Senior Project / Program Manager - Pharma

Location: Cambridge, MA/East Coast

Zifo is looking for a Senior Project/Program Manager with experience in validated systems application development and GxP processes for a client in Cambridge, MA. The Project Manager will be responsible for the delivery of various technical solutions.

Requirements

High level PM Job Description:
 

• Develop an end-to-end project management plan using formal tools such as Microsoft Project or Jira.
• Create project artifacts, such as project plans, measures, team and stakeholder communications, status reports, resource, and time management.
• Set a cadence for project team meetings and steering committee meetings. Schedule meetings, document minutes and action items
• Execute the project plan, monitor scope, milestones, dependencies, cost, project reporting, RAID, communication, escalations
• Understanding of the GxP process and closely monitor the project scope change through formal change control mechanism.
• Manage project financials such as forecast and monitor them against the project budget. Develop project or program budgets.
• Adhere to project governance activities as outlined by the S&O.

 
General Project Management Skills:

• Ultimately responsible to manage high priority projects with many stakeholders and several smaller workstreams to meet company needs. Projects are both technical and non-technical or technical in nature.
• Responsible for managing risks, communications, budgets, procurement, timelines, resources, quality and scope in executing projects within the Project Management Methodology
• Ensure projects are implemented within stated goals and timelines.
• Will prepare and/or present data, results and reports to peers, project managers, and management. Comfortable interacting with and presenting to all levels of management
• Anticipates and resolves conflicts with a win-win mentality
• Able to concurrently manage multiple projects and priorities, using best practices and industry standards
• Be an expert in Project Management within the corporate and a matrixed environment 

Technical PM Responsibility:

• Manage/lead entire project or service including technical solution, implementation, support and quality. Understand and direct/participate in all phases of project implementation on large projects
• Prioritize work and schedules
• Review project team deliverables to ensure quality (design walk-through, test results, etc.) and adherence to standards/ regulatory requirements
• Interact with customers to understand their business and to anticipate IT solutions based on business and technical knowledge. Manage (educate and influence) the business project sponsor
• Participate in the budget process and be accountable for project budget on small/medium size projects.
• Provide direct supervision and mentoring of project team member's during the project. Provide project performance feedback to the team member's supervisor/manager
• Participate in the research, analysis, selection, and implementation of new tools, technologies and/or services

In delivery to the Project Management Office:

• As a change agent, works with a cross functional teams to develop and deploy new business process and improve existing business processes.
• May collect data to monitor & report on the progress of project(s); then assembles the preliminary analysis of the data
• Assesses project or business process issues and develop solutions in order to meet objectives, which may include quality, customer satisfaction, productivity and costs
• Using project management tools, develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers and other manufacturing managers
• Approves team deliverables for project completion and focuses teams on ensuring completion of deliverables based on agreed to timelines

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree or equivalent in a Life Sciences or IT field is mandatory
• Minimum 10 years experience as a Business Technology Consultant/Project Manager
• Minimum 10 years experience managing large, complex, validated system application development projects / programs with large scale
• Minimum 5 years of experience working with Customer/Client focused delivery model & Global solution deployment, preferably in the pharmaceutical /Life sciences industry
  

A successful Zifo-ite is:

• Independent, Self-Motivated & Results driven
• Willing & able to quickly