IT Project Manager - Pharma/Clinical Operations

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 (eg 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 (eg 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.