**Work Schedule**
Standard (Mon-Fri)
**Environmental Conditions**
Office
Essential Functions and Other Job Information:
- 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 achievements.
- Plans and manages budgets associated with technology projects.
- Evaluates percentage complete, tracks actuals to budget and mitigates overspend, tunes resource model to adhere to budget guidelines.
- Collaborates with the business teams on value measurements and benefits realization compared to baselines.
- Ensures risks/issues are surfaced and mitigated, increasing 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 acumen
- Excellent social skills, including the ability to work across the organization and interact/influence/negotiate effectively at all levels
- Critical thinker with solid judgment and strong initiativeProven 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, optimally prioritize own and project team members workload
- Strong verbal and written communication, time management, and interpersonal skills