Project Manager AVSI

Manager, Strategic Patient Programs & Business Development

Experience- 5 to 10 Years

Location- Delhi/NCR

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and results-driven Manager to lead strategic initiatives across our patient services and business development divisions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in the pharmaceutical domain, with expertise in designing and executing patient-centric programs, leveraging data to drive business growth, and leading cross-functional teams. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, pharma project management, and a fundamental understanding of digital health solutions.

Key Responsibilities

·       Develop and lead strategic initiatives for patient support programs across various therapeutic areas, with a focus on delivering innovative, patient-centric solutions.

·       Design and execute data-driven healthcare strategies to enhance patient engagement, adherence, and access, using analytics to measure program impact and inform continuous refinements.

·       Manage and optimize vendor partnerships and project execution to improve operational efficiency and achieve key business objectives.

·       Orchestrate cross-functional collaborations with Medical, Market Access, Advocacy, and Commercial teams to ensure seamless integration of patient support initiatives.

·       Contribute to business development by identifying new opportunities and scaling operations.

·       Lead digital transformation projects, overseeing the development and implementation of technology-based solutions for patient onboarding, adherence tracking, and HCP engagement.

·       Ensure regulatory and quality compliance for all patient programs and business operations, staying up-to-date on industry best practices.

·       Spearhead team management and development, fostering a high-performance culture and enhancing service delivery.

Qualifications

·       A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Engineering, Life Sciences, or Biotechnology is required.

·       A minimum of 5-10 years of progressive experience in the pharmaceutical, digital health, or diagnostics industry.

·       Proven expertise in project management and team leadership.

·       Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical landscape, including market access, pharmacovigilance, and regulatory compliance.

·       Demonstrated experience in business development and scaling operations.

·       Basic understanding of software development and experience working on digital health or mobile platform projects.

·       Exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement, and analytical skills.

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Industry: Preferably User Experience (UX/UI), Digital Design, Software Development, IT Services, Advertising Agency or relevant domain

Primary Responsibilities

• Do market research, competitive analysis, Prospecting & client profiling.
• Data Mining: Finding & generating leads and converting them into the sale
• Manage end-to-end sales process, arrange and attend meetings and explore potential business opportunities.
• Strategically communicate, and circulate marketing & branding content
• Client relationship management & address their requirements on time to time basis
• Active involvement in project scoping, SLA compliance & timely invoice collection
• Handle company promotions & social media communications, PR & Press relationship
• Travel and attend networking events & client meetings.
• Training & nurturing peers

Skills Requirements

• Excellent Written & Verbal communication skills - English
• Extremely good at Client Presentation, Pitching & Negotiations
• Revenue Focused, Ability to meet financial goals
• Writing content on social media, blog, press etc.
• Time & Priority Management
• Knowledge of SEO, SMO and SEM is plus
• Familiar with IT terminology specifically in UI Design & Development Area.

Special Benefits

• Attractive incentives & timely recognition
• Collaborative & creative culture. A passionate team with diverse backgrounds & skills
• Exposure to various challenging opportunities & mentoring from seniors.
• Work with well respected & award-winning design studio

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You will:

• Be responsible for speedy and timely shipping of all products and features
• Work closely with front end engineers, product managers, and UI/UX teams to understand the product requirements in detail, and map them out to delivery timeframes
• Work closely with backend engineers to understand and map deployment timeframes and integration into pipelines
• Manage the timeline and delivery of numerous A/B tests on the website design, layout, color scheme, button placement, images/videos, and other objects to optimize time on site and conversion
• Keep track of all dependencies between projects and engineers
• Track all projects and tasks across all engineers and address any delays.  Ensure tight coordination with management.

You should have the following qualities:

• Strong track record of successful delivery of complex projects and product launches
• 2+ years of software development; 2+ years of program management
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Deep understanding of AI model development and deployment
• Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment
• Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results
• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or related field
• Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online

Skills:

Technical program management, ML algorithms, Tensorflow, AWS, Python

Work Experience:  3 years to 10 years

Summary of the role

The person will work closely with the overseas stakeholders, senior management team & internal departments. His/ her work will have an immediate impact on strategic initiatives, productivity, overseas program management and communicating objectives between overseas management teams and Indian stakeholders and Co-Founders office and also other departments.

The person will work closely with the CEO of Impact Guru Foundation, India, the US Board and other vertical heads in order to aggregate, review, and prepare deliverables for the United States market.

The person will have to focus on international relations, interdepartmental collaborations and business stakeholder management to evolve our fundraising platform into a world-class experience for our fundraisers and establish a platform for providing intelligent insights for internal stake holders as well.  

Roles & Responsibilities

●      General Operations and Management

●      Central link between Impact Guru Inc. India and Impact Guru Foundation vertical heads: Development, Communications, Programs, Impact, IT, and Finance

●      Develop and manage shared internal documents

●      Overall administrative support from India

●      Special projects and assignments

●      Donor Stewardship and Communications

●      Manage the outreach communications calendar and pipeline

●      Evolving strategic business initiatives from development to successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership and departmental heads.

●      Understand and resolve challenges to manage international (US) relations and constantly develop international leads to improve IGF visibility and reach in the international market.

●      Review, design, and execute on improvements to org structure, find knowledge and skills gaps and help address them Improve current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity.

●      Strategize campaigns to build close relations with new & existing Partners

●      Serve as liaison between US office, senior leaders, and CEO, regarding company climate, employee well-being, project updates, proposals, and planning.

●      Oversee daily operations through collaboration with senior management and international stakeholders.

●      Build and develop relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help to define new operational strategies, working with CEO and executives on special projects.

●      Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them, and assisting with the preparation and dissemination of communications.

●      Provide direction to the team & personally drive efforts to ensure targets for the department are met consistently.

●      Ensure timely & accurate reporting by all team members 

●      Provide premier support and service to US-based donors and prospects coming to India to visit IGF, India programs

●      Serve as primary point of contact and support for visitors leading up to, and during, their time in India

●      Database Management and Maintenance

●      Prospect research

●      Grant Research and Pipeline Management - Lead role in researching and identifying corporate, foundation, and institutional proposal opportunities from United States-based entities

Grant calendar and pipeline management

Key interactions 

●      Internal: candidate will report into Impact Guru Foundation Co-Founders & their office, and closely work with the Development team in India. 

●      The candidate will report into the CEO of Impact Guru Foundation, India and closely work with the Development team in India. 

●      Strong interpersonal skills, which enable you to build meaningful relationships with diverse others and invest them, and a focus on collaborating to reach outcomes with teams.

●      Energetic, enthusiastic and a team-player. Ability to work independently, manage multiple projects and timelines efficiently with minimal oversight, learn quickly on the job, and thrive under pressure

Professional Experiences

●      High on integrity, accountability and drive. Growth-oriented mindset and a drive to develop self as well as to challenge and improve existing systems and approaches.

●      ​​​​​​​Excellent critical thinking skills and ability to analyse complex data sets from varied sources (both quantitative and qualitative), drawing narratives, and communicating impact stories to external partners.

●      Minimum 4years of Prior experience in an NGO, Foundation, fundraising, start-up environment.

●      Excellent communicator in written and verbal form.

●      Extremely versatile, dedicated to efficient productivity.

●      Nimble business mind with a focus on developing creative solutions.

●      Strong project reporting skills, with a focus on interdepartmental communication.

Qualifications

●      Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Business Administration or related field, or equivalent practical experience. (mandatory)

Functional & Behavioural Competencies

●      Project management

●      Multiple stakeholder management

●      Growth mind-set

●      Aggressive delivery targets-oriented mind-set

●      Entrepreneurial mind-set

●      Ability to deliver in high pace environment

●      Excellent communication

●      Dynamic personality

What do we offer?

●      Attractive salary & performance-linked bonuses

●      An opportunity to be in a leadership position of a high-growth start-up

●      Fun, casual & flexible work environment

●      Entrepreneurial, forward-looking, growth-driven & open work culture

Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to managing end-to-end implementation project life cycle, driving optimization of operating models 
• Determine Project Scope, Objectives and Dependencies
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule, work plan and key milestones
• Determine and Define Project Resource Allocations
• Manage Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies on Project by assigning appropriate ownership and escalations
• Capture project health metrics, maintaining a central repository for all projects and project information that provide insights into processes and frameworks that work 
• Establish and execute Project Governances viz., Steerco Meetings, Weekly Cadences and Track Action Items to closure
• Conduct governance calls for ongoing projects and ensuring project commitments are being met by Darwinbox’s implementation team as well as the Client’s implementation team 
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
• Collaborate with Client on requirement changes and initiate change management process
•  Identify, document and update the project scope for changes
• Initiate appropriate review and approvals on the changes
• Evaluate and analyze the impact of changes and communicate with stakeholders
• Seek approvals and commitments on the scope, cost and schedule
• Ensure SOP adherence, time-logging, effectively making use/ driving adoption of Project Management tools and methodologies 
• Review/prepare Project Plans for implementation projects and monitor resource allocation 
• Identify Stakeholder Communication Requirements on project performance metrics
• Collaborate with Product Teams on Product enhancements
• Document impact and prioritize changes to Product Backlog and timelines
• Stakeholder Reporting - Preparing status reports, highlighting risks to the project timelines, proactively escalating potential red flags, and recommending mitigation solutions 
• Track Project Closure / Handover activities to downstream teams. 

General Requirements: 

• B. Tech or an equivalent degree 
• MBA or an equivalent degree is preferred but not mandatory 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to work under pressure and adaptable to change 
• Excellent time management and problem-solving skills 
• Proficiency in MS Office tool.
• Any experience in MS SharePoint, MS Power Automate, Excel Macros, and Project Management Tools like JIRA, and Zoho Projects is an added advantage 
• Any Project Management (PMP/ Prince2/Agile CSM) or Agile certification is mandatory 

•  8-10 years of prior experience in a project management role is preferred with strong experience in HRMS implementation.