Job Description
Our client, a major pharmaceutical company in New Brunswick NJ is seeking a Senior Project Manager on a long-term contracting basis
This role is hybrid 2-3 days per week onsite in their New Brunswick location.
Summary:
The IT Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing, and finalizing technology projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This role coordinates the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants to deliver projects according to plan, while managing resources, schedules, and stakeholder expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the planning and execution of large-scale digital integrations within commercial manufacturing in pharmaceutical domain, ensuring delivery of intended outcomes while fostering collaboration to refine ideas and identify new requirements, maximizing return on investment.
- The PM will be developing and overseeing plans for system integrations between LIMS and Veeva, Infinity & Maximo, system validations, QC Instrument Integrations; Coordinate system validations efforts.
- Experienced in agile, waterfall & hybrid project management.
- Identify dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to appropriate levels of management and stakeholders across assigned projects.
- Ensure project(s) deliverables, schedules, and financials adhere to established norms and are managed in alignment with departmental best practices across their assigned programs and projects.
- Periodically evaluate performance and develop action plans to ensure achievement of performance goals.
- Monitor and control schedule and financial health of their assigned programs and projects and provide actionable insights to key stakeholders.
- Proactively remove obstacles to drive assigned projects momentum and progress. Engage and energize the project teams.
- Plan and engage necessary resources across the enterprise to ensure successful completion of assigned projects.
- Actively engage stakeholders and project managers of problem projects to assist with identifying corrective actions.
- Develop weekly & other project status reports per communication plan established by the program manager/delivery lead.
Qualifications:
- MUST have 8-10+ years of STRONG Program / Project management experience in the Pharma industry and its associated regulatory processes and requirements leading large & complex projects & programs
- Certified PMP or equivalent is required
- MUST have 8-10+ years MS Project, SharePoint, Excel
- 7+ years of experience in IT project management within pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or a related industry.
- Knowledge of Quality Control (QC) processes and related regulatory standards, GxP standards.
- 7+ years experience implementing end-to-end build-out / application configuration
- 7+ years experience with system integrations between QC systems such as LIMS, Veeva, Infinity, Maximo, QC Lab Instruments.
- 7+ Experience with ALM - Application Lifecycle Management
- JIRA experience a plus
- A proactive self-starter with the ability to independently manage and oversee projects with minimal supervision after the initial knowledge transfer.
- Demonstrates strong decision-making skills, accountability, and the capability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, ensuring seamless project execution and delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate to a diverse audience at multiple levels within the company through various formats, such as presentations, written proposals, reports, correspondence, leading meetings, face-to-face dialogue, etc.,
- Experience with managing project cost, schedule, and quality management
- Excellent leadership skills, including team management and stakeholder engagement.
- Excellent communication & team management skills
- Strong ability to work cross-functionally and in multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated experience fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Proficient in conducting comprehensive risk assessments to identify project vulnerabilities.
- Skilled in developing and implementing mitigation plans to manage and reduce risks.
- Ability to adapt risk management strategies as project conditions evolve.
- Experience working with external Service Providers providing hosting and network services and managing offshore resources
- Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field; advanced degree or PMP certification preferred.
Pay: 99-104/hr.
Job #83013
Job Tags
Contract work, For contractors, Long term contract, 2 days per week, 3 days per week,