Lead PMO - Parenteral

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. is a leading multinational pharmaceutical company based across global locations and committed to providing affordable and innovative medicines for healthier lives. Ask any of the 20,000+ employees at Dr. Reddy’s why they come to work every day and you will unanimously hear: because ‘Good Health Can’t Wait.’

It is this spirit of dynamism, of playing to win, that is taking us to new heights.

As a company that was started by a scientist, Dr Reddy’s fosters a culture where scientific temperament is rooted in our people and our approach to research. Our research efforts are geared toward accelerating access to affordable and innovative medicines. We focus our work on being first to market with products that are difficult to make. Why? These tough-to-make products are likely to be very expensive, and our unique capabilities allow us to improve accessibility to them. Similarly, our patient-centric approach means we tend to focus on developing differentiated products that best address unmet patient needs.

At the heart of our research and development organization is our state-of-the-art R&D Center spread over 300,000 sq. ft. The Center houses over 70 laboratories and has over 800 research scientists working on various projects. This R&D Center works in close conjunction with other centers across the UK and the Netherlands.

Work at the R&D Center results in a wide-ranging suite of capabilities and services—from synthetic organic chemistry to formulations development; from intellectual property management to regulatory science; from polymorphism to bio-pharmaceutics. For our industry customers, we’re able to offer services and solutions for starting material, intermediates, active ingredients and finished-dosage forms. The success of our research organization can be judged by the fact that we have over 170 ANDAs, over 500 DMFs and 86 patents filed in the last five years.

Project Management:

• Maximizing the filings committed per FY and maximizing WIP milestones for a given FY. Aligning project plans with execution plans. Escalation, percolation mechanism for issue resolution on time in order to deliver on Project Milestones on time in full.
• Manage Injectables R&D projects & support allied business from product selection to approval
• To create product-wise and FY budget forecasts (PDC) and manage all projects to within the approved budgets
• Work with internal and external suppliers (materials and manufacturing) to enable on time filing & approval
• Build sustainable systems & processes for seamless project flow from introduction to filing & approval / launch
• Ensuring the S2L & online tools like Skelta are maintained intact for appropriate & accurate MIS

Program Management:

• Shaping up a project master plan and aligning Make Vs. buy decisions aligning teams, escalation, percolation mechanism for issue resolution on time.
• Conduct workshops periodically to align moving parts in Complex programs development and executions. Conduct Biweekly and technical reviews with Vertical Head, development teams and key stake holders to drive development and key decisions
• Early warning signals to Top management on slippages, prepare actions in the form of MoM and track the progress to keep program on track and for timely delivery.

Execution Excellence: 

• Identify areas of improvements during project execution & bring in the best of processes to aid in new product development, execution & filing
• Lead simplification of systems & processes in line with regulatory & compliance requirements wherever applicable and build robust systems & processes and Enable timely decisions on product development and business case.
• Planning and managing plant connect, internal FTO/CTO and external plants – macro (multi-year) to micro (day-wise) planning.
• Running New Product Governance Mechanism within R&D and across R&D and Plants to ensure OTIF delivery for all projects

PDC / Budget / CAPEX:

• Facilitate preparing of PDC & budgets for the FY (Including revisions in PDC) and managing products within budget to be cost competitive while delivering on the milestones
• Conduct periodic review and alignment of PDCs with development teams and Finance in order to sensitise the teams on overall cost competitiveness while delivering the committed milestones

Team Building & Mentoring:

• Share experience on projects (Ups & downs) with CFT build case studies & drive project group discussions, leverage best practices and build uniform PMO systems across IPDO. Mentoring, coaching & performance mgmt. of the teams.

Maximizing IPDO resource utilization and productivity: 

• Drive manpower utilization and productivity through insights from RAS-data analytics, project loading per HPT, expertise and experience wise loading for a project, and to de-bottleneck the "slow moving projects" by TOC approach in order to ensure maximum output at minimal cost.

Education & Experience :

• Post-Graduation in Science, Pharmacy / Engineering graduates preferably with an MBA and PMP certification.
• With over 14 years of experience in pharmaceutical Research and Development (R&D), Portfolio management, including 5 years of dedicated project management experience.
• Complete know-how of Pharma R&D value chain; aligning execution excellence in pharma industry; regulatory & IP landscape for various dosage forms & drug substance.
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Post-Graduation in Science, Pharmacy / Engineering graduates preferably with an MBA and PMP certification