Associate Director, CMC Project Management

Adaptimmune is a fast paced, exciting cell therapy company that is currently growing to meet its expanding portfolio. An exciting position has become available in our Project Management department, for a CMC/Manufacturing Project Manager to focus on our late-stage products.
We are looking for a motivated, experienced Project Manager with strong experience in CMC/Manufacturing, who can adapt to a fast-changing business.
This role will be assigned to primarily late phase oncology clinical development projects, focusing on operational execution and delivery of Chemistry, Manufacturing & Control (CMC) related deliverables, including T-Cell, vector and quality work packages. As and when required the role will provide support to early phase projects and other non-CMC deliverables.
Key Responsibilities

• Technical and strategic understanding of the CMC project team’s work packages.
• Ensure CMC functional leads are actively engaged with the CMC project team members responsible for the execution of deliverables and driving timely execution of each work package.
• Ensure real-time update and maintenance of the detailed CMC Project Plans/ timelines.
• Ensure key timeline shifts (positive or negative shifts) are escalated to Product Program/Project Lead and Program Manager.
• Ensure issues are actively assessed and, as necessary, remediation plans are built and executed to resolve issue or lessen impact of issue.
• Ensure mitigation plans are built for identified key risks and mitigation plans are executed accordingly.
• Drives regular lessons learned sessions to help share learnings throughout the business.
• Work with CMC Project Leader and CMC Project team members to ensure positive team spirit and high functioning project team.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare related area or business
• Minimum 7-10 years of CMC, Pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience (preferably in both small and large companies)
• 3-5 years of drug development project management experience
• MS/MBA or PhD preferred
• Project Management Professional(PMP)® or Prince 2 certification
• Experience with late phase CMC projects

At Adaptimmune we embrace diversity and equality of opportunity. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or other legally protected category. It is our intent that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

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Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: Multiple Locations