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ID #15546611
State Illinois
City Lakecounty
Job type Contract
Salary USD $80 - $85 80 - 85
Source SPECTRAFORCE TECHNOLOGIES Inc.
Showed 2021-06-17
Date 2021-06-16
Deadline 2021-08-15
Category Et cetera
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Sr. Project Manager (IT projects in a Pharma environment)

Illinois, Lakecounty 00000 Lakecounty USA

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Position Title: Sr. Project Manager (IT projects in a Pharma environment)

Length of Contract: 12 months

Location/Site: Lake County, IL -Remote until contractors are allowed to be back on site later this summer

Description Details

Primary Function:Develop, execute and manage large, more complex project(s) within the defined scope. Manage a variety of interrelated project activities and lead all aspects of the project life-cycle, working with project sponsors/key stakeholders, team members, and management to oversee all phases of project completion. Build and manage project’s work breakdown structure, milestones, risks, issues, and deliverables within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of the project. Ensure transparent reporting of project status, issues, risks, and financials.

Key Responsibilities:
  • 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.
  • 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. Leads 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. Makes 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. Motivates project team in order 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. Influences or has final decision authority for project budget.
  • Financial Control: Develops and manages a large financial plan with multi-million dollar spend over multiple years. 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.

What are the top 3-5 skills requirements should this person have?
  • Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Systems/Computer Science or related discipline.
  • At least 10 years of proven experience with driving projects through various phases of a system development lifecycle (SDLC), using Waterfall and Agile Methodologies as appropriate
  • At Least 5 years of experience managing significant IT projects in a Pharma environment
  • Must have managed Project budgets in excess of $1MM
  • Must have demonstrable Executive Presence
  • Must have a strong understanding of Cloud Computing and can provide evidence of having managed projects involving SaaS, IaaS, and/or PaaS
  • Experience managing ITIL Demand/Release/Change using Service Now as the requisite Service Management tool
  • Proven Microsoft Office skills are required.
  • Individual must be able to work full time on-site (North Chicago).

What is a nice to have (but not required) regarding skills, requirements, experience, education, or certification
  • PMP Certification (not required but preferred)
  • PPM Tool experience including, but not limited to, Broadcom Clarity v15, Microsoft Project Professional 2013, and Microsoft Project Server
  • Experience, in a Pharma environment, managing Enterprise application development and/or application integration/migration projects, requiring an understanding of enterprise Cloud based database management systems and terminology
  • Are you open to look at candidates willing to relocate? They must be able to work onsite once COVID restrictions are lifted
  • Work Schedule: Monday to Friday
  • Does this position offer the ability to work remotely on a regular basis or is it an on-site role? Individual must be able to work full time on-site (North Chicago).
Discovery Questions
  • Reason for opening: Increase in workload
Interview Process
  • Please define your required Interview Process: Manager will pre-screen-Interviews will be conducted by 3 peers (30 min each-MS Teams video)

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