Project Manager - Scientific PMO

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Job Description

Essential Functions

• Manages and leads projects to deliver the intended business benefits according to timelines, budget and quality standards.
• Directs activities of global cross-functional teams and works with organization to ensure project dependencies are identified and communicated.
• Creates program timelines as well as detailed project plans; assesses Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), resource loading, dependencies, and milestones.
• Plans and manages budgets associated with technology projects.
• Evaluates percentage complete, supervises actuals to budget and mitigates overspend, tunes resource model to adhere to budget guidelines.
• Collaborates with the business teams on ROI measurements and benefits realization compared to baselines.
• Ensures risks/issues are surfaced and mitigated, escalating information and recommending issue resolution as appropriate.
• Ensures project team compliance with organization policies, SOPs, ICH-GCP, regulatory and project specific requirements.
• Supervises external vendors

Qualifications:

• Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency in the key principles of cross-functional project management (ex: time, quality, cost)
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma, Agile and Scrum methodologies  Familiar with formal organizational change processes and methods (Prosci or similar approach)
• Strong financial acuity
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization and interact/influence/negotiate effectively at all levels
• Critical thinker with solid judgment and strong initiative
• Proven track record to lead and influence collaboration across multiple and diverse groups
• Strong leadership and teamwork abilities
• Ability to work independently and be a creative and innovative problem solver  Ability to delegate, effectively prioritize own and project team members workload
• Ability to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications such as Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Word, etc. and Visio
• Strong verbal and written communication, time management, and interpersonal skills