Senior Project Manager

For our client, a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland, we are looking for a motivated and ambitious:

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

PROJECT BACKGROUND:

Support & co-fill the role of Basel Site Deployment Lead for personal fileshare migrations to Google Drive

The PM we are looking for on behalf of the Basel site project, is to:

- Assess the current status of plans, activities and deliverables that are within the scope of responsibility and accountability of the Site Deployment Lead role for Basel u:drive migration deployment project, and to identify and close gaps
- Include the scope of the additional roles, which are Site OCM Expert and Site Training Expert
- Ensure that adequate governance is in place.

MAIN TASKS:

- Plan, lead, monitor deployment activities on site level, including stakeholder management
- OCM activities (with Site IT OCM Expert)
- Training activities (with Site Training Expert)
- Establish site migration readiness (signs-off site migration readiness checklist)
- Accountable for hypercare activities
- Ensure Service Desk capacity/capabilities adapted to expected demand prior to migration start
- Align site deployment planning with site RMC and Legal department
- For lift-and-shift: Work with global migration team and Regional Deployment Lead to plan the migration in the site (schedule, batches)
- Align with Function Deployment Leads (if/as required) to ensure alignment between function-specific OCM activities and site-specific deployment communications/activities
- Serve as single-point-of-contact for site-level deployment activities
- Escalation point for local stakeholders and other site deployment roles
- Engage the business at site level, aligning communications, ensure management and line managers buy-in, as required depending on the site size and organization
- Collaborate with the site deployment lead to adapt the generic communications plan to create site communications plan
- Adapt communications templates and materials based on the site deployment plan
- Support the site deployment lead with executing communications activities, ie sending employee communications emails, organising site marketing via available channels (ie posters, Channel One, G+ communities, site IT newsletters, site Intranet)
- Coordinate migration communications with other communications initiatives (GoogleNext, COREMAP)
- Support the site deployment lead with stakeholder management communications as needed
- Estimating the size of the audience to be trained (some people may already be trained)
- Plan the Training Delivery
- Nominate Site Training Expert(s) to deliver the training (if a training is needed)
- Drive the Training Delivery
- Track the training statuses of employees
- Reports to the Site Deployment Lead for the planning and tracking activities

REQUIREMENTS:

- + 8 years of experience as Project Manager with profound experience in large scale deployment initiatives
- Recent Pharma experience
- Profound experience with OCM
- Senior stakeholder management experience

NICE TO HAVE:
+++ Experience with global teams

START DATE: ASAP
END DATE: 31.10.2017 (PLUS POSSIBLE EXTENSION)
WORK LOCATION: BASEL AREA (1 OR 2 DAYS A WEEK REMOTE WORK POSSIBLE)

Are you interested to work in this challenging position? Alessia Biassoli, Talent Resourcer, is looking forward to receiving your complete profile. Please send an e-mail (see below)