Description:
Develop, execute, and manage project(s) within the defined scope. Lead all aspects of the project life cycle, working with project sponsors/key stakeholders, team members, and management to oversee all phases of project completion. Build and manage project’s work breakdown structure, milestones, risks, issues, and deliverables within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of the project. Ensure transparent reporting of project status, issues, and risks across multiple work streams and vendors.
Key Responsibilities:
• Initiate and Plan Project: Works with business and IT management to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives, financials and deliverables. Builds integrated project and testing plans with internal and external stakeholders.
• Project Control: Manage scope and business requirements specifications in partnership with business leads. Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect the project working with business and IT management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution. Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget.
• Executing and Closing Project: Develops and executes a work plan obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed. Leads cross functional teams with internal and external stakeholders in delivering project scope. Coordinates execution of integrated test plans and resolution of issues across all stakeholders. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.
• Project Communication: Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate program status and decision support information to project teams, business, and IT management. Makes recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues and manage risks.
• Resource and Team Management: Coordinate resources to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively assign tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities. Motivates project team in order to deliver project outcomes.
• Quality Management: Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and functional policies and procedures.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor degree in Business, Information Systems/Computer Science or related discipline
• Demonstrated experience in managing projects.
• Proven Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word skills are required.
• At least 7 years experience in project management, business systems analysis, or software development, with a minimum of 3 years’ experience managing projects
Preferred Qualifications:
• PMP Certification
• PPM Tool experience
• Pharmaceutical experience
• Smartsheet experience
• Product Launch experience
Intake Notes:
Manager Key Items
1. Longevity, able to stay on assignment
2. Strong communication skills both written and oral, will report to stakeholders including up to Director level.
3. Able to understand work streams and understand where they intersect and anticipate integration issues
1) What hours and days will this person be working?
a. Monday to Friday, regular business hours (between 8 AM and 5 PM)
2) What are the top 5 skills/requirements this person is required have?
a. Experience leading large, integrated software initiatives
b. Independent driver – ability to work outside of structured PMO
c. Experience working on multiple initiatives simultaneously
d. Strong communication skills both written and oral, will report to stakeholder including up to Director level.
e. Able to understand work streams and understand where they intersect and anticipate integration issues
3) What are 3-4 Nice to Have skills, but not required?
a. PMP Certification
b. Digital Marketing Experience
c. Salesforce Healthcloud and Marketing Cloud Experience
d. Material review experience
e. Experience as Business Analyst / Technology Lead
4) What years of experience, education, and/or certification is required?
a. Bachelor degree in Business, Information Systems/Computer Science or related discipline
b. At least 7 years experience in project management, business systems analysis, or software development, with a minimum of 3 years’ experience managing projects
5) What is the environment that this person will be working in (i.e. group setting vs individual role)?
a. Individual in terms of setting own plans and deadlines and working outside of a structured PMO and process, group setting in terms of the projects having 8+ workstreams with different leads and PMs across each, and including agency and vendor partners to pull through successfully
6) Does this position offer the ability to work remotely on a regular basis or is it an on-site role? If remote opportunity exists, what are the options (i.e. 1 day remote, 4 days on-site)?
a. On-site once office opens up, currently 100% remote
7) Other notable details from the hiring manager about this role
a. Learning agility will be an asset to get up to speed in this organization. Successful experience in different types of projects, technologies, and industries will be an asset.