Program Manager, Neurology

The Program Manager is responsible for overseeing our Neurology programs (currently DaTscan and Vizamyl) and facilitating Neurology segment activities including launching a new product in a new category, managing multiple projects and workstreams that span across various departments. This role ensures strategic alignment across the organization, drives cross-functional collaboration, and prioritizes resources to meet launch timelines. The Program Manager focuses on the overall success of the program, ensuring that all individual projects are well-coordinated and contribute to the larger objectives. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Program Leadership: Oversee the entire product launch program, ensuring coordination of multiple cross-functional projects (marketing, regulatory, medical, supply chain, sales) to deliver on strategic goals.  

• Responsible for developing and managing cross functional, technology led, or product focused programs. Manages budgets and interfaces with contractors, suppliers, customers and internal functions. Manages program resource and budget allocation/integration. Manages schedule, budget, and tollgate process for NPI, requisition, or sustaining programs. Influences the programs to meet customer CTQs. 

• Strategic Alignment: Ensure the program’s objectives align with broader corporate goals, managing stakeholder expectations and providing regular updates to senior leadership.  

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Facilitate collaboration between functional leaders to ensure resource prioritization and timely decision-making.  

• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks that could impact the launch timeline or program success.  

• Program Governance: Establish governance frameworks to ensure consistent reporting, decision-making, and project execution across all workstreams.  

• Resource Allocation: Work with department heads to ensure the necessary resources are allocated across projects and that there is sufficient prioritization.  

• Performance Tracking: Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the overall program, ensuring all projects are on track and meet launch milestones.  

• Stakeholder Management: Communicate program status, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership, ensuring transparency and accountability across the organization.  

Key Capabilities:  

• Ability to understand strategy for segment and multiple key initiatives ensuring alignment with organizational goals.  

• Execution focus to ensure that all aspects of the multiple projects are executed to the plan.  

• Risk management skills to identify potential risks across projects, prioritize and develop mitigation and communication plans to handle risk. 

• Leadership for a group of project managers to lead team members toward a common goals. 

• Resource optimization to ensure people, dollars and time are allocated optimally across the organization.  

Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Science, Engineering or a related field, PMP or similar certification preferred. 

• 8+ years of project management, preferable in med tech, life science or pharma launches.  

• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical markets, including regulatory and market access environments.  

• Strong organizational skills and experience managing across functions.  

• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines.  

• Excellent problem-solving skills.