IT Project Manager - Pharma/ clinical operations


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Michael Bailey Associates

Listed on

3rd April 2018

Location

Aargau

Salary/Rate

negotiable

Salary Notes

negotiable

Type

Contract

Start Date

asap

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For our life science client we are currently looking for a

IT Project Manager - Pharma/ clinical operations

Start date: asap

End date: 31.12.2018

Location: Basel area

Workload: 80-100%

Main tasks:

* Develop project charters, comprehensive plans, budgets, success criteria, metrics, status reporting, communications and other deliverables to ensure all success factors have been considered

* Proactively manage project towards achievement of business objectives while adhering to agreed scope, time, quality and budget;

* Anticipate critical activities and risks, identify issues and demonstrate initiative to appropriately escalate and resolve

* Formulate risk mitigation strategies and recommend solutions

* Effectively communicate progress, status, dependencies and risk to stakeholders to keep project on track

* Demonstrate leadership and communicate in a way that is motivating, optimistic and pragmatic; fosters teamwork, collaboration and action

* Work with vendors for all vendor-owned implementation activities who are working remotely offsite

* Partner with others to develop and implement best practices for project management, development life cycle; maintains 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 departmental SDLC, Project Management Methodologies and Computer Systems Validation (CSV) SOPs

Ideal candidate shall bring:

* 8+ years of experience managing IT projects, preferably implementing projects within Pharma clinical operations

* Ability to manage the project across global locations, time zones and to travel internationally if needed

* Formal project management and SDLC (System Development Lifecycle) methodologies, tools and techniques - strong working knowledge

* 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

* Experienced managing offshore contract resources

* Experience deploying CSV and GxP validated systems to a globally distributed stakeholders and end-users preferred

* Excellent English skills

* Very good communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills (both business and IT at all levels)

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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