Senior Project Manager

Role: Senior Project Manager (Accredited Diagnostic Development Lab)

Role Type: Temporary – 12 Months

Location: Cambridge / Hybrid – Office attendance required for business-critical meetings / workshops.

Your New Company

The project is delivering an internal Accredited Diagnostic Development Lab (ADDL) while integrating digital capabilities to accelerate development, validation and implementation of complex diagnostics.

The project is entering a crucial stage where a strong programme manager is required to bring structure, governance and delivery focus to a multi-workstream programme spanning multiple workstreams to ensure meets set targets and outcomes through the next year. The successful candidate will work with significant autonomy, reporting into the Oncology R&D PMO team but embedded day-to-day with the ADDL leadership team.

Your New Role (First 6 Months)

• Establish and implement a robust programme governance framework across multiple workstreams, including project reporting, delivery tracking, decision-making forums and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Lead delivery of a complex laboratory capability build programme, ensuring milestones, dependencies, risks, budgets and resources remain on track across a diverse group of scientific, digital and operational stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain clear reporting mechanisms for senior leadership, including programme updates, progress reviews and key decision forums.
• Oversee budget management and benefits realisation, tracking spend and return on investment against a significant business case.
• Drive delivery of key programme milestones to support future clinical development activities and operational readiness objectives.
• Partner with scientific, digital and technology teams to establish and enhance critical diagnostic and data-driven capabilities within the new laboratory environment.
• Facilitate strategic planning activities, defining delivery roadmaps, key milestones and operating models to support successful implementation through 2027.

Essential Skills

• Complex programme/project management (multiple workstreams, matrix, global); strong project delivery skills – plans, dependencies, risk/issue, etc.
• Governance design, stand-up and implementation experience
• Pharma / life sciences background
• Lab build /or regulated environment experience
• Budget/ROI tracking experience

Desirable for the role

• PM certification (PgMP, MSP, or equivalent)

WHY ASTRAZENECA?

It's an exciting time to join AstraZeneca, a global business that's rapidly growing - there's a lot happening and even more to come. And we are a valued part of this journey. Respected partners across the business, we provide the platform that's going to power us to achieve more.

So, what's next?

Are you ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it's yours. Please apply with a copy of your CV.