Project Management
Sr. Project Manager Job Description
Qualifications Must Haves:
10+ years overall Sr. Project management experience.
7+ years leading global cross-functional corporate projects
5+ years leading IT infrastructure project rollouts/cutover, business change management
High level infrastructure design/requirements analysis capabilities
Background in Information Technology
Experience with MES and Power Pick systems within manufacturing
Work experience in compliance and regulatory processes
Attention to detail and organization skills
Ability to be versatile managing projects
Effective communication/writing/presentation skills, ability to problem solve and strong collaboration skills.
5 years recent Life Science, Pharmaceutical and/or Health Care company experience
Nice to Have:
Up to 10% travel.
Preferred:
PMP, or PgPM PMI Certification or equivalent
BS in Business Administration/Computer Sciences/Engineering or related degree that provides strong PM skill development.
Summary
The Sr. Project Manager works with executive and director level business leaders to understand the strategic objectives for major business change initiatives and define the tactical projects to realize these objectives. The Sr. Project Manager leads the projects through building effective relationships with business leaders, project team and project stakeholders. The Sr. Project Manager drives the delivery of the projects through advanced project management techniques and methodologies. The Sr. Project Manager balances the demands of multiple medium/large projects ($.5M - $1M) or larger programs ($1M-$10M).
Responsibilities
Project management on complex integration projects from beginning to end including all phases; planning, requirements, design, testing, training and cutover.
Create an integrated project plan with multiple workstreams.
Establish project governance structures and define processes for reporting, review, and approval of project goals and objectives.
Leads full life cycle project delivery with global workstreams
Deliver project and project documentation following PMI methodology
Takes ownership for delivering project objectives and deliverables. Drives project execution to meet project schedule, cost and quality requirements.
Manages internal and external customer relationships to realize high customer satisfaction for their projects.
Manages multiple workstreams within project to meet project objectives, executing and delivering quality results within project timeline and budget.
Implements company and industry best practice project methodology for delivering their projects.
Supports EPPM management in refining project management practices and implementing them throughout the ePMO.
Mentors project managers and project coordinators in project management best practices.
Competencies
Stakeholder Relationship demonstrated ability to identify key project stakeholders and understand their goals and motivations for the project. Adept at building stakeholder confidence that the project is meeting their needs through positive relationship management.
Leadership Skills and Presence - capable of building a leadership presence that inspires project stakeholders and team members to achieve the project objectives. Proactive in driving creative resolutions to project issues and risk. Team and people management leadership skills.
Team Building - experienced building cross functional teams in multiple geographies and diverse cultural backgrounds. Effective in creating a positive working environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Driven to enable the project team to surface and resolve issues that affect project delivery.
Business Acumen seasoned understanding of the business drivers in multiple disciplines that influence project success. Solid business judgement to help drive decision making to reduce project risk and achieve project results.
Skills and Knowledge
Project Management Methodology
Knowledgeable in project management industry best practices.
Demonstrated experience driving projects from initiation through closure.
Adept at partnering with business sponsors and stakeholder to shape the project business case and gain organizational support and approval.
In depth understanding of the detailed project planning processes and tools. Skilled in establishing detailed scope, schedule, resources, and budget using standard project tools (MS Project/SharePoint/etc.).
Experienced establishing Stakeholder management plans, Risk/issue management plans, Vendor management plans and Quality plans.
Experienced establishing and following controls to manage scope change and reporting project schedule/budget performance.
Proactive in surfacing risks and issues. Ability to engage project team and stakeholder community to resolve issues and define risk mitigations. Effective in developing clear problem statements and resolution options for escalation to project sponsors and management.
Clear understanding of the processes to define and validate acceptance criteria for the project to ensure project completion acceptance.
Experience in Regulatory Assessment processes and document submission
Business Change Management
Understands the dynamics of implementing change in the business environment.
Experienced in helping the business team plan and drive change into their organization.
General knowledge of the techniques for designing changes to business processes impacted by the project.
Understanding how education, training and communications drive the effectiveness of the solution. Experienced working with business team members to ensure effective delivery to the impacted organizations.
Interpersonal Skills
Superior English-language verbal and written communications skills to interact with executive, business leaders and team members.
Ability to lead effective meetings/workshops. Creating meeting objectives, agendas, and timely distribution of meeting minutes.
Ability to manage meeting discussions to achieve meeting objectives and timeline.
Experienced in the techniques to work in a virtual/cross cultural meeting environment
Excellent time management skills. Able to work on multiple concurrent activities. Able to prioritize personal workload and team-work load to optimize project delivery.
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