Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is with one of our Biotech clients who researches develop and commercializes drugs. The company focuses primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza, including Harvoni and Sovaldi.
Job Title: Project Manager (Director Level), Medical Affairs
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Remote
Job Description:
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Position Summary
The Project Manager will serve as a strategic and operational partner responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing Medical Affairs initiatives across a therapeutic area or major program. This role ensures that complex, cross-functional projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with Medical Affairs strategy. The Project Manager collaborates closely with Medical Affairs leaders, Medical Scientists, Clinical Development, Evidence Generation, Publications, Medical Operations, Compliance, Commercial, and other cross-functional stakeholders to drive effective planning, governance, communication, and execution of key initiatives. This role enables Medical Affairs leaders and scientific teams to focus on external engagement, evidence generation, and medical strategy by ensuring that critical initiatives are executed efficiently, compliantly, and with measurable impact across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Execution
- Lead end-to-end project management for Medical Affairs initiatives, programs, and strategic priorities.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
- Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
- Facilitate project governance and decision-making processes.
- Ensure alignment of project activities with organizational objectives and Medical Affairs plans of action (POA).
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Coordinate activities across Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, and other functional teams.
- Drive effective communication among stakeholders to ensure alignment and accountability.
- Facilitate cross-functional meetings, workshops, and working sessions.
- Resolve barriers and escalate issues appropriately to maintain project momentum.
Strategic Planning & Operations
- Support development and execution of therapeutic area strategic plans and annual POAs.
- Assist in prioritization of initiatives and resource planning.
- Manage project budgets, forecasting, and tracking of expenditures.
- Develop project dashboards, metrics, and status reports for leadership review.
Medical Affairs Program Support
- Coordinate execution of:
- Advisory boards.
- Congress planning and post-congress activities.
- Medical education initiatives.
- Evidence generation programs.
- Insight collection and reporting.
- Launch and lifecycle management activities.
- Training and development programs.
- Ensure operational excellence and consistency across Medical Affairs processes and activities.
Governance, Compliance & Process Improvement
- Ensure project activities comply with company policies and healthcare regulations.
- Support inspection readiness and documentation requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve Medical Affairs processes, ways of working, and operational efficiency.
- Implement best practices in project management and stakeholder engagement.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree (Life Sciences, Healthcare, Business, or related field) of relevant experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or life sciences project/program management.
- Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, MS, PharmD, PhD) with 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex cross-functional projects.
- Strong planning, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with project management tools and reporting systems.
Preferred
- Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, MSc, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent).
- Experience within Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, or Medical Operations.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or similar project management certification.
- Experience supporting launch, evidence generation, congress, or strategic planning activities.
Success Factors
- Strong strategic thinking coupled with exceptional execution skills.
- Ability to manage complexity and competing priorities.
- Excellent collaboration and influencing capabilities.
- High attention to detail and accountability.
- Ability to build relationships and effectively navigate matrix organizations.
- Strong business acumen and organizational savvy.
- A proactive, solution-oriented mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | NULL, NULL (Remote) |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $160–$192 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
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