Sr. Project Manager

Job Title - Sr. Project Manager

Location - Chicago and Eastward

Duration – 12+ Months Contract

Total Hours/week - 40.00
1st Shift

Location candidate can be in; Chicago and Eastward
VIDEO AND QUESTIONNAIRE REQUIRED WITH SUBMITTAL

o Questions for VIDEO:
§ 1. Provide your project experience with R&D/Clinical
§ 2. Provide your project experience in the technical space.
§ 3. Explain your engagement with 2 or more simultaneous projects

Sr. Project Manager Job Description
Qualifications Must Have:
• 10+ years overall project management experience.
• 5+ years leading global cross-functional corporate projects requiring business changes
• Experience managing R&D/Clinical projects
• Good technical background – from the point of understanding scope and architecture and knowing where to drive the team
• Good overall understanding of the PM role aligned with the specific needs for two projects understanding allocation limits

Nice to Have:
• Medical Affairs project experience

Preferred:
• PMP, or PgPM PMI Certification or equivalent
• BS in Business Administration/Computer Sciences/Engineering or related degree that provides strong PM skill development.

Summary
The Senior Project Manager works with executive and director level business leaders to understand the strategic objectives for major business change initiatives and define the tactical projects to realize these objectives. The Senior Project Manager leads the projects through building effective relationships with business leaders, project team and project stakeholders. The Senior Project Manager drives the delivery of the projects through advanced project management techniques and methodologies. The Senior Project Manager balances the demands of multiple medium/large projects ($.5M - $1M) or larger programs ($1M-$10M).

Responsibilities
• Establish project governance structures and define processes for reporting, review, and approval of project goals and objectives.
• Partners with project sponsors and stakeholders to define project objectives and business case.
• Leads full life cycle project delivery for multiple medium/large project or larger programs.
• Takes ownership for delivering project objectives and deliverables. Drives project execution to meet project schedule, cost and quality requirements.
• Manages internal and external customer relationships to realize high customer satisfaction for their projects.
• Manages multiple workstreams within project to meet project objectives, executing and delivering quality results within project timeline and budget.
• Implements company and industry best practice project methodology for delivering their projects.
• Supports EPPM management in refining project management practices and implementing them throughout the ePMO.
• Mentors project managers and project coordinators in project management best practices.

Competencies
• Stakeholder Relationship – demonstrated ability to identify key project stakeholders and understand their goals and motivations for the project. Adept at building stakeholder confidence that the project is meeting their needs through positive relationship management.
• Leadership Skills and Presence - capable of building a leadership presence that inspires project stakeholders and team members to achieve the project objectives. Proactive in driving creative resolutions to project issues and risk. Team and people management leadership skills.
• Team Building - experienced building cross functional teams in multiple geographies and diverse cultural backgrounds. Effective in creating a positive working environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Driven to enable the project team to surface and resolve issues that affect project delivery.
• Business Acumen – seasoned understanding of the business drivers in multiple disciplines that influence project success. Solid business judgement to help drive decision making to reduce project risk and achieve project results.

Skills and Knowledge

Project Management Methodology
• Knowledgeable in project management industry best practices.
• Demonstrated experience driving projects from initiation through closure.
• Adept at partnering with business sponsors and stakeholder to shape the project business case and gain organizational support and approval.
• In depth understanding of the detailed project planning processes and tools. Skilled in establishing detailed scope, schedule, resources, and budget using standard project tools (MS Project/SharePoint/etc.).
• Experienced establishing Stakeholder management plans, Risk/issue management plans, Vendor management plans and Quality plans.
• Experienced establishing and following controls to manage scope change and reporting project schedule/budget performance.
• Proactive in surfacing risks and issues. Ability to engage project team and stakeholder community to resolve issues and define risk mitigations. Effective in developing clear problem statements and resolution options for escalation to project sponsors and management.
• Clear understanding of the processes to define and validate acceptance criteria for the project to ensure project completion acceptance.
• Experience in Regulatory Assessment processes and document submission

Business Change Management
• Understands the dynamics of implementing change in the business environment.
• Experienced in helping the business team plan and drive change into their organization.
• General knowledge of the techniques for designing changes to business processes impacted by the project.
• Understanding how education, training and communications drive the effectiveness of the solution. Experienced working with business team members to ensure effective delivery to the impacted organizations.

Interpersonal Skills
• Superior English-language verbal and written communications skills to interact with executive, business leaders and team members.
• Ability to lead effective meetings/workshops. Creating meeting objectives, agendas, and timely distribution of meeting minutes.
• Ability to manage meeting discussions to achieve meeting objectives and timeline.
• Experienced in the techniques to work in a virtual/cross cultural meeting environment
• Excellent time management skills. Able to work on multiple concurrent activities. Able to prioritize personal workload and team-work load to optimize project delivery.