Venkat Reddy
Bangalore
Summary
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with a proven track record in effectively implementing project management concepts and strategies to drive the achievement of the company\'s strategic objectives. Experienced in leading cross-functional teams and managing complex projects from initiation to successful completion. Skilled at identifying and mitigating risks, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets, and fostering strong stakeholder relationships. Committed to delivering high-quality results that exceed expectations and contribute to organizational growth.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Jubilant Biosys Ltd.
06.2022 - Current
- Applying Project Management knowledge, principles, and methodologies to drive all five levers of project management to ensure project delivery on budget, time, and quality and excellent customer experience
- Manage project operations and activities - report project health and performance and provide Management Information System (MIS) reports
- Manage client-based portfolios as a single-point contact to established partnerships, manage expectations, monitor, and report portfolio health and enhance customer experience
- Manage end-to-end cross-functional project operations and multi-disciplinary activities to ensure those project deliverables are met
- Create and manage project dashboards from the existing enterprise management database
- Independently work with the Project Leader and broader scientific team to develop detailed project plans, budget, and task management logs, to achieve project objectives
- Responsible for cross-functional implementation and delivery of the project plan
- As appropriate, negotiate and manage external resources including clients, consultants, investigators, services, and contractors
- Participate in project plan/study or protocol design and strategy
- Participate in pre-project award activities viz
- Request for Proposal (RFP) and/or review of project contracts
- Prepare the Quotations and proposals for service projects and share them with BD
- Provide regular, structured updates to the Manager, Business Unit head, Project Leader, and Team
- Maintain project team issue log and risk log with mitigation and contingency actions
- Plan, assign, and track project plan w.r.t resource, schedule, and budget
- Manage, document, and negotiate change control
- Lead scheduling of team meetings and preparation of project team agendas and minutes
- Develop and ensure project Governance and Communication Matrix
- Identify and manage (with the Project Leader) all project-related issues, to ensure prompt resolution and to avoid negative impact on budget or schedule
- Proactively identify project risks and propose risk mitigation strategies
- Identify and ensure all documentation complies with regulatory requirements and is appropriately assembled and archived
- Use MS-projects efficiently and proficiently to manage project plans and documents
- Ensure compliance to Project Management Office (PMO) standards, processes, and templates
- Delivering high level of service to clients by ensuring project targets are delivered on time, within scope, within budget
- Providing timely status report by generating lead times and turnaround time for the targets, generating weakly dashboards and monthly reports with appropriate tools and techniques (MS Project, SAP, SAP-BI, MS office tools) for tracking performance levels of projects
- Acting as single point of communication SPOC with client by weekly or bi-weekly updates, preparing MOM, tracking action item’s, generating health reports, productivity reports, and MRM's to enhance customer experience
- Driving schedule management by ensuring that all milestones and deliverables are met and informing relevant stakeholder’s if any variance
- Managing end-to-end cross-functional project operations and multidisciplinary activities (like creating and maintaining dashboards, scheduling meetings) to ensure project deliverables are met
- Spearheading the R&D operations & modification of existing ones, based on feedback & trends; supervising the development of intermediates and finished products as per predefined specifications
- Developing plans/ schedules for resources and overseeing all activities to ensure timely completion of projects as per budgeted parameters
- Generating analytical specifications for intermediates and finished goods together with analytical and regulatory group; focusing on cost optimization through legitimate use of ingredients and process
- Client/ Stakeholder Management
- Schedule, Cost & Risk Management
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Analyzing various processes/applications and recommending modifications to enhance operational efficiency
- Organizing, planning, and coordinating the entire product development including requirement analysis, finalizing parts specifications, designing, verification & validation, etc
- Establishing system of approaches to investigation procedures for arriving at CAPA; building systems that ensure ‘robust’ reportage from quality.
Program Manager
Piramal Pharma Limited
12.2021
Deputy Project Manager
GVK Bioscience Pvt. Ltd.
01.2019
- Applying Project Management knowledge, principles, and methodologies to drive all five levers of project management to ensure project delivery on budget, time, and quality and excellent customer experience
- Manage project operations and activities - report project health and performance and provide Management Information System (MIS) reports
- Manage client-based portfolios as a single-point contact to established partnerships, manage expectations, monitor, and report portfolio health and enhance customer experience
- Manage end-to-end cross-functional project operations and multi-disciplinary activities to ensure those project deliverables are met
- Create and manage project dashboards from the existing enterprise management database
- Independently work with the Project Leader and broader scientific team to develop detailed project plans, budget, and task management logs, to achieve project objectives
- Responsible for cross-functional implementation and delivery of the project plan
- As appropriate, negotiate and manage external resources including clients, consultants, investigators, services, and contractors
- Participate in project plan/study or protocol design and strategy
- Participate in pre-project award activities viz
- Request for Proposal (RFP) and/or review of project contracts
- Prepare the Quotations and proposals for service projects and share them with BD
- Provide regular, structured updates to the Manager, Business Unit head, Project Leader, and Team
- Maintain project team issue log and risk log with mitigation and contingency actions
- Plan, assign, and track project plan w.r.t resource, schedule, and budget
- Manage, document, and negotiate change control
- Lead scheduling of team meetings and preparation of project team agendas and minutes
- Develop and ensure project Governance and Communication Matrix
- Identify and manage (with the Project Leader) all project-related issues, to ensure prompt resolution and to avoid negative impact on budget or schedule
- Proactively identify project risks and propose risk mitigation strategies
- Identify and ensure all documentation complies with regulatory requirements and is appropriately assembled and archived
- Use MS-projects efficiently and proficiently to manage project plans and documents
- Ensure compliance to Project Management Office (PMO) standards, processes, and templates
- Delivering a high level of service to clients by ensuring the project targets are delivered on time, within scope, within budget
- Providing the timely status report by generating the lead times and turnaround time for the targets, generating weakly dashboards and monthly reports with appropriate tools and techniques (MS Project, SAP, SAP-BI, MS office tools) for tracking the performance levels of the projects
- Acting as a single point of communication SPOC with the client by weekly or bi-weekly updates, preparing MOM, tracking action item’s, generating health reports, productivity reports, and MRM's to enhance customer experience
- Preparing the documents requested by clients (spreadsheets, charts, process maps, S.D files) and updating in the client portals
- Driving schedule management by ensuring that all milestones and deliverables are met and informing relevant stakeholder’s if any variance
- Managing end-to-end cross-functional project operations and multidisciplinary activities (like creating and maintaining dashboards, scheduling meetings) to ensure the project deliverables are met
- Spearheading the R&D operations & modification of existing ones, based on feedback & trends; supervising the development of intermediates and finished products as per predefined specifications
- Developing plans/ schedules for resources and overseeing all activities to ensure timely completion of projects as per budgeted parameters
- Generating analytical specifications for intermediates and finished goods together with the analytical and regulatory group; focusing on cost optimization through the legitimate use of ingredients and process
- Client/ Stakeholder Management
- Report Generation
- Schedule, Cost & Risk Management
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Analyzing various processes/applications and recommending modifications to enhance operational efficiency
- Organizing, planning, and coordinating the entire product development including requirement analysis, finalizing parts specifications, designing, verification & validation, etc
- Establishing a system of approaches to investigation procedures for arriving at a CAPA; building systems that ensure ‘robust’ reportage from quality.
Scientist (chemist-Grade IV)
Merck India Ltd.
02.2016 - 12.2019
- Successfully designed and executed different routes for the synthesis of fine chemicals, intermediates of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) from a milligram scale to kilogram scale
- Handled and characterized the synthesized molecules using 1H NMR, GC, HPLC, IR, UV, and Mass spectroscopy
- Documented the experiments and prepared reports for the same
- Maintained good laboratory practice by including the use of personal protective equipment (PPE's), safe handling of hazardous and dry chemicals
- Documented changes during experiments, noting unexpected issues arising during research activities and performing a necessary risk assessment for any risky process.
RA
Syngene Intl Ltd
12.2014 - 02.2016
- Synthesis of new molecular entities (NME's) leading to fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD)
- Design and execute the synthesis of desired organic compounds.
Chemist
TCG Life Sciences-Chembiotek
10.2013 - 11.2014
- To develop the route of synthesis and/or process development of the given route to decrease the cost of development of drug and to implement the new methods to increase the product yields.
Education
PGDBA - Marketing Management And Research
NMIMS- Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Bangalore01.2020
Master of Science - Organic Chemistry
Yogi Vemana University
Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh01.2012
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry, Biochemistry and Bio-Technology
S.K.University
Anantapur01.2010
Skills
MS Project, Smartsheet, Sciforma PPM tool – Gantt chart, Cost and Schedule management, Resource calendars, and Project reporting
Team leadership and direction
Decision-Making
Project Coordination
MS Office Applications
SAP – Project budget and resource allocations, Generating project health, TAT, and productivity reports
- MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
- Cost Estimates & Budgets
- Vendor Management
- Client and Vendor management
- Operations Management
- Stakeholder Communications
- Risk Management
- Budgeting and Resource Management
- Vendor Relationship Management
Personal Information
- Title: Program Manager – PMP; Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt); M.Sc.–Chemistry, PGDBA
- Date of Birth: 07/14/1990
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that all the information mentioned above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Certification
- PMP certified on 08/2021-PMI USA [PMP No. 3121865].
- Lean Six Sigma Black certified from IMC-ISEL global institute, Delhi.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from Manipal ProLearn institute-Bangalore.
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Jubilant Biosys Ltd.
06.2022 - Current
Program Manager
Piramal Pharma Limited
12.2021
Deputy Project Manager
GVK Bioscience Pvt. Ltd.
01.2019
Scientist (chemist-Grade IV)
Merck India Ltd.
02.2016 - 12.2019
RA
Syngene Intl Ltd
12.2014 - 02.2016
Chemist
TCG Life Sciences-Chembiotek
10.2013 - 11.2014
PGDBA - Marketing Management And Research
NMIMS- Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Master of Science - Organic Chemistry
Yogi Vemana University
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry, Biochemistry and Bio-Technology
S.K.University
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