R&D Project Manager

O sucesso de uma empresa depende das pessoas apaixonadas que nela atua.

Juntos, compartilhamos nossos talentos.

Como uma das principais empresas de saúde animal, a Ceva Saúde Animal acredita que o nosso sucesso está ligado às nossas pessoas apaixonadas que pesquisam, desenvolvem, produzem e fornecem soluções inovadoras de saúde para todos os animais, o que contribui para o futuro do nosso planeta diversificado.

Estamos empenhados em garantir o mais alto nível possível de cuidado e bem-estar para animais de criação (aves, suínos, ruminantes), animais de companhia (cães e gatos) e animais selvagens.

A nossa visão “Juntos, Além da Saúde Animal” enfatiza que a saúde e o bem-estar das pessoas, dos animais e do nosso planeta estão totalmente interligados. Mais do que nunca, a Ceva está comprometida com uma abordagem “One Health”.

Como parte da nossa política de “Diversidade, Inclusão e Equidade” a Ceva Saúde Animal está comprometida com a empregabilidade de pessoas com deficiência e fará as adequações necessárias durante o processo seletivo para garantir a inclusão e acessibilidade de todos os candidatos. Para solicitar uma adequação por favor contate um membro do Recursos Humanos da Ceva.

Suas Responsabilidades

• Make and own project decisions within defined authority thresholds and escalate to governance (ISC / SPOC / ComEx) with a ready-to-decide solution and its trade-off whenever those thresholds are exceeded.
• Understand and champion Ceva's strategic, competitive and customer context to explain why the developed product matters (competitor differentiation, customer convenience…), anticipate its business impact, and connect decisions to product range and portfolio value and evolution (vaccination schemes…). Act as a source of proposals on these matters.
• Demonstrate foresight across the entire project lifecycle, from development through commercialization, ensuring alignment with market needs and business objectives.
• Communicate in a clear, concise, logical transparent and timely manner to foster understanding and enable decision making. Communicate project status and recommend trade-off decisions directly and credibly at governance forums (ISC, SPOC, and ComEx when relevant) and within project team. Adapt communication and leadership style to the audience.
• Build, lead and develop the cross-functional project team; delegate real ownership of workstreams and actively support team members' growth. Participate to objective setting and assessment of project team members.
• Drive continuous improvement, adaptability and change: challenge existing practices, foster a test-and-learn mindset for innovation and turn learnings into standards reused beyond the project.

Project Management

• Structure and own the project plan (scope, WBS, sequencing, critical path, timeline, scorecard, KPI…) and keep it current in the corporate PM tool.
• Proactively manage risks, opportunities, issues and changes; anticipate deviations and propose corrective action and their trade-offs before being asked.
• Champion the use of digital and AI-enabled tools to strengthen forecasting, planning and reporting, and to reduce manual effort.
• Understand, track budget and forecast, manage variance against the business case, and integrate financial and operational trade-offs into project decisions.
• Structure and own project documentation and updates, resource management, timeline estimation and reporting.
• Show a complete project ownership and scientific understanding of all aspects of the project.

Scientific and Product Development expertise

• Bring genuine, credentialed scientific expertise to the project (e.g. disease knowledge, microbiology, immunology, CMC or another domain relevant to the project) to independently challenge technical rationale and interpret study data.
• Conduct a regular scientific watch on internal and external advances.
• Curate an external network of expertise in the scientific area involved.
• Master the end-to-end product development lifecycle and anticipate cross-functional dependencies (regulatory, quality, manufacturing, commercial) before they are raised by others and propose solutions with related probability of success.

Integrate regulatory, quality and IP/market considerations into project planning, risk anticipation and prioritization, ensuring strict adherence to compliance and ethical standards throughout the development lifecycle.

Seu Perfil

• Advanced scientific degree in a life sciences, veterinary sciences or related field (PhD or post-doctoral experience strongly preferred; a Master's degree with substantial equivalent scientific expertise may be considered).
• PMP / PMI or equivalent project management certification
• Genuine scientific/technical expertise in the relevant domain (e.g. disease knowledge, microbiology, immunology, CMC), evidenced by an advanced degree, publications, patents or a recognized R&D expert track record.
• Proven project management track record, applying standard PM tools and methodologies (agile and waterfall) rigorously.
• Business acumen
• Experience presenting to governance bodies and making and owning autonomous decisions within defined thresholds.
• Comfortable with digital and AI-enabled PM tools and data-driven reporting (experience with Smartsheets specific PM tool a plus)
• Knowledge of GMP/GLP/GCP and the regulatory framework for biological or pharmaceutical products.
• Advanced English.