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 teams—so we can solve problems in new ways. Make it RIGHT – We hold ourselves to a high standard of excellence, fulfilling 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. The role: The Project Manager, New Business supports the Bloomington, IN Business Management team as the primary leader for new business opportunities and client transfer activities. This position is integral in growing the business by supporting the sales organization in assessing new opportunities, generating project proposals and supporting contract negotiations. 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. The Project Manager sets 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 resides within the Business Management organization and reports to the Sr. Manager, New Business. 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 client‘s filing by coordinating client‘s requests and follow-up questions, supporting 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). Ownership…