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Informatics Project Manager

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Oct 2023

About the role

Location: Cambridge, MA

Zifo is searching for an experienced Project Manager to manage one of Zifo’s strategic multi-year programs for a marquee customer based out of the West Coast. The program manager role would serve in customer’s PMO working with a resource group comprising of customer SMEs, Business Owners, Informatics Solution Owners, IT Teams, external customer groups such as Validation and GXP process groups and 3rd party vendor partner teams.

Responsibilities:

You will partner with the Business Systems owner in executing a slew of development projects involving Benchling ELN platform
Assist in developing a Platform Feature Development lifecycle with the objective of seamless and efficient adoption of Benchling as the Informatics platform of choice, specifically
- Define the work intake process
- Define work execution prioritization criteria
- Keep track multiple and concurrent development tracks for the risk and issues and own their mitigation
- Identify cross dependencies and promote efficiency across parallel workstreams
- Develop and implement visualization capabilities to represent project execution status and other key project metrices
- Develop MIS reports for both tactical and executive consumption
- Develop and report key program execution operational metrices, identify efficiency improvement levers and their implementation
- Have a purview of the operational support work done by the Zifo team in the engagement and provide required inputs, assistance, and guidance
- Monitor vendor project execution and ensure their alignment for the project portfolio execution plan and adherence to schedule, scope and budget
- Adopt an agile approach to project execution with the objective to improve transparency of program status and reduce operational inefficiencies
- Periodically review the effectiveness of the intake and prioritization process and suggest optimization steps

Required Skills:

Advanced level knowledge in tools such as JIRA, Smartsheet, MS Project and MS Office Suite
Experience working in consultative program management roles define project execution strategies
Experience in preparing status and other operational reports for consumption across various levels of leadership
Strong analytical skills to make decisions with available data/information at hand
Strong Written and Oral communication skills
Strong negotiation skills to work with competing business priorities to arrive at an execution roadmap in line with the business strategy and roadmap
Adept in building relationships across various levels the organization, within and outside of the working groups
Understanding of Drug Discovery & Development processes
Exposure/working knowledge of Lean or similar process optimization methodologies

Qualifications:

Minimum of 8 years of experience in independently managing large scale projects / programs
Project Management Certification preferably PMI-ACP, PMI-PgMP or PMI-PMP)
Minimum of 5 years of experience in executing project in Agile methodologies such as SCRUM and possess expertise on all aspects of Program Management
Experience working with multidisciplinary teams located across varies geographies
Experience in managing projects involved in multiple Systems Integration preferably including 3rd party COTS products
Independent, Self-Motivated & Results driven individual
Willingness & ability to acquire quickly new Technical Skills & Business Principles
Prior experience working as Business Analyst in documenting and eliciting requirements / Use Cases
Prior exposure to Pharmaceutical or Biotech Research and Development industry
Possess good Understanding of Drug Discovery & Development processes
Exposure/working knowledge of Lean or similar process optimization methodologies