Executive Director, Program Management

Amicus Therapeutics is a global, patient-dedicated biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing, and delivering high-quality medicines for people living with rare metabolic diseases.

Position Summary

The Executive Director, Program Management leads the Program Alignment Subteams (one for Galafold® and one for Pombiliti®+Opfolda®) and manages cross functional resource and alignment across ongoing development, post marketing commitments and evidence generation workstreams, with seamless handoff to the Brand Leadership Team for successful commercialization of products.

Working within the appropriate governance and processes, the Executive Director, Program Management drives cross-functional coordination for execution of development workstreams, in line with brand strategy set by Brand Leadership Teams, creates and monitors timelines and budgets and leads the relevant program teams to execute on the vision agreed to by governance.

The Executive Director, Program Management represents Program Management in the Brand Leadership Team. A Manager, Program Management provides support to the Executive Director, Program Management to manage meetings, dashboards, Gant charts, etc. 

Roles and Responsibilities

 1.          Leadership: Providing strategic leadership to the Program Alignment Subteams representing respective programs to key internal governance bodies.

2.           Planning, Documenting and Tracking: Works closely with Program Management team to drive program goals by ensuring creation/updates of Target Product Profiles and Development Plans to support product vision, documenting meeting outcomes including actions and decisions, and monitoring ongoing progress of deliverables.

3.           Leading, managing and providing expert guidance to the development workstreams by partnering with key stakeholders including but not restricted to CMC, Clinical, Clinical Operations, Regulatory, Patient Advocacy, IP/Legal, Finance.

4.           Risk Identification, Mitigation and Communication:  Scans workstreams to identify potential risks, oversee development of mitigation plans and communicate these in a timely fashion to relevant senior stakeholders (BLT, GBST).

5.           Budget Management:  Hold functional leads/business owners accountable for their spend by empowering Program Manager(s), to maintain spend levels in line with board-approved budget; reviews priorities and tradeoffs to maximize value-added spend for recommendation to governance.

6.           Governance: Represents Program Management at the Brand Leadership Teams (BLT). Defines program related agenda topics at BLT & ensures involvements of key stakeholders (label expansion, label updates, PMR/PMCs, etc.)

7.           Communication: Ensures effective, accurate and timely communication of key issues and progress to program team members, and other functions or governance committees as appropriate.

8.           Other responsibilities may be assigned as required.

Requirements

Educational Requirements

•            BS/MS required; MBA a plus.

•            PMP certification preferred.

Professional Work Experience Requirements

•            Minimum of 10 years of relevant program / brand management experience in drug development managing clinical stage programs (Ph 1 – 3) and commercialisation.  Other functional experience in drug development preferred (e.g. Clinical Operations, Regulatory Operations, Technical Operations, Global Marketing etc.).

Experience and Skills

•            Experience in program management and brand management.

•            Facility with tools and technology including MS Project/PowerPoint/Excel, SharePoint, teleconferencing platforms preferred.

•            Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. 

•            Able to work effectively in a cross-functional environment.

•            Detail-oriented and highly organized.

•            Works independently and under tight deadlines.

•            Comfort with ambiguity.

•            Able to resolve conflicts in a positive and collaborative manner.

•            Constantly looks for ways to improve (processes, own behaviors).

•            Able to manage up and down.

•            Self-awareness.

Other skills/Attributes

•            Demonstrated alignment with Amicus Mission Focus Behaviors

•            Passion for rare disease and patient focused

Travel

•            This role may require up to 15% travel, both domestic and international.

 

We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.  Our unique experiences, backgrounds and range of cultural perspectives enrich how we approach opportunities, pushing ideas as far and as fast as possible with patients always our top priority. Employee expertise, intelligence, and creativity drives our innovation, and our passion and commitment to excellence.  Our “Three Pillars of DEI” are interwoven into our Amicus culture and expands one person, one word, and one act at a time. For our employees, these three pillars are a touchstone for inspiration, guidance, and encouragement.

Amicus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will judge all applicants based on their qualifications for the job, without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, disability status or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

 

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