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Cary, North Carolina, United States

• Drive the operationalization of the $3.5B collaboration between AbbVie and Calico, including a portfolio of innovative targets from Discovery through Proof of Concept.• Manage partnered programs into Development, including project, financial and headcount management.• Implement process and procedure for project management and reporting.• Partner with Legal, Contracting, and Alliance Management to negotiate key agreements with Calico and multiple third-party partners to support the long-term interests of the business.

Cary, Nc

• Accountable for forecasting and management of resources and associated budget. Responsible for short and long-term forecasts and management of implications of alternative R&D scenarios.• Provide leadership and develop strategic recommendations for functions to ensure all functional areas operate within the current portfolio plan resources and budget. Partner with functional leaders to resource and financially plan upcoming initiatives and projects.• Provide monthly FTE forecast and associated budget in support of financial Last Best Estimate (LBE) and major financial planning cycles.• Assess workload and headcount needs based on study timelines and complexity of study and site issues. Analyze the impact of development strategy changes with respect to timeline and resource needs; communicates impact to upper management.• Implementation and management of resource management software. Includes oversight of system administration and user training, data accuracy and compliance, and ensure data availability to functional and financial estimators.• Initiative support and strategic project management: Provide strategic insight and project management for identification, conduct and implementation of functional initiatives. • Providing vision, leadership and mentoring to build and maintain a high performing functional team ensuring alignment of individual goals with functional, cultural and corporate goals.• Partner with key stakeholders, including, but not limited to; Global functional leaders, Finance, Business Operations, Outsourcing and Human Resources.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Improve and advance Chiltern's resourcing process in order to maximize efficiencies of resources. Create and implement a new resourcing system to enhance project resourcing, forecasting and utilization.• Analyze departmental resourcing for process improvement, inefficiencies in staff allocation v utilization, resource capacity and propose hiring decisions to fulfill resourcing gaps.• Develop suite of reports to track resource allocations, six-month forecast, employee utilization, free capacity, and resourcing conflicts. Present to executive management on a regular basis.• Chair a weekly call with all resourcing stakeholders to proactively address upcoming resource needs, conflict resolution and ad hoc resourcing concerns.• Assign resources to proposals and awarded projects. Continually evaluate project team budget, allocations and utilization to current project needs to ensure cost-effective allocations. • Interact with the Executive Management, Recruitment Team, Business Development, Line Management, Project Management and Finance to ensure appropriate allocation and utilization.• Line Manager Responsibilities

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Spearhead initiative to globalize & centralize resourcing process to include: resourcing system implementation, creation of awarded work tracker, RFP tracker and global resource request form.• Responsible for strategic planning, assignment and tracking of Clinical Operations and Project Management staff across proposed, new and existing projects. • Assessed employee resource utilization and employee resource forecast to ensure that project teams meet client expectations and PRA contractual obligations. • Analyze resource needs and conduct risk assessments as related to achievement of project milestones (e.g. IM, SIVs, CRF backlog, interim analyses, etc.). • Ongoing communication & consultation with internal customers, including: Functional Manager, Delivery Partners, Business Development Partners and Project Team Leaders..

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Designed trackers, reports and training to roll out for new resourcing model, QCR (Quality in Clinical Research). Moved from regional model to site centric model.• Managed resourcing requests from Proposals, Clinical Operations, and Project Management staff for proposed and awarded work. Reviewed resourcing requests and appropriately identified, proposed, and managed resource assignments.• Forecasted resourcing needs for upcoming projects 6 months to one year out and analyzed current projects to ensure utilization of staff.• Identified and tracked clinical resourcing metrics as a benchmark and identified process improvements to improve metrics.

Ba, English Literature

Recieved Academic Scholarship

English Literature

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