Beschreibung
For our client, a pharmaceutical company in Basel, we are looking for a:
Senior Project Manager - Pharma clinical Operations
Background:
Our client is seeking an experienced professional to successfully manage a global IT project within Pharma Clinical Operations, namely the Integration and Adoption of a Study Site Portal.
The position's primary role is to effectively manage objectives, scope, time, quality, resources, costs, risks and change management for the overall project consisting of two solutions with different timelines. The secondary role is to contribute to the deliverables creation (eg project documentation) and depending on the candidate Business Analysis or Solution Architecture activities.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Develops project charters, comprehensive plans, budgets, success criteria, metrics, status reporting, communications and other deliverables to ensure all success factors have been considered
- Proactively manages project towards achievement of business objectives while adhering to agreed scope, time, quality and budget; may manage resources directly to execute project activities
- Anticipates critical activities and risks, identifies issues and demonstrates initiative to appropriately escalate and resolve
- Formulates risk mitigation strategies and recommend solutions
- Effectively communicates progress, status, dependencies and risk to stakeholders so that necessary corrective actions can be taken to keep project on track
- Demonstrates leadership and communicates in a way that is motivating, optimistic and pragmatic; fosters teamwork, collaboration and action
- Work with a team based in San Francisco
- Work with vendor(s) for all vendor-owned implementation activities who are working remotely offsite
- Partners with others to develop and implement best practices for project management, development life cycle; maintains templates, guidelines and process documentation
- Be a resource for understanding the necessary steps (eg investment rational, project management, change management, post project evaluation) to go from inception to realization of better business outcomes
- Build strong partnerships and relationships, across the organization and externally, that lead to the highest levels of collaboration and effectiveness
- Ensure compliance to departmental SDLC, internal Project Management Methodologies and Computer Systems Validation (CSV) SOPs
Must Haves:
- Proven experience with 8 plus years managing a diversity of IT projects preferably implementing projects within Pharma clinical operations
- Ability to manage the project across global locations/time zones and to travel internationally as needed
- Experience deploying CSV and GxP validated systems to a globally distributed stakeholders and end-users preferred
- Excellent oral and written English communication skills, as well as presentation and facilitation abilities
- Strong working knowledge of formal project management and SDLC (System Development Lifecycle) methodologies, tools and techniques
- Proven experience with a variety of techniques for requirements elicitation, analysis and definition (eg functional specifications, business process engineering, data flow diagrams, use case analysis)
- Ability to see the interrelationship of a project across "the big picture" and understand its dependency on other projects in the program as required
- Demonstrated success communicating across a variety of audiences, including business people and technologists (both up and down the organization)
- Experienced managing offshore contract resources
Start date: Latest 07.05.2018
End date: 31.12.2018 (+ possible extension)
Location: Basel area
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)