Program Coordinator

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences 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!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical organisation, based in Zuid-Holland Netherlands.

The Company

Our client is one of the largest global players in the pharmaceutical industry. They deeply care for their customers, and therefore thrive on responsibilities, quality and achieving results. Having intensive contact with a wide variety of healthcare professionals, this multinational is able to conduct meaningful research and development activities, really fitting customer's needs. You can be one of the professionals contributing to the success story!

Role Description

As a program coordinator (PC) you are responsible for a smooth overall process and communication between a variety of teams, tailored to support R&D (compound development teams). You will assist the Program Management Leader (PML). In this role, you will also help Project Management and Clinical Teams. The PC creates and communicates timeline, FTE and OOP reports to teams and management. A part of this entails creating and reviewing the project critical path analyses to ensure schedule risk is communicated and addressed by the teams. Planning skills, aligning and tracking cross-functional timelines are essential in this role.

Responsibilities

- Maintaining cross-functional project plans, team reports and resource management support
- Assist the PML in aligning R&D activities and supporting Compound Development Teams
- Conducting contingency planning & scenario analyses and propose strategies to keep projects on track
- Provide regular reports and analysis on resource demand and supply
- Support Clinical teams - area's of Clinical Pharmacology, bio-statistics, programming, R&D Ops support, QA and QC)
- Facilitating critical path analyses, contingency planning/scenario analyses, and propose strategies and solutions to
modify schedules to keep the projects on track in collaboration with the PML.

Requirements

* Detailed knowledge of project planning, tracking, resource management, project planning, scheduling tools, and cross-project analyses is required
* Deep understanding of clinical development and trial execution is required
* 5 years of industry experience is required
* 3 years of drug development experience is required
* Planisware or MS project experience is preferred
* Masters degree in relevant field preferred (at least Bachelor's degree required)
* Project Management Certificate preferred

Other information

For this role, relevant working experience is preferred over an extensive academic track record. Although holding a Bachelor's degree is the minimum required, having project planning, project management or program coordinator experience within the pharma industry is preferred for this role.

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