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Senior Project Manager for our client in Cambridge, MAJob Title: Senior Project ManagerJob Location: Cambridge, MAJob Type: ContractJob Description:Pay Range $74.49hr - $79.49hrResponsibilities:- Lead project management efforts to support the implementation and continuous process improvement efforts related to scientific services and other R&D Operations initiatives.
- Act as the point of contact and subject matter expert for R&D Operations
- Ensures communication from the project team to all stakeholders of various functions and sub-teams as needed.
- This includes project reports, key activities, and timely alerts.
- Facilitate decision making, ensuring alignment with project team members, functional representatives, and other key stakeholders.
- Develop scenario alternatives, identifies risks, and propose mitigation plans, and manages variances in timings, resources and budget and ensures integrity of the R&D Operations portfolio and governance.
- Responsible for developing appropriate KPIs and measuring the success of each project/ service, ensuring engagement and that project priorities are communicated to all relevant stakeholders.
- Provide regular updates/highlights including KPIs and project alerts.
- Contributes actively to dashboards reporting for established Governance committees and ad-hoc meetings as requested.
- Act as a catalyst for productivity, monitoring the scientific community’s needs, sharing best practices, insights, ways of working and tools to enable scientific collaboration and R&D processes.
- Identifies issues to be raised with Head of Scientific Services for NA and Head of R&D NA- and proposes solutions and mitigation plans.
- Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering, Data Science or related discipline with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience (MBA preferred) across different functional groups preferred.
- Good knowledge of the R&D Biopharmaceutical industry, processes and ecosystems preferred.
- Project Management certification preferred, with demonstrated experience working with cross functional, diverse and multicultural teams.
- Proven leadership, capacity to coordinate several activities and stakeholders including external partners, if relevant.
- Expertise in managing large and complex projects and in managing global, multicultural development teams.
- 5-10 years of direct Project Management Experience.
- open to all industries/ non-pharma.
- Experience overseeing deliverables, creating process flow, managing project. timelines, addressing Issues/ barriers or escalations.
- MS Office – Visio, Smart sheets, or similar project software.
- Excel (intermediate – pivots are a must!).
- PowerPoint (ability to create) & Strong Presentation skills (will present to large groups).
- Business background operations background.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Ability to Lean quickly, and take the lead of a project or program.
- Strong business acumen, customer service orientation user-centric, very quick at responding.
- Critical thinker/ Problem Solving – Risk assessment.
- Strong organizational skills.
- 10+ years of Project Management experience.
- R& D experience is a plus.
- Top candidates will have certification coupled with years of experience in Agile, PMP, or Six Sigma.
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