Global Team Build to Support Rapidly Advancing Clinical Development Pipeline for a Mid-Sized Biotech
The Challenge
Our client had a number of assets moving into the clinic as well as others that were progressing into late development across a range of indications.
Their team were hugely under-resourced against the company’s objectives. There was also a recruitment strategy hamstrung by a lack of talent with global development experience based in-country.
The Solution
As a solution, Planet Pharma proposed a flexible resourcing model through utilisation of contractors/consultants that would enable them to hire across the development lifecycle and give them access to talent throughout Europe. This would bring the experience and know-how to advance their R&D efforts, regardless of whether they had an entity in the country where the contractor/consultant was based.
The Results
The talent we placed quickly developed a project management structure that would provide visibility and oversight to the entire portfolio for optimized project selection and resource management.
- Our contractors inventoried the client’s existing PM processes, measures, quality controls and tools to identify a common set of standard PM practices.
- Using these standard PM practices, our client can now quickly initiate and deliver successful projects.
- Our contractors also implemented a transparent and lean project portfolio governance infrastructure where decision-making aligned with strategic goals. Project status is now reported to key decision-makers, ensuring the successful delivery of the right results.
Post Outcome
Due to the increase in workforce, post contractor and client management is key to the success of the programme. As such we operate a bi-weekly and monthly review programme, analysing spend, utilisation and efficiency to ensure value in both performance and financial management. This has been done through tailored metrics tracked through a variety of proprietary time tracking and performance systems.
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