Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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, Power Point, Outlook, Excel, Word, etc. and Visio
 Strong verbal and written communication, time management, and interpersonal skills