Associate Director, Program Management

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Director, Innovation Evaluation, as the Associate Director, Program Management you will have overall responsibility for leading an integrated set of projects including initiating, defining, planning, implementing and closing out assigned projects. You will ensure that the overall project structure and management processes enable the component teams to successfully complete their work and that the components' deliverables can be integrated into the overall product, service, results and/or benefits.

This is a hybrid role, which offers a combination of an onsite and remote work schedule. #LI-hybrid

The Role:

• Lead and direct large-scale, global, cross-functional high value projects with diverse CSL Plasma project teams, according to CSL Plasma strategic and operational priorities.
• Project manage process/technology related initiatives with a keen understanding of interdependencies.
• Responsible for an integrated view of projects or initiatives within a program, including Time, Cost, Performance (Scope) milestones, Resources and Issue, Risk and Opportunity dependencies that could impact the delivery of a project.
• Implement effective business transformation processes, including training and user adoption of related process and technology solutions.
• Assure team and internal/external stakeholder communication, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues to manage expectations on all requirements and deliverables.
• Execute the project work of monitoring and controlling of Time, Cost and Performance (Scope) against actuals, and the identification, reporting and resolution of all significant variances where they exist.

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree is required or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Project management certification / training desirable.
• 5+ years in the plasma industry.
• 5+ years demonstrated experience leading multi-functional teams or complex projects.
• Strong strategic planning, quantitative, and decision analysis capabilities.
• Strong project management and integration skills; ability to coordinate all aspects of a project.
• Demonstrated experience in developing, managing, and controlling cross-functional project budgets.

• Overnight travel required up to 75% of the time.
• Fast paced environment with frequent interruptions.
• Ability to compute, analyze and interpret numerical data for reporting purposes.
• Ability to make decisions which have significant impact on the immediate work unit and monitor impact outside immediate work unit.
• Ability to compose materials such as detailed reports, work-related manuals, publications to limited scope or impact, etc. and/or to make presentations outside the immediate work area.
• Fast paced environment with frequent interruptions.