Director, Project Management

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. For more information, visit www.azurity.com . Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azurity's success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do. We seek highly motivated individuals with the dedication, integrity, and creative spirit needed to thrive in our organization. Brief team/department description: Azurity develops unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, to serve overlooked patients. This role is with Azurity R&D project management team, which coordinates cross-functional planning, development and tracking of project plans, considering time, cost, quality and strategy. As we grow and expand, we are building new capabilities to make our processes simpler, faster, and more efficient. We are looking for a dynamic, change-inspired leader, to lead R&D project management, and process improvement initiatives. This role will report to the R&D head and act as an internal consultant operating from Azurity’s Hyderabad development center. The role holder provides input on resource (budget, headcount) strategy and support in setting the yearly product delivery KPI. This role will be responsible for managing the R&D Project Management department, defining, and implementing R&D Project Management processes. Holds the overall responsibility in the R&D PM team for ensuring Project Plans, Budgets, Timelines are tracked against baseline and updated as per the Program Management process. Ensure project plan alignment with portfolio and product lifecycle management (PLM) goals. The role holder will lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance R&D productivity and streamline product development processes through targeted process improvements, tool evaluation, and vendor coordination. This role acts as the functional lead to ensure that technology-enabled solutions align closely with evolving R&D needs, leveraging a strong working knowledge of pharmaceutical R&D workflows, data and applicable concepts to effectively coordinate with external vendors, internal data science and digital teams. This role focuses on functional leadership and facilitation, responsible for working with the Chief Scientific Officer and science department heads to ensure streamlined processes are in place for meeting yearly KPIs, identifying process improvement & simplification opportunities. The scope includes financial governance, reporting, resource planning, and process improvement. An ideal candidate will have experience with leading complex programs within the pharmaceutical development lifecycle, in addition to experience with CMO/CRO/lab operations. A deep understanding of project plans, budgeting / forecasting is a key attribute. This is a collaborative role involving significant engagement with cross-functional heads (such as Quality, finance, accounting, legal and IT), to drive programs and ensure adoption. This role will have the exciting and unique opportunity to drive Management System excellence and adoption within our growing Hyderabad organization. The ideal candidate will be a quick learner who can work in an extremely fast paced organization and pivot from one objective to the next quickly. Principle Responsibilities: A) Lead project management Enable preparation and management of CSO-R&D budget, yearly KPIs and project plans. Enable project managers to identify, document and manage critical path activities. Review project plans, challenge project schedule baseline and assumptions. Ensure project managers have defined all activities with appropriate timelines, costs, risks and mitigation plans aligned with the project stakeholders. Through the project managers, prepare month-on-month project forecasts and manage CSO-level variance between forecast vs. actual within thresholds. Facilitate budget decisions and deliverables throughout the yearly cycle. Support the R&D head and science department heads in articulating decisions required, risks and layout options at appropriate level of depth to enable decisions. Enable project plan updation in A3 templates for all projects. Support the Franchise Portfolio Management and finance leadership with timeline, and cost evaluations when requested. Responsible for project status reporting to R&D scientific leadership team (SLT), Strategic Portfolio Management and other project stakeholders as required. Maintain management information systems on budget, timelines, key risks, and decisions. Partner with the finance leadership and co-own the Long-Range Budget forecast, responsible for R&D opex, capex, and product-level development cost. Align science department leadership on the stage-wise Probability of Technical & Regulatory success. B) Management systems & processes: Continuously improve the contract and purchase order (PO) management process for R&D, through a periodic review of SLA and goals with the legal and finance teams Facilitate regular and ad hoc project team meetings, ensuring documentation of agendas, minutes, and actions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (internal/external) to track key performance indicators Develop/maintain collaboration and nurture relationships with internal partner functions and external entities