Description
Hi,I'm looking for an experienced Project Manager Multi Channel Marketing with Strong Pharmaceutical Marketing business consulting skills and domain knowledge in USA.
Role/Skill/Task:
- Experienced Project Leader (multi-channel marketing)
- Define strategy and tactics to manage multiple digital channels including
social media, define operational processes and platforms to support.
- Project Leader will work in close collaboration with our Relationship Manager,
Marketing Agencies and our Business Digital and Social Media Director
* Managing projects
- Managing complex IT projects in a highly developed environment
- Proactively building and maintaining a stable, trusting relationship with
customers/project sponsors
- Planning the resources required to successfully introduce the systems:
estimating the labor and capital expenditure required; performing feasibility studies
- Reporting regularly on the project’s progress: Indicating problems and risks;
recommending corrective action
- Coordinating, escalating and following up on complaints
- Ensuring that projects are implemented in a timely fashion, meeting the
stipulated targets for cost and quality
- Organizing the project team’s tasks
- Administering the comprehensive project budget
- Handling client expectations in a professional manner
* Analyzing, evaluating, defining, developing (redeveloping)
- Analyzing the area of responsibility with regard to current and future system
requirements
- Analyzing business processes and designing new ones
- Identifying, recommending and implementing innovative service and system
solutions for area of responsibility
- Ensuring cost-effective, state-of-the-art IT solutions (for example, by exploiting
synergies)
* Process optimization & market monitoring
- Identifying problems and opportunities within processes, independently seeking
solutions with the involvement of other colleagues and clients
- Keeping track of technical developments in the area of expertise and applying new
technical developments to the situation within the company and driving the corresponding pilot trials forward
* Project Leadership
- Is accountable to maintain a good relationship between IS and business based on
an excellent understanding of business drivers and a good interpersonal relationship
- Assures alignment of IT with business requirements and strategies and is responsible for designing the business IT strategy
- Acts as a key communication partner for the business according to communication matrix, is capable of acting as lead communication partner where agreed with Information Manager
- Assists the owner of the business project portfolio (Information Manager RM) in his
Pharma responsibility
- Collects service level requirements and future business demands with regard to projects as well as services (service portfolio)
- Drives improvements in process, methodology and management of requirements and acceptance criteria for team
- Influences change to support more innovative or efficient ways of doing IS-Pharmaceuticals business
- Manages demand and expectations of business by promoting the service portfolio of IS and by explaining IT capabilities and restrictions and implications out of the agreed overall IT strategy in agreement or alignment with Information Manager, RM.
- Delivers input to service owners during the design, implementation and change of services to make sure that services meet the needs of the business by helping to translate the business demands into "IT Service" requirements
- Ensures adequate consideration of business requirements and priorities within service and project portfolio
- May participate in SLA negotiation with the customer in alignment with the service owner and Information Manager, RM (incl. agreement on charges/budget) and manages business expectations
- Supports Information Manager, RM in preparing annual IT plans (operative planning) and in developing strategic IT plans with customers.
* Consultation
- Maintains contact with clients and offers (technical) advice and support; pursuing solutions above and beyond his/her own area of expertise
- Translating recurring issues and problems into fundamental solutions
* Dealing with external partners
- Commissioning, steering and monitoring external service providers
* Organizational tasks: Training & leadership
- Managing temporarily assigned staff in technical matters (supporting trainees/staff
joining projects)
* Required education and professional experience
- Proof of specialist knowledge at the university graduate, level, e.g.
- University graduate with doctorate in the required specialization and
- Additional specialist knowledge and Extensive professional experience
* Required professional qualifications
- Extensive IT skills
- Pronounced consultancy skills
- Pronounced project management skills
- Pronounced change management skills
* Languages
- Superb command of written and spoken English
- A very good command of the local language, both written and spoken
* SOP / SLA Comprehension
- Pronounced knowledge of all IT processes
* Knowledge of the business
- Pronounced knowledge of the company (e.g. corporate guidelines, strategy and values)
and sound knowledge of the sector
* Personal requirements:
* Management & social skills
- Superb social skills, especially in terms of
- Teamwork
- Client orientation
- Communication skills
- Strategic orientation
- Results orientation
- Change and innovation
- Leadership skills
* Education and professional experience
- University degree or equivalent in Computer Sciences or Business Administration
- 5-year experience in application delivery or development
- 3-year experience within an international environment
* Skills and competencies
- Strong Pharmaceutical Marketing business consulting skills and domain knowledge
- Good technical background of IT solutions and IT industry trends
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal and team building skills
- Good written and oral communication skills
- MCM Strategy Skills (excellent)
- Senior Project Leader (excellent)
- Industry specific skills Pharmaceutical (excellent)
Language skill: English (business fluent), German (nice to have)
Location: Maine Coastal Region (USA)
Duration: 24.02.2014 - 31.12.2014, in total 200 days
If you are available and interested please forward your in Word format cv to