Interim Program Manager (Contracts & Payments)

Location: Belgium

SIRE Life Sciences® is the market leader in life science recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continues innovation. We like technology, in a life science market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!

THE COMPANY

Our client is a professional Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical organization, based in Antwerpen Belgium.

The company aims at improving health of everyone around the world and to use science to prevent, intercept, treat and cure disease.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

This position is responsible for the overall management, coordination and planning of all programmes and projects.

You are responsible for managing clinical contracting and payments.

The Program Manager will be responsible for managing the collection of required information on all involved programmes and projects, the handling of the information and the reporting of the information to all relevant parties within the organisation.

The Program Manager is an expert in programme/ project management by years of experience in this profession. He/ she will assist the project managers of projects with tips and tricks in how to perform project management. It will be one of the more major tasks to act as an internal consultant that gives not only advice but also resolve specific questions on several project management situations occurring at that moment in time.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Management of the support function to the programme(s)/ project(s)

• Actively consider resource allocation across the separate streams and make any resourcing recommendations: make ranking decisions between processes if resources are scarce;
• Ensure that key users and any extended team members are used in the most efficient way (e.g. scheduling workshops at similar times).
• Prepare and monitor the overall plan by aggregating the individual programme and project plans;
• Ensuring overall integrity of the overall planning: inwardly on the internal consistency of the overall planning and outwardly on its coherence with the C&G goals and objectives;
• Ensuring effective management of dependencies and interfaces between projects and programmes that are supported: use the overview role to identify any critical paths across streams.
• Assist in the management of third party contributions to the programme(s)/ project(s);
• Maintain a program issues log and resolve any issues raised in a timely and effective way.
• Ensure that any project risks identified in the risk register are mitigated, dealt with effectively and brought to the attention of the appropriate stakeholders as defined in the communication policies.

Management of the reporting to the C&G organisation

• Ensuring effective communications within the programme(s)/ project(s) and to outside stakeholders and interested parties;
• Timely collect all information for reporting purposes;
• Meet every week and report formally to the C&G Director.
• Reporting progress at regular intervals to the C&G Director and his Leadership Team;
• Set and agree on milestones and key performance indicators with the Project Managers and report progress against these milestones regularly;

Operational assistance

• Just-in-time responsiveness to programme/ project needs (fire-fighting and problem solving for specific topics/ issues);
• Promote and organise knowledge sharing initiatives;
• Assist in project recovery when and where needed;
• Assist in the management of project financials (analysis of financial results).

Advisory

• Consulting and knowledge transfer on programme/ project management insights;
• Assist programme/ project managers in the start-up phase of the programme/ project;
• Upgrading programme/ project managers knowledge and skills by continuous knowledge transfer;
• Providing guidance to the programme and project management teams on tasks, task dependencies, techniques, deliverables and task roles;

• Projects:
o System implementation:
 iCertis: contract mgt system
 Medidata Payment: payment system
o Organisational changes
 Org redesign: BCP2C&G: transition of BCP organization into C&G
 Cross sector: integration of Medical Devices and Consumer contracting into C&G
o Process related projects
o Metrics

• Need for project manager across these project, to support planning, follow up, reporting to mgt, escalations, metrics …

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum bachelor degree
Fluent in English
Proven experience with program/project management in a complex organization
Experience with managing contracting and payments
Experience with system implementation and payment systems

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Rosa Markus.