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Job Description
The Project/Program Specialistwill provide project oversight for the Quality Systems and Lab Automation group, focusing primarily on budgeting, forecasting, and financial tracking. This position will work with IT Functional leads and the Program Management Office to perform these financial tasks as they relate to IT projects.
The Project/Program Specialistwill also be responsible for more traditional BA tasks in order to deliver high-quality requirements in a project or in the management of systems. These responsibilities will be business facing, focused on ensuring compliance of the current systems for data integrity, audit readiness, and working with the business to assess new systems vs corporate standards and regulatory expectations. The span of the position includes but may not be limited to, Quality Assurance/ Quality Control laboratory and enterprise systems as well as manufacturing applications
This individual will:
- Review and manage budget forecast with the project management team
- Track actual project spend and perform monthly accruals
- Adjust project budget to meet departmental reforecasting, as necessary
- Review SOW’s and ensure project invoicing is consistent with SOW commitments
- Work with IT procurement as necessary for new requisitions or changes to existing ones
- Support IT Functional Leads during the preparation of annual project planning activities.
- Assist developing business cases/justification for projects in order to determine the investment value.
- Work in a team and serve as tactical IT liaison to the business through building and fostering a partnership.
- Demonstrate strong understanding of the business area and its supporting technology as well as broad understanding of overall business unit.
- Ensure solution delivery meets business need and expectation through business requirement gathering.
- Gather and validate business needs to translate into requirements for technical team.
- Work with technical teams to develop technical requirements and solutions.
- Be proactive in identifying solutions or opportunities that can help improve Business processes.
- Be point of contact for business focused application questions and be able to identify and leverage resources across IT
- Model and enhance business process diagrams and other related models to capture business operations change requirements within defined opportunities or projects, modeling both current and future state, typically using a graphical BPA or business process modeling tool.
- Document or map business processes targeted for change via approved projects, both current and future state. Determine and document the impact of process changes for the process owner.
- Define the needed business cases with project team and process owner, defining business outcomes, including current baseline and future target metrics, such as leading and lagging indicators, and linking to strategic key performance indicators (KPIs). Document business requirements for system enhancements and collaborate with IT to ensure effective development and testing needed for successful solution deployment.
Qualifications
- B.S. degree (in science, engineering or business), with related business discipline experience. M.B.A. or other advanced degree in business or social sciences is a plus.
- Experience with life sciences systems within the Biotech/Pharmaceutical industry.
- 3 - 5 years of IT project management, especially as related to financial tracking.
- Specific experience with project and financial tracking tools such as Hyperion, Markview, Oracle Business Intelligence, Microsoft Project Online.
- Knowledge of project tracking and reporting, familiarity with applications such as Hyperion.
- In depth knowledge of business functional area with strong understanding of business unit (Or if new to business area, shows strong learning agility to achieve in depth knowledge).
- Understands the technology offerings applicable to the business when assisting in the design of solutions.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Vacancy expired!