Your mission
CatalYm GmbH is seeking a (Sen.) Project Manager to support the Head of Program Management and cross-functional program teams in translating development strategy into coordinated, executable plans. The role provides day-to-day project management support across clinical development activities, including integrated planning, team coordination, governance preparation, risk and issue management, decision tracking, reporting, and follow-up of actions.
Working closely with Program Leadership and functional leads, the Project Manager ensures that milestones, dependencies, responsibilities, and emerging constraints are visible and actively followed. Functional and strategic decisions remain with the appropriate program and functional leaders; the Project Manager owns the coordination processes, planning tools, communication, and escalation needed to support timely delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Integrated Program Planning
Support Program Leadership and functional leads in developing and maintaining integrated development plans across functions, indications, geographies, and external workstreams.
Translate program strategy into clear milestones, deliverables, dependencies, decision points, and critical-path activities.
Monitor progress against agreed plans and facilitate resolution or timely escalation of deviations, competing priorities, and resource constraints.
Support scenario planning by coordinating cross-functional inputs and documenting options, trade-offs, assumptions, and implications for leadership review.
Cross-Functional Program & Team Coordination
Coordinate Program Team, Project Team, and SubTeam operating cadences, including meeting calendars, agendas, pre-reads, minutes, action follow-up, and decision documentation.
Coordinate activities spanning clinical data readouts, regulatory strategy updates, CMC deliverables, and launch or market-readiness planning, where relevant.
Facilitate alignment across Clinical, Regulatory, CMC, Safety, Medical, Quality, Translational, Market Access, and Commercial functions, as applicable.
Maintain effective information flow between Program Leadership, functional teams, governance bodies, and external partners.
Promote clear responsibilities, accountability, and practical ways of working across cross-functional teams.
Governance, Decisions, Risks, and Reporting
Coordinate preparation for governance interactions, including timelines, content integration, quality checks, risk and trade-off framing, and documentation of outcomes.
Coordinate risk identification, mitigation and contingency planning, ownership, monitoring, and escalation.
Maintain visibility of cross-functional issues and dependencies and ensure that appropriate owners and due dates are assigned.
Prepare concise program status reports, dashboards, and decision-ready materials for program, functional, and senior leadership.
Provide early escalation to the Head of Program Management and Program Leadership when issues may affect scope, timelines, budget, quality, or the critical path.
Project Management Tools and Ways of Working
Use and continuously improve fit-for-purpose tools, templates, and standards for planning, reporting, governance preparation, and team collaboration.
Share project management best practices and provide guidance to colleagues and teams where appropriate.
Contribute to consistent and scalable project management practices across CatalYm development programs.
Budget, Resources, and External Partners
Support Finance and functional leads with program budget development, forecasting, actual-versus-forecast tracking, and identification of material variances as needed.
Your profile
Required
Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, public health, business, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
Relevant experience in biotechnology or pharmaceutical drug development and cross-functional program or project management.
Understanding of the end-to-end clinical development process and experience…