Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the importance of project management across the various development stages and organizational areas within a pharmaceutical company. The course lays a solid foundation for professionals transitioning into a project management role, while also offering new tools and strategies to seasoned managers looking to improve their efficiency, effectiveness and communication across their programs and projects.
Through interactive presentations, discussions, and workshops, course participants learn how to manage different types of programs and projects typical in a global pharmaceutical environment. From the hard skills in project management—planning, scheduling, scope management, risk & issue management, resource planning, and budget oversight–to the softer skills of team leadership, relationship management, effective communication, and negotiation and influence, this valuable course covers everything a project manager needs in order to be successful in today’s pharmaceutical organizations.
Event Details
Course Dates: May 6 – 7, 2024
Course Location: Boston, MA
This course has concluded. Please visit our professional development calendar to register for your next training course.
Benefits of Attendance
- Learn how project management can directly benefit the product lifecycle and operations in the pharmaceutical industry
- Develop practical, hands-on skills you can apply immediately in your own job and workplace
- Interact with other pharmaceutical industry professionals to gain greater insight into current best practices and issue resolution
- Be better prepared for audits, regulatory requirements and FDA communication
Educational Objectives
- Describe the full product lifecycle in the pharmaceutical industry, and how the varied roles in project/program management drive performance and mitigates risk to the organization
- Demonstrate how project management principles and techniques are applied to the lifecycle and organizational operations to streamline optimal delivery
- Construct and manage more effective, high-performing project teams
- Evaluate risks and issues well in advance, and to effectively mitigate and/or resolve them promptly
Course Location
The course will be held at the following hotel in Boston’s Seaport District.
Residence Inn Boston Downtown/Seaport
370 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02210 USA
617-478-0840
While the PERI special hotel room rate has expired, if you are interested in staying at the course hotel, please coordinate with the PERI team for best available rates.
Key Topics
- The Pharmaceutical Development
Process and Environment - The Art and Science of Project Management
- Hard and Soft Project Management Skills
- Organizational Challenges and Opportunities
- Project Risk & Issue Resolution
- Effective Team Communications
Who Should Attend
- Program and Project Managers
- Project Team Members
- Managers and Directors in the Pharmaceutical industry
- R & D, IT and other Pharmaceutical Professionals
- Pharmaceutical Pharmacists
Course Agenda
Download the final agenda for this interactive project management program!
Continuing Education Credits
Pharmaceutical Education & Research Institute, Inc. (PERI) is pleased to make continuing education credit available to you for attendance at this program. To receive credit, you must attend the entire program and submit the Continuing Education Application form directly to a PERI on-site coordinator. Additional $35 fee applies for students who are applying for continuing education credit.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
PERI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PERI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE)
Pharmaceutical Education & Research Institute, Inc. (PERI) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. ACPE Universal Activity Number is 0708-0000-24-003-L04-P. 1.25 continuing education units (CEUs) are available for this program. Initial Release Date: 05/06/2024. This is a application-based CPE activity.
Course Faculty
David Fritsch, MBA
Project Management Consultant, Fritsch Consulting of MA
Adjunct Faculty, Olin Business School, Washington University, St. Louis
David Fritsch is a Senior leader with extensive business and operations management experience in biologics, pharmaceuticals and chemicals manufacturing. He is currently a consultant for CMC and Program Management, currently focused on building out Program Management systems and delivering customer development and manufacturing programs for a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO).
In his various roles as a consultant and within the pharmaceutical industry, David has amassed as wealth of experience in CMC Project Management, from project inception through the completion of new facilities and capital development. His areas of experience and expertise within project management include operational growth, operational efficiency, personnel management, team building, long-range planning, vendor and alliance management, talent development. Previous industry experience include leadership positions at Landmark Bio, Resilience, Sanofi Genzyme, and Gallus Biopharmaceuticals and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals – Covidien.
Additionally, David is an adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches Strategic and Crisis Communication in the MBA program at the Olin Business School. David holds a B.S. Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.
PERI Facilitator
Lauren Kirk
Education Director
571-490-8935
lkirk@peri.org
Commercial Support
No monetary or in-kind financial support (faculty’s time) has been provided for this program.
Request a Proposal
Interested in bringing this course to your group of 10 or more? Request a proposal and a PERI team member will be in touch about hosting this course as a Corporate Education program.