Barbara (Barb) Marshall, Senior Director, PMO, Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC

Presentation Summary

Building a Portfolio Mindset:  Leveraging Resource Data to Drive Organizational Maturity

For a company celebrating its 100th year in business, change can be hard.  Managing multiple changes with competing priorities can be harder.  Transitioning from a family-owned business to public company with a global presence, consolidating manufacturing operations in a highly regulated industry and experiencing unprecedented growth in new product development all challenge the organization in different ways.  Managing all of these changes simultaneously requires coordination.

Learn how one company is leveraging resource management data to tame the chaos, drive alignment on organizational priorities and build a portfolio mindset.

Speaker Bio

Barbara (Barb) Marshall is the Senior Director, Portfolio & Project Management Office at Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota. In this role, Barb is responsible for Project Management, Resource Management, Clinical Affairs and Alliance Management.  Her team is also building the company’s Portfolio Management capability, a journey that she looks forward to sharing at the upcoming Resource Planning Summit.

Barb has broad industry perspective gained from more than twenty years of experience in retail, financial services, healthcare, sporting goods and non-profit organizations.  She is passionate about identifying and implementing innovative solutions to complex business problems, enhancing corporate growth and profitability through the strategic use of information.

Barb holds an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth College), a B.A. in economics from Princeton University and business analytics, lean management and project management certifications from the University of St. Thomas/Opus School of Business.