Beschreibung
For our client, a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland, we are looking for a motivated and ambitious:
Senior SAP Project Manager
Project background:
The Pharma Informatics Clinical Supply Services team is looking for a highly skilled Sr. IT (SAP) Project Manager. In this role you will work closely with the business leads, end user community, technical teams, and service providers in global environment to provide the overall IT service. This candidate will be proactive, outgoing and detail-oriented with strong leadership skills, excellent problem solving and written/verbal communication skills. The Sr. IT (SAP) Project Manager is expected to deliver outstanding customer service while providing technical and application support knowledge.
As a Senior IT (SAP) Project Manager, the position will be responsible for leading the delivery of two projects and provide quality oversight. The Senior IT Project Manager is accountable for the successful delivery of solutions through effective planning and execution throughout all phases of project management methodology. This position is expected to ensure timely and effective communications are made to all levels of stakeholders including business sponsorship.
Project Background:
The senior project manager will manage Pharma Affiliates - Phase V project
The project is ongoing. Solution has already been implemented and now the project delivers solution to the affiliates in EU and APAC.
The purpose of this project is to extend the provision of a single validated solution for managing the clinical supply chain at more local affiliates allowing them to manage all local trials with the global system and enable full end-to-end batch traceability.
Clara-PA has already been rolled out to Canada, Russia, Germany, Spain, and to 10 countries in LATAM. During PA5, Affiliates from EU and APAC will Go Live in 2017 and 2018.
Tasks:
- Project Scope Management - Formulating and defining scope and objectives of the project in collaboration with the responsible Solution Owner and ensuring communication of project goals, schedule baselines, and business direction to all identified stakeholders
- Project Stakeholder/Communication Management - Identifying all relevant project stakeholders and establishing and implementing an appropriate communication plan to manage their requirements
- Project Delivery Primarily - Delivering the project on time, on approved (baseline) budget, within quality limits, and with the expected benefits, as defined at project entry and project baseline gates and through controlled and documented change management throughout project delivery, as needed
- Project Risk, Assumption, Issue and Dependency (RAID) Management - Actively managing risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID) by carefully assessing potential impacts in collaboration with the respective project teams and proposing appropriate mitigation actions. Is also responsible for identifying, actively managing and integrating with any dependent projects or activities.
- Project Planning, Tracking, Control & Reporting - Creating baseline project schedules and tracking the completion of project deliverables, tasks, activities and milestones. Providing accurate, timely and fit for purpose project status reports using established norms and reporting tools of the portfolio
- Team Building & Leadership - Organizing and supervising the appropriate involvement of project resources and actively managing and addressing the resolution of conflicts within the project team.
- Compliance - Directly accountable for ensuring compliance with project management methodology, SDLC, GxP and CSV. These norms will include all system qualification/validation state documentation, project documentation and resource forecasting/tracking, financial forecasting/tracking and governance procedures of the portfolio for the specific projects assigned
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience as a successful SAP Information Technology Project Manager using structured project management processes
- Deep understanding of SDLCs including Agile methodologies
- Demonstrated competency planning and tracking project schedules
- Proven ability to obtain results in a Matrix environment
- Track record of delivering projects on time and on budget
- Ability to see the interrelationship of a project across "the big picture" and understand its dependency on other projects in the program as required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills at all levels, within IT and Business teams
- Exceptional listening, problem solving, negotiation, and facilitation skills
- Proven leadership abilities and emotional intelligence
- Education: Relevant Bachelor's degree in CS, MIS; or equivalent experience
Nice to Have:
+ Pharma or Biotech experience
+ Experience delivering applications to support Clinical Supply Chain operations
Start date: 01.06.2017
End date: 28.01.2018 (plus possible extension)
Work location: Basel (10% travel required in EU and APAC)
Are you interested to work in this challenging position? Alessia Biassoli, Talent Resourcer, is looking forward to receiving your complete profile. Please send an e-mail (see below)