Job Description :
The Senior Project Manager is expected to hit the ground running and must have the following:
- Excellent communicator
- Experience managing SAP projects
- Experience working in a fast-paced cross-functional environment
- Ability to deliver quality analysis in a timely manner
- Excellent relationship building skills are a must
- Candidate must exhibit excellent verbal and written skills.
- Life Sciences experience a definite plus.
Job Level Specific Duties
- Manages multiple large-sized projects or programs
- Has extensive interaction with senior leadership
- Determines and coordinates the sharing of leveraged resources among projects
- Identifies opportunities and makes recommendations for project management process improvements
- Works with Business and Technical resource managers to ensure the needed staff are available and assigned to the project; including entering resource requests
- Creating project charters
- Conducting thorough project kick-offs that include confirmation of project scope, roles and responsibilities, and high level timelines
- Developing, managing, and controlling the project plan/schedule.
- Creation of exception requests, when necessary, to add/delete or change milestones for projects that do not align with the standard milestones
- Holding status meeting and preparing a weekly status report which includes identification of, and updates to issues and risks
- Managing and reporting issues and risk, escalating as needed to ensure timely resolution and mitigation
- Identifying and communicating project/program interdependencies
- Tracking and monitoring progress to ensure timely delivery of key project deliverables by those assigned to deliver.
- Serves as the point of escalation for team members when there are roadblocks, issues, risks that cannot be resolved without intervention.
- Managing all aspects of the project budget process
- Documenting and developing required change controls
- Addressing the needs, expectations, and concerns of the stakeholders during the course of the project. Includes appropriately managing the expectations of the business.
- Balancing competing project constraints, including Scope, Quality, Schedule, Budget, Resources, and Risk(s)
- Transitioning ownership of project activities to business owners upon project closure.
- Status Reporting, Budgets, Project Plan, Resource planning, meeting facilitation, overall team coordination. The individual in charge of all projects associated with the program.
Typical Years of Experience
- Typically requires 5+ years relevant experience Skills
- Experience managing SAP projects
- Ability to deliver quality analysis in a timely manner
- Advanced understanding software development projects
- Excellent ability to drive projects to successful completion
- Demonstrates advanced proficiency in the specific tools that are available and required as part of the company''s project management information system
- Advanced ability to identify, develop and quantify any required corrective action plans
- Advanced ability to ensure that effective project controls are in place to monitor project or program performance
- Advanced capability at providing effective performance reporting for the customer and company in order to monitor the progress of the project
- Advanced facilitation and communication skills