Senior Scientist Project Manager Full-time

BTS Project Manager & Senior Scientist – Animal Health New Zealand (2 Year Fixed Term Contract)

Today we invent for a more hopeful tomorrow. Our company is inventing medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases through our diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, and animal health products. We have always been and always will be inventing, and we do it for the single greatest purpose: Life.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity, and teamwork of our people. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement, and teamwork. As part of our global team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

Our company in Australia and New Zealand operates in a highly regulated and competitive environment. Our success largely depends on our ability to build customer loyalty and optimize the return on customer segments. Success is often dependent on getting new products to market quickly and reimbursed at a price acceptable to both the market and the organization. Our success depends on high levels of market penetration and effective management of emerging and existing customers. This requires a high level of collaboration with stakeholders and a sense of urgency in our activities.

You will lead a team of BTS specialists to deliver complex biological, immunological, and analytical projects that support global Animal Health product supply. This role combines scientific expertise, project leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and in compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Leadership: Oversee daily project execution, define scope and timelines, track milestones, manage budgets, and present updates to senior leadership.
• Team Management & Development: Coach BTS staff in project management, scientific problem-solving (assay development, antigen/vaccine science), and continuous improvement practices.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Quality, Engineering, Production IPT, and external partners to ensure resource alignment and smooth implementation of new methods and vaccine processes.
• Operational Excellence: Build effective management systems, ensure documentation compliance (GDP), maintain audit readiness, and promote a zero-overdue culture.
• EHS Compliance: Ensure hazards are managed, legal requirements met, audits completed, and staff trained to work safely.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong team leadership, communication, and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated success managing Pharma/Biotech projects and driving strategic or organizational change.
• Scientific expertise in biotech, microbiology, vaccines, antigens, or in vitro methods.
• Minimum 5 years' leadership or project delivery experience in a GMP biological/pharmaceutical environment.
• Degree in Biological Sciences with project management exposure (preferred).

Leadership Competencies

• Entrepreneurship
• Execution Excellence
• Networking & Partnerships
• Strategic Planning
• Ownership & Accountability
• Innovation
• Influence

Ways of Working & Values

Act with urgency, collaborate across teams, embrace diversity, focus on impactful work, and uphold core values: Patients First, Ethics & Integrity, Respect for People, and Innovation.

Disclaimer: All relocation costs to New Zealand to be borne by the individual. No visa sponsorship available.