Associate Director, TPPM

Major accountabilities:

• Represent TRD function to participate China Program Team and contribute to the project strategy development ensuring all assigned activities successfully implemented in line with agreed project plan.
• Actively participate and fully integrate into global TRD sub-teams and ensure the project strategy for China specific activities as part of global project plan.
• Support the development of junior co-workers in the team.
• Ensure the committed deliverables for all responsible projects, networks and/or platforms are timely delivered in good quality and full quantity.
• Provides all necessary support to help address and resolve issues. Identifies solutions for remediation in Development China / BR China portfolio.
• Actively contribute to a strong team spirit and the growth of team founded on technical ability, excellence in performance and exhibiting the Novartis values and behaviors.
• Leads CMC special projects and initiatives.
• Highlight the need for training programs, support the establishment of technical and professional skills for the team, and ensure staff training is conducted and properly documented.
• Ensures high quality communication and information flow on status of CMC activities to stakeholders mitigates and manages risks.
• Proactively contribute in workload demand forecast. Ensure resources and resources needs awareness in projects, networks and/or platforms.

Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:

• Strong technical background in DP formulation development  with pharmaceutical education background
• Solid Project Management Skills.
• Collaborating across boundaries.
• 5-8 year hands-on experience in lab or other development organization
  Overall >10 years experience in Pharmaceutical Industry

Skills:

• Problem Solving Skills.
• Project Management.
• R&D.

Languages :

• English.