Associate Director, Clinical Business Operations Management

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Supports the identification and prioritization of deliverables across clinical departments (i.e., Medical Writing, Biostatistics, Drug Safety, Clinical Science)., organizes cross-functional teams and tracks progress against goals and timelines
• Understands and advises on functional priorities within the context of enabling larger organizational success.
• Supports business planning, such as budget review, resource forecasting, goals review, etc.
• Supports business data collection and analysis, helps track delivery against corporate and department goals and collaborates with Department Heads on Quarterly Business Reviews
• Problem solves by leveraging understanding of business and functional relationships to activate right people and solutions.
• Spends time connecting individuals and teams within function, across functions and across the organization.
• Serves as a thought partner for vision and goal setting and partner with teams to drive functional short-to-long-term business planning and execution.
• Keeps Department meetings on track with focused agendas and objectives. Takes minutes and tracks deliverables as appropriate, follows up on deliverables as needed.
• Anticipates needs of CMO and Department Heads and prompts actions and conversations that enhances team success.
• Helps the CMO and Department Heads balance needs of the function and needs of the overall organization.
• Advises on new approaches to address organizational needs and complex challenges within Departments and broader organization
• Identifies opportunities to leverage synergies and eliminate redundancies, drives operational excellence, helps control spend
• Collaborates with PMO team to align on priorities, processes and tools
• Represents Clinical Organization in appropriate meetings and committees
• Must adhere to Iovance Biotherapeutics’ core values, policies, procedures, and business ethics.
• Perform miscellaneous duties as assigned.

Required Education, Skills, and Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent curriculum (life science, learning science or other relevant healthcare discipline is preferred, advanced degree such as MBA preferred).
• Minimum of 10 years in the pharmaceutical industry, responsibilities within a drug development organization with emphasis in Business and Project Management is preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including strong presentation skills
• Strong and proven project management skills and very organized
• Adept at fostering positive, transparent and productive relationships
• Adapts quickly to rapidly changing business demands
• Takes initiative to solve a wide range of difficult problems in creative ways
• Proven ability to challenge current business standards and processes, with the ability to propose solutions
• Embraces an enterprise mindset and is able to clearly connect functional activities to the broader organizational context.
• Proficient with skills in the following core business management areas:
  • Strategic planning
  • Business process management and improvement
  • Project management