Manager, Portfolio & Capacity Management

Job Title: Manager portfolio & Capacity Management

The Portfolio and Capacity Management (P&C) Team sits within the Chief Operating Office in the Oncology R&D business unit. The Manager, Portfolio & Capacity Management is a member of the P&C Team and is primarily responsible for data quality, maintenance and analysis, contributing to the development of new analytical models to support portfolio & capacity management. The Manager, Portfolio & Capacity Management may serve as a point of contact on all portfolio and capacity tools, training and processes.

Resposibilities:

• Supports analysis of portfolio demand, resource capacity, and other areas of need within business performance management
• Establishes effective partnerships with key stakeholders
• Maintain data integrity & quality in portfolio demand and resource data to enable effective portfolio and capacity analytics, including (but not limited to) reconciliation of data across systems, actuals vs. planned, FTE tracking, etc.
• Actively contributes to the identification and implementation of process simplification opportunities
• Drive MYTIME (R&D time tracking tool) compliance; improve data quality and reporting/analytics capabilities
• Maintain CAPIT (R&D resource planning tool Headcount/ Vacancies) accuracy and alignment with Finance’s FTE tracking tool
• Designs and maintains data models and visualization methods to provide effective modelling and reporting which enables robust capacity balancing discussions and decisions

Essential:

• Self-starter requiring little oversight or prioritization support
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in relevant discipline
• Ability to assimilate complex information and identify key issues and messages
• Experience of communicating complex information in both verbal and written form
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and multitask
• Experience of working effectively in global teams in an international environment
• Strong customer focus
• Highly numerate, supported by strong computing skills.
• Analytical and data management expertise.

Desirable:

• Degree or equivalent experience in business and or scientific discipline.
• Business Strategy and Portfolio operational experience
• Exposure to or experience of Portfolio and Capacity Management, analytics and modelling in a drug development environment.Demonstrated experience of Portfolio and Capacity Management analytical tools, including PLANIT, CAPIT, MYTIME, PowerBI.
• Knowledge of portfolio management processes