Associate Project Manager, New Business

Simtra BioPharma Solutions (Simtra) is a world-class Contract Development Manufacturing Organization partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to bring their sterile injectable products to market. With facilities in Bloomington Indiana US and Halle/Westfalen Germany we offer a wide range of delivery systems including pre-filled syringes liquid/lyophilized vials diluents for reconstitution powder-filled vials and sterile crystallization.

Our product types include biologics and small molecules cytotoxics highly potent compounds diluents for reconstitution and vaccines which are all directly injected into patients worldwide. As such there is a strong emphasis on quality and continuous improvement at Simtra. We hold ourselves to the highest quality and regulatory standards.

While our primary focus is cGMP manufacturing we offer many support services including formulation and development lyophilization optimization global regulatory support and secondary packaging. Our teams are driven to help clients scale innovate and bring life-changing medicines to patients worldwide.

Why join Team Simtra Because we:

Make it HAPPEN We bring a growth mindset to every opportunity developing new skillsets and exceeding our expectations and those of our customers.

Make it TOGETHER We work as one respecting each voice and tapping into our unique strengths across teamsso we can solve problems in new ways.

Make it RIGHT We hold ourselves to a high standard of excellencefulfilling our commitments to the customer their patients and our team members.

Make it COUNT We take pride in our day-to-day work knowing the impact we make taking on challenges big and small to improve patient health.

This role:

The Project Manager New Business acts as the primary leader for new business opportunities and client transfer activities. This role leads projects through process development validation and commercialization activities by ensuring that all milestone requirements are delivered per agreed upon project specifications while balancing cost resource and time commitments. They set appropriate customer and client team member expectations through the use of Project Management tools and guidelines while ensuring effective communications are achieved with all team members. The Project Manager ensures achievement of project objectives for assigned customers by mitigating risk and solving problems.

This position reports to the Senior Manager New Business in Bloomington Indiana.

The responsibilities:

• Primary client facing role covering all aspects of product life-cycle including proposal contract technical transfer and validation through commercialization. Supporting marketing and sales campaigns in order to understand client and market needs
• Performing technical evaluations of incoming new project opportunity requests facilitating the Potential Product Evaluation and PAC meetings initiating pricing discussions with finance business development sales and marketing and writing the final customized business proposal committing to scope timeline and cost.
• Participating in contract negotiations as decision maker for technical and site-specific business topics as well as contract enforcement following agreement execution.
• Actively supporting clients filing and customer relationship management and business development initiatives to ensure client satisfaction.
• Ensuring smooth transfer to commercial team upon successful completion of project tech transfer and validation.
• Ownership of the Client Forecasting and Demand/Supply Obligations (Sales & Operations Planning) and ownership of client program Quarterly Business Review Meetings.
• Ensures roles and responsibilities are clear across internal and external organizations to achieve desired results.
• Leads internal and external project team meetings and ensures clear actions are documented and committed enabling timeline achievement.
• Ensures collaboration and respect are maintained in all experiences while constructively providing appropriate guidance and feedback.
• Primary contact for ongoing client projects and uses best practices in communication processes. Minimizes extraneous information and reduces non-essential communications. Manages information appropriately with all parties while sharing feedback and insight to drive improvements.
• Establishes expectations with all stakeholders and customers through clearly documented processes (Project Tracker Scope Document Timeline and SharePoint). Ensures understanding through direct and active communication channels.
• Determine appropriate service recovery response and deliver message and appropriate action to customer while coordinating with internal partners. Effectively manages trade-offs between customer service profitability and capabilities.
• Anticipates project challenges and risk scenarios and prepares/leads and executes proactive mitigation strategies internally and/or with clients to ensure optimal results. Manages project interdependencies by use of project management tools that support monitor/control and effective risk management.
• Coordinates agreed upon scope change control when a change is proposed ensuring financial obligations are assessed/collected from customer due to changes or additions to project scope.
• Utilizes Action Item List timelines project scorecards project metrics and deliverable tracking to drive project performance and ensure facility personnel understand progress and critical attention areas.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and ensures internal partners take ownership and drive billable project activities per business guidelines and approved project plans. Works with customer and sales to ensure additional work activities are billed and that the project meets profit guidelines.
• Contributes technical and product knowledge throughout the project lifecycle and understands balance and timing of involving appropriate technical resources throughout the project lifecycle through other experts when needed.
  
  

Required qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required preferably in a business or scientific discipline
• Minimum of three years of pharmaceutical product development or manufacturing experience preferred and three years of project management experience preferred preferably in a service business.
• Must be well versed in Project Management tools and must possess knowledge of related disciplines
• PMP certification desired
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint and Outlook and the ability to use enterprise software (examples include: JDE Veeva Trackwise etc.)
  
  

Physical / safety requirements:

• Duties may require overtime work including nights and weekends
• Position requires sitting for long hours but may involve walking or standing for periods of time
• Ability to qualify for Grade C gowning required

In return youll be eligible for1:

• Day One Benefits
• Medical & Dental Coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Spouse Life Insurance
• Child Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match
• Time Off Program
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave and more
• Adoption Reimbursement Program
• Education Assistance Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Community and Volunteer Service Program
• Employee Ownership Plan
• Additional Benefits
• Voluntary Insurance Benefits
• Vision Coverage
• Accident
• Critical Illness
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Legal and more
• Onsite Campus Amenities
• Workout Facility
• Cafeteria
• Credit Union

1 Current benefit offerings are in effect through 12/31/25

Disclaimer

This job description is intended to provide the minimum knowledge skills and abilities necessary to perform the job. It may not be inclusive of all the duties and responsibilities of the job. Simtra reserves the right to make modifications based on business requirements.