Passion for Innovation. Compassion for Patients.
With over 120 years of experience and more than 17,000 employees in over 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo is dedicated to discovering, developing, and delivering new standards of care that enrich the quality of life around the world.
In Europe, we focus on two areas: The goal of our Specialty Business is to protect people from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Europe, and help patients who suffer from it to enjoy every precious moment of life. In Oncology, we strive to become a global pharma innovator with competitive advantage, creating novel therapies for people with cancer.
Our European headquarters are in Munich, Germany, and we have affiliates in 13 European countries and Canada.
We are seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the position:
PROJECT MANAGER – Medical Affairs Oncology
Oncology Business Division (OBD)
Daiichi Sankyo Italy, Milan based
THE POSITION:
The candidate will be reporting into the Italian Medical Director and will serve the Medical Department. The role will serve to support the medical team in project management and optimization of the planned activities across the therapeutic areas, including administrative part, being responsible for planning, monitoring and managing operational projects/tasks from initiation through completion. As a special project, the new resource will manage the overall implementation of the medical information process within the affiliate (based on EU and local requirements) and will act as FPOC for answering oncology med info inquiries.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Project management:
1. Manage all the operational activities related to medical projects to ensure on-time completion according to prioritization, specifications and within budgeted costs/resources (in alignment with Therapeutic area lead/med adv/managers):
2. Procurement processes in SAP including fact-checking and approval of electronic invoices
3. Support of Budget and Forecast processes
4. Initiating PR of based on quotes/contracts
5. Tracking POs in the system and supporting status enquiries from the team
6. Support in contract preparation, sending out and tracking of contracts, contract filing (online and DSE archive) - preparation of transparency lists a.o.
7. Liaise with TAL/medical managers/advisors to ensure the agreed timelines and milestones are adequately respected
8. Conduct project team meetings to align the relevant internal stakeholders on the progresses of each activity in accordance with the agreed plan in order to obtain and maintain their buy-in.
9. Ensures compliance with applicable company procedures/processes for all the activities/projects directly supervised
10. Ensure the correct use of the DS systems and tools.
11. Assist the medical director and TAL/ medical manager/advisor in the organization of the internal meetings supporting, if needed, the preparation of presentations and minutes
12. Provide support to medical affairs activities related to the collection and internal evaluation of support requests for independent research proposals (both clinical/preclinical) being responsible for organizing regular meetings, collecting needed materials and following up on identified operational actions
13. Support the internal/external audit (if needed and requested) finding the materials uploaded in the correct folders/systems