Head of Project Management

Job Description
Initiate and Plan Project: Works with business and IT management to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives, financials and deliverables. Responsible for building the plan and resource needs to accomplish the scope.

Responsibilities

Project Control: Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect the project, working with business and IT management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution. Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget.

Executing and Closing Project: Develops and executes a work plan obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed. Lead the team in delivering project scope. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.

Project Communication: Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate program status and decision support information to project teams, business, and IT management. Make recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues and manage risks.

Resource and Team Management: Coordinate resources to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively assign tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities. Motivate project team to deliver project outcomes.

Quality Management: Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and functional policies and procedures.

Decisions: Make decisions that impact project level activities. Influence or have final decision authority for project budget.

Financial Control: Develops and manages a financial plan with multi-million dollars spend. Tracks actual spend, accruals, proactively creates spend estimates on a regular basis (at least monthly) and coordinates estimates and invoices with project vendors, in order to maintain spend at +/- 10% of the overall project budget.

Skills and Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Systems/Computer Science or related discipline.

Proven Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word skills are required.

8-10 years' experience in project management.

Experience managing SDLC projects.

Experience managing validated systems.

Preferred Qualifications

MP Certification

Tool experience

Pharmaceutical experience

Clarity experience (or whatever the vendor's name is)

JIRA / Confluence experience

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