Project Manager

What IT Program & Project Management contributes to Cardinal Health

IT Program & Project Management is responsible for playing a key/critical role in realizing business value through the application of project management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet project objectives.

• Proven experience managing, large and high visibility, external pharma client efforts.

• Demonstrates knowledge of the project management initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling, and closing processes.

• Monitors performance and recommends scope, schedule, cost or resource adjustments

• connects short-term demands to long-term implications, in alignment with the supporting business case.

• Prioritizes multiple tasks while meeting deadlines

• communicates project status (health, forecast, issues, risks, etc.) to stakeholders in an open and honest fashion.

• Effectively balances competing project constraints including but not limited to scope, quality, schedule, funding, budget, resources, and risk, to manage project success.

• Connects project objectives to broader organizational goals.

• Provides input to contracts, reviews contracts to ensure completeness of scope and appropriate accountability based on role and/or responsibility.

• Negotiates with stakeholders to obtain the resources necessary for successful project execution.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and recommend solutions related to new product launches, product discontinuations, vendor integrations, and operational efficiencies among other potential services that provide value to our clients.

• Manage to project budget, scope, client deliverables, timelines, and artifacts daily.

• Project and Risk management through the use of RAIDD planning

• Anticipate client needs and proactively make program recommendations to enhance service value.

• Provide status and coordination to clients including, but not limited to, in-flight project status, issue tracking and resolution.

• Lead 3rd party vendor communication/coordination.

• Recommend technical changes/updates/enhancements to current platform and vendor integration landscape to further align with client’s strategy and industry advancements.

• Builds relationships with internal business owners to help streamline processes.

• Monitor team backlog and prioritize activities to deliver on time, on budget, on scope

• Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models

• Independently determines method for completion of new projects

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in related field or equivalent work experience is preferred

• 5-10 years experience in related field preferred

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products preferred

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Manages department operations and supervises professional employees, frontline supervisors and/or business support staff

• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals

• Ensures employees operate within guidelines

• Decisions have a short-term impact on work processes, outcomes, and customers

• Interacts with subordinates, peer customers and suppliers at various management levels may interact with senior management

• Interactions normally involves resolution of issues related to operations and/or projects

• Gains consensus from various parties involved

TRAINING AND WORK SCHEDULES: Your new hire training will take place 8:00am-5:00pm CST, mandatory attendance is required. 

This position is full-time (40 hours/week).  Employees are required to have flexibility to work any of our shift schedules during our normal business hours of Monday-Friday, 7:00am- 7:00pm CST.

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