Sr. Project Manager

Qualifications

• 10+ years overall project management experience.
• 5+ years leading global cross-functional corporate projects requiring business changes.
• Experience managing R&D/Clinical projects.
• Good technical background - from the point of understanding scope and architecture and knowing where to drive the team.
• Good overall understanding of the PM role aligned with the specific needs for two projects.
• Understanding allocation limits.

Skills

• Nice To Have Medical Affairs project experience.
• PMP, or PgPM PMI Certification or equivalent.
• BS in Business Administration/Computer Sciences/Engineering or related degree.

Responsibilities

• Establish project governance structures and define processes for reporting, review, and approval of project goals and objectives.
• Partners with project sponsors and stakeholders to define project objectives and business case.
• Leads full life cycle project delivery for multiple medium/large project or larger programs.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Able to work on multiple concurrent activities.
• Able to prioritize personal workload and team-work load to optimize project delivery.