Senior Project Manager

Basel  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Reference No.:
915724SC/RF

Industry:
Pharma

Location:
Basel and region

Start Date:


Duration:
End of 2017

Workload:
100%

About us:
ITech Consult AG is a Swiss IT consultancy firm which was founded in 1997 by IT professionals. Our Pay rolling is referred by 98% of our freelancers as the best Pay rolling system in Switzerland. Do you require more information? Feel free to contact us

Role:
The position's primary role is to effectively manage objectives, scope, time, quality, resources, costs, risks and change management for the overall project consisting of both solutions with different timelines. The secondary role is to contribute to the deliverables creation (e.g. project documentation) and depending on the candidate Business Analysis activities.
  • Develops project charters, comprehensive plans, budgets, success criteria, metrics, status reporting, communications and other deliverables to ensure all success factors have been considered
  • Proactively manages project towards achievement of business objectives while adhering to agreed scope, time, quality and budget; may manage resources directly to execute project activities
  • Anticipates critical activities and risks, identifies issues and demonstrates initiative to appropriately escalate and resolve
  • Formulates risk mitigation strategies and recommend solutions
  • Effectively communicates progress, status, dependencies and risk to stakeholders so that necessary corrective actions can be taken to keep project on track
  • Demonstrates leadership and communicates in a way that is motivating, optimistic and pragmatic; fosters teamwork, collaboration and action
  • Work with a Business Project Manager based in the USA
  • Work with a vendor for all vendor-owned implementation activities who are working remotely offsite (based in EST or Asia)
  • Partnering with others to develop and implement best practices for project management, development life cycle; maintaining templates, guidelines and process documentation
  • Be a resource for understanding the necessary steps (e.g. investment rational, project management, change management, post project evaluation) to go from inception to realization of better business outcomes
  • Build strong partnerships and relationships, across the organization and externally, that lead to the highest levels of collaboration and effectiveness
  • Ensure compliance to Project Management Methodologies and Computer Systems Validation (CSV) SOPs


Requirements:
  • Proven experience with 8 plus years managing a diversity of IT projects preferably in clinical investigator site portals and integration projects
  • Ability to manage the project across global locations/time zones and to travel internationally as needed
  • Excellent oral and written English communication skills, as well as presentation and facilitation abilities
  • Very strong working knowledge of formal project management, tools and techniques
  • Proven experience with a variety of techniques for requirements elicitation, analysis and definition (e.g. functional specifications, business process engineering, data flow diagrams, use case analysis)
  • Ability to see the interrelationship of a project across "the big picture" and understand its dependency on other projects in the program as required
  • Demonstrated success communicating across a variety of audiences, including business people and technologists (both up and down the organization)
  • Experienced managing off shore contract resources


Nice to Haves:

+++ Experience within the Pharma industry, specifically implementation and adoption and/or integration of applications such as investigator site portals solutions that support Clinical Operations would be highly preferred but is not a must have

+++ Experience deploying CSV and GxP validated systems to a globally distributed stakeholders and end-users preferred
Start date
05/2016
Duration
end of 2017
From
ITech Consult AG
Published at
08.04.2016
Project ID:
1106460
Contract type
Freelance
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