Job Title: Web Project Manager
Location: Plymouth Meeting, PA
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: 12 Months
About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest-growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.
Position Description
The Project Manager role is the liaison with assigned functional area for the purpose of business and digital alignment, business technology strategy support, solution discovery, service management and relationship management.
Core components of this role
1. Experience of working with web technologies, both technical teams and the core customer base (product teams, marketing teams, agencies)
2. Understand the global demand for Product website work and organize it into a plan
3. Serve as key liaison with the marketing/product teams in different countries to ensure we understand timing, high level requirements and time lines
4. Create & manage delivery schedule with Web Team leads, in order to deliver on schedule
5. Adopt good and appropriate project management practices to ensure communications, risks, issues, resources & schedule management is clear to all stakeholders
6. Drive agile practices into the delivery model where it makes sense
Your future duties and responsibilities
• Lead project planning sessions ensuring involvement and presence of required stakeholders from Business and I&T. Manage various sized, diverse and geographically distributed project teams and ensure a healthy environment and culture of transparency and collaboration.
• Responsible for the preparation and management of project budgets, sensitivities, resources, project timelines, project scope, risk and all other project documentation. Oversee all incoming and outgoing project documentation, ensuring all documents follow the I&T standards, templates and frameworks.
• Collaborates with Program Sponsor and stakeholders to understand requirements, priorities and business imperatives. Secure growth opportunities and initiate new projects where possible.
• Manage project progress and highlight any risk proactively and ensure risk mitigation plan in place.
• Ensure timely communication of project updates, timelines and any roadblocks in the form of status reports using standard templates. Ensure project budget is managed and not exceeded without an exception. Review the project budget and project plan regularly with required stakeholders, to avoid budget overruns and maintain transparency and collaboration.
• Participate in the procurement of new solution process, i.e., design, submission and review as required.
• Conduct detailed project review, retrospectives and detailed reports for executive and leadership team. Ensure regular evaluation of the project priorities with the stakeholders to ensure the sprint backlog is realigned based on any changed business priority or market condition.
• Responsible for framing the portfolio in language of business, providing clear choices and path for decision-making. Identify areas of improvement through value/KPI monitoring.
• Convene, educate and engage key stakeholders on the business implications of portfolio decisions. Activity and resources planning for current and future projects, ensure the scope is defined and managed iteratively per spring, set realistic time estimates and evaluate team's capabilities and availability. Mentor more junior team members and identify resource gaps.
• Optimize and improve project management and project delivery processes and overall approach where necessary.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
• PMP certificate required
• 7+ years IT experience
• Experience working within GXP environment
• Experience managing IT projects within a global environment using formal project management methodology, techniques and tools
• Demonstrated leadership experience including influencing senior management and critical stakeholders
• Pharma/Biotech or similarly regulated environment experience desirable
Skill Set Years of Experience Proficiency Level
IT 7+ Expert
Web Design 5+ Good
Commercial Product Launch 3+ Good
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/NON-ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED
• Thorough understanding of project/program management techniques and methods
• Drive a continuous improvement mindset and developing a culture of collaboration and partnership to align all areas of strategy and performance so there is a seamless and shared information flow.
• Strategic and tactical enterprise-wide view of the business knowledge of strategy, processes, and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations, workshop facilitation and delivery, and other non-traditional forms of communication – capable of framing the problem in a meaningful and applicable manner
• Collaborative mindset able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
• Strong situational analysis, decision making abilities and relationship management with key stakeholders across the organization
• Proven leadership, especially situational leadership, in managing within a complex matrix environment
• Candidate should have experience with project forecasting and budgeting processes. Experience with portfolio management tools used for project planning, forecasting and reporting is also required. Clarity ® specific portfolio management tool experience is desirable.
Employment Practices:
EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant
VLink is an equal opportunity employer. At VLink, we are committed to embracing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. VLink does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, or discharge, will be decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, performance, and business needs.