Project Management
Posted 28 Aug 2026
Advertised as “Director, Project Management”
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- Expected experience
- 15–20 yrs
- Management level
- People management
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyBiotechnology, Chemistry, Engineering, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacy (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
CertificationsMaster of Business Administration, Project Management Professional, PgMP
Field of studyFinance, General Management, Operations, Strategy, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt
Study levelCertificate
Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. For more information, visit www.azurity.com.
Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azurity's success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do. We seek highly motivated individuals with the dedication, integrity, and creative spirit needed to thrive in our organization.
Brief team/department description:
Azurity develops unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, to serve overlooked patients. This role is with Azurity R&D project management team, which coordinates cross-functional planning, development and tracking of project plans, considering time, cost, quality and strategy. As we grow and expand, we are building new capabilities to make our processes simpler, faster, and more efficient. We are looking for a dynamic, change-inspired leader, to lead R&D project management, and process improvement initiatives.
This role will report to the R&D head and act as an internal consultant operating from Azurity’s Hyderabad development center. The role holder provides input on resource (budget, headcount) strategy and support in setting the yearly product delivery KPI. This role will be responsible for managing the R&D Project Management department, defining, and implementing R&D Project Management processes. Holds the overall responsibility in the R&D PM team for ensuring Project Plans, Budgets, Timelines are tracked against baseline and updated as per the Program Management process. Ensure project plan alignment with portfolio and product lifecycle management (PLM) goals.
The role holder will lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance R&D productivity and streamline product development processes through targeted process improvements, tool evaluation, and vendor coordination. This role acts as the functional lead to ensure that technology-enabled solutions align closely with evolving R&D needs, leveraging a strong working knowledge of pharmaceutical R&D workflows, data and applicable concepts to effectively coordinate with external vendors, internal data science and digital teams. This role focuses on functional leadership and facilitation, responsible for working with the Chief Scientific Officer and science department heads to ensure streamlined processes are in place for meeting yearly KPIs, identifying process improvement & simplification opportunities.