About This Role
This role involves the overall management of a large-scale expansion project, focusing on operational functionality, quality, and HSE compliance within approved scope, budget, and timeline. The project, with an estimated investment of RMB 1.5 billion, will establish aseptic manufacturing facilities, quality control laboratories, and utility support systems, covering key process steps from aseptic preparation to packaging. The Project Director will lead a senior project team, manage risks, and ensure the organization is capable and compliant for regulatory inspections.
Responsibilities
- Be accountable for the performance of the project team
- Develop the overall project plan based on deliverables and targets
- Manage the team
- Align overall project strategy and deliverables with key business stakeholders and cross-functional senior management
- Establish and lead the senior project team
- Serve as the point of contact for Novartis project governance
- Provide escalation to key business stakeholders and cross-functional senior management
- Perform risk management and develop contingency plans for the project
- Build a sufficient and capable organization throughout the project to ensure resources are available
- Plan resource transition effectively from project to commercial operations
- Design and establish a project organization built for high performance, efficiencies, and synergies across the existing Changping site and with Aseptic sites
- Ensure the organization is balanced in terms of technical and leadership capabilities from internal talent and acquired local key talents
- Ensure compliance readiness for regulatory inspection and audits, in conjunction with the Quality organization
- Set up and manage the project in accordance with the project budget, schedule, and quality requirements
- Ensure compliance with procurement and accounting rules and regulations
- Ensure resulting unit cost of the products manufactured at the new facility are within targets
- Sustain acceptable standards for product/process quality, HSE, and Security in the interest of legal compliance, competitive advantage, and community relations
- Work in close cooperation with Commercial Operations in the S&OP process to efficiently launch products from the new facility
- Collaborate closely with existing Aseptics sites to successfully transfer technology to the manufacturing sites
- Act with a high level of collaboration and investment in key relationships with other manufacturing units/platforms, SC, MS&T, Engineering, Quality, P&O, and Finance to assure compliance and a high degree of alignment and performance
- Coach, mentor, and lead the facility organization, ensuring organization structure and levels of accountability to achieve rapid decision-making and efficient execution of business strategy
