Project Portfolio & Governance Lead
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Job Summary
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Overview
Amgen a biotechnology pioneer discovers develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer kidney disease rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses. With a deep and broad pipeline of potential new medicines we continue to advance science to serve patients.
Amgen Dun Laoghaire (ADL) activities include Biopharmaceutical Aseptic Manufacturing Lyophilisation and Automated Inspection & Packaging.
Role Purpose
The PMO & Master Planning Specialist is a key member of the Site Facilities & Engineering (F&E) team responsible for governance integration and performance of the site engineering and facilities project portfolio. The role provides strategic oversight of capital planning project prioritisation initiation and execution. This is done by leveraging Amgen global project management tools methodologies and industry best practice. The position ensures alignment between site strategy regulatory expectations resource capacity and longterm facility development through robust master planning and portfolio governance.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The PMO & Master Planning Specialist will be the business owner of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) PMO process. This process provides governance of the site project portfolio ensuring objective prioritisation aligned with site strategy.
Develops implements and sustains PMO policies standards and procedures to support effective oversight of projects at ADL.
Leverages Amgen global tools methodologies and best practices actively adopting learnings from the network and sharing ADL best practices globally.
Represents ADL in corporate portfolio and project management forums and acts as an active member of the global PMO network.
Site Master Planning & Strategic Capital Planning
Leads the development governance and ongoing maintenance of the Site Master Plan.
Integrates site requirements into a rolling multi-year strategic capital plan aligned with business growth capacity and compliance needs.
Provides datadriven portfolio analysis and scenario planning to support capital investment decisions.
Performs feasibility studies to develop a basis for the masterplan.
IBP PMO Process: Portfolio Oversight
Maintains a central repository for all approved site projects portfolio decisions and associated governance documentation.
Coordinates communication of portfolio decisions and translates impacts clearly to stakeholders across engineering manufacturing quality and site leadership.
Communicates portfolio roadmaps progress risks mitigation plans and impacts to senior management and crossfunctional stakeholders.
Escalates portfolio risks constraints or breaches of decision authority to site management in a timely and structured manner.
Resource Planning & Capacity Management
Facilitates site resource loading and capacity analysis to balance project demand against available engineering and site resources.
Provides clear datadriven recommendations to leadership on sequencing tradeoffs and constraints.
Identifies anticipates and proactively resolves portfoliolevel conflicts and interdependencies.
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
Leads strategic crossfunctional and crossorganizational initiatives that improve portfolio performance and predictability.
Continuously reviews and improves PMO and engineering governance processes to ensure ongoing suitability adequacy and effectiveness.
Develops and tracks KPIs to benchmark site global and industry portfolio performance.
Drives structured retrospectives and embeds lessons learned to strengthen delivery maturity.
Fosters a culture of accountability transparency and delivery excellence across site project teams.
Basic Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelors degree in Science Engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 6 years directly related experience in engineering facilities or capital project environments.
- At least 5 years leadership experience directing teams programs portfolios or resource allocation.
- Formal project management qualification (PMP IPMA or PRINCE2 Practitioner) is an advantage.
- Strong knowledge of cGMP environments and experience supporting a 24hour manufacturing site.
Preferred Qualifications & Experience
- Strong systems mindset with a high focus on safety quality compliance and governance.
- Excellent communication and stakeholdermanagement skills within highly matrixed organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to identify portfolio risk manage ambiguity and make effective decisions under pressure.
- Proven capability to prioritise competing demands and clearly articulate tradeoffs and consequences.
- Experience mentoring coaching and transferring project and portfolio management expertise.
Key Skills
About Company
Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses. As an organization dedicated to improving the ... View more
