Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Excellent employment opportunity for a Program Manager in the Gaithersburg, MD area.
• Support end to end strategic planning for their assigned TA
• Primary duties include project management, training evaluation and reporting, identifying budget effectiveness strategies, program logistics, as well as organizational development.
• Ensure training and development standards are met for the assigned TA by cultivating strategic partnerships and ensuring all learners receive a consistent, best-in-class training experience to enhance the knowledge and skills required in the field.
• Provide standards development and oversight of those learning standards to both the internal OTD team as well as helping to enforce those standards with learners and their mangers.
• Oversee program management for assigned therapeutic area(s) asset development and deployment process ensuring timelines are on track and programs and effectively and efficiently rolled out to the field.
• Oversee executive reporting and analytics for their assigned therapeutic area(s) on an ongoing basis.
• Conducts program evaluation of training programs for their assigned TA to ensure effectiveness and that business needs were met by using a Kirkpatrick evaluation methodology.
• Provide strategic planning and training solutions that better the business and ensure best-in-class training programs are implemented across the salesforce as directed by TA needs.
• Provides strategic communication plans for assigned therapeutic area(s) as well as executes those communications through OTD mailbox, LMS system, or coordinating with business unit managers.
• Oversees training content asset management for assigned therapeutic area(s) and the knowledge management of those materials in the OTD master repository.
• Serves as lead LMS content administrator for assigned therapeutic area(s).
• Partners with the Learning Transformation & Operational Excellence team to leverage OTD wide systems and processes to ensure pull through in their assigned TA
• Researches, develops and disseminates best practices in adult learning, learner engagement, program evaluation, and organizational development.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
  3 - 5 years' experience in the field of training, adult learning, operations management, or organizational development***
• Advanced degree in industrial organizational psychology, MBA, or a related field preferred
• Five (5) or more years' experience preferred
• Experience in a pharmaceutical business environment***
• Knowledge of instructional systems design preferred
• Experience in global markets preferred
• Project management experience
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment
• Strong project management skills -- someone who can help organize/map out critical deliverables, then track those deliverables
• Knowledge Management capabilities
• IT Saavy -- strong experience with MS Suite; aptitude to become familiar with internal company applications
• Learning Management System (LMS) experience
• Strong customer-facing skills
• Analytical (basic BA skills)
• Credible understanding of company disease areas to align business acumen concepts with the impacts of therapeutic applications
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills to author content; translate and communicate business concepts
• Strong project management skills; with demonstrated ability to focus on effective planning of submission of project deliverables and adherence to project milestones and final deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to utilize widely-known business software applications (e.g. MS Office Suite) to organize, analyze and synthesize information