Business Project Manager - FIXED TERM

Job Description

At CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies, we're driven by a unifying purpose to help people to experience life's beautiful moments. We are connected through our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing. As a leading global manufacturer of contact lenses, we are committed to helping improve the way people see each day. Through our diverse lens portfolio, we tackle the toughest vision challenges - including astigmatism, presbyopia, and childhood myopia. We offer the most complete collection of spherical, toric, and multifocal products available, enabling us to fit 99% of all contact wearers. Learn more at

Job Summary:

The Professional Affairs Project Manager supports the Professional Affairs organization by establishing, implementing, and managing internal systems, tools, and operational products that enable effective program execution. This role leads cross-functional project delivery with a focus on system development and optimization, internal product ownership, process standardization, and change management. The Project Manager ensures new and evolving Professional Affairs systems and ways of working are well-designed, adopted, and sustained through clear governance, stakeholder alignment, and ongoing performance tracking.

Responsibilities

• Delivers assigned projects within an agreed schedule
• Work with project stakeholders to assist in the definition of project scope, objectives, and success criteria
• Ensures effective delivery of the project roadmap, managing change effectively, understanding the value of the initiative and ensuring the appropriate level of transparency via KPI reporting and other communications
• Develop project tasks and resource requirements to deliver per identified project scope
• Manage changes to the project scope and project schedule; Report and escalate to management as needed
• Develops status reporting on projects and monitors metrics on risk, issues, quality, resources, and timelines
• Monitors and reviews progress against plan to effectively manage changes and ensure that delivery objectives are met
• Coordinates internal resources across internal teams to ensure task completion per the project plan
• Achieves improved operational excellence in delivery and increased early warning of issues and challenges, to allow enough time to solve or mitigate
• Ensures the project team is using the correct documents and following standard project management practices
• Coaches, develops, motivates, and manages project team to ensure optimal performance is achieved
  Attends appropriate team meetings to report on projects

Travel Requirements:

• None

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong oral and written communication skills in English, including presentation skills
• Capability to move quickly between strategic and tactical
• Must understand change management and adoption techniques
• Strong skills in budget development and management, with demonstrated ability to bring multiple projects in on time and on budget
• Intermediate skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project.
• Able to confidently calculate an acceptable amount of risk, as well as assess and manage issues (and opportunities) to projects to achieve the best possible outcome
• Maintain knowledge of project requirements and dependencies and ability to document these
• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple conflicting requirements
• Communicate effectively and efficiently across all levels of the organization
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail[JA1]

Work Environment:

• Hybrid office environment/setting.
• Sedentary to light physical effort necessary to perform the job

Experience:

• 5+ years' experience in managing multiple commercial projects
• Experience managing change during system implementations
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project, Teams[JA2] )

Familiar with platform/tools like Oracle, Salesforce, Tableau

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree

PMP / PRINCE II or other PM certification is a plus

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

For U.S. locations that require disclosure of compensation, the starting base pay for this role is between $71,285.00 and $95,046.00 per year and may include cost of living adjustments. The actual base pay includes many factors and is subject to change and modification in the future. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation and benefits.

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