization.
• Partners with applicable functions to design, develop, implement, and update algorithms for resource demand forecasts.
• Ensures cross-functional consistency in resource and headcount management and reporting.
• Delivers regular and ad-hoc resource reports, including forecasted demand, capacity, gap analyses, and FTE planned vs. actuals.
• Maintains and monitors resource capacity, allocation, and forecast data in the resource management system.
• Proactively identifies and communicates resource-related gaps, issues, and risks to partner functions.
• Collaborates with business partners to deliver, maintain, and update RM processes, guidelines, and templates.
• Works with data analytics and IT to provide business requirements and subject-matter input on dashboards and metrics.
• Performs program- and function-level scenario analyses and supports the Director on portfolio-level scenarios.
• Ensures data quality for the quarterly budget reforecast, coordinating with Finance and the Director.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science, finance, or engineering.
• Experience in the Biotech/Pharmaceutical/CRO industry.
• Adept at managing limited resources against a constantly changing portfolio.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and manage multiple priorities in a highly matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Effective communication, influencing, and negotiating skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to build relationships internally and externally.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite and Resource Management Tools/Systems.
• Detail-oriented and capable of working independently.

Preferred Qualifications

• Flexible and adaptable, with a refined ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Self-starter with initiative and the ability to drive business forward.
• Experience implementing RM processes in Planisware and reporting in Tableau.
• Experience working within or across drug development functions, including Clinical Operations, Project/Program Management, Strategic Resource Planning, Business Analyst, or Finance.

Location

Primary Location: Tarrytown, NY
Additional Locations: Cambridge, MA

Pay

Salary Range (annually): $134,400.00 - $219,200.00