Senior Project Coordinator

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

Senior IT Project Coordinator

The IT User Services organization is implementing a regional Shared Service Center in Budapest as part of a global project named UniPhi. The EMEA regional project contains multiple work-streams and impacts multiple support sites.

This program's main aim is cost optimization to be able to invest in other important developments.
We are looking for a candidate with strong co-ordination and project governance skills to join our team as we manage the regional transitions through to the end of August 2017.

TASK AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Meeting with our affected Site representatives on a weekly basis
- Maintain and update the Site Transition Plan, RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) and produce a weekly Status Report per Site
- Ensuring that Project risks and issues are proactively highlighted to the project manager (contractor has here a signalling function)
- Proactively engage and follow-up with responsible stakeholders at all levels
- Assist the PMO in Planning and monitoring of project activities, and provide support in PMO duties to support planned and unplanned team member absences

MUST HAVES/REQUIREMENTS:

- Project Management Certification (PM know-how)
- Demonstrated experience in full life cycle of two or more Organizational Change Management projects in a complex Matrix environment, minimum of 7 years work experience in that area
- Excellent communication skills, stakeholder management skills, influencing and negotiating skills and flexibility required
- Must have proven experience in working with and coordinating regionalized project teams and virtual teams
- Self-motivated and strong documentation skills (quality of documentation is very important)
- Fluent in English
- Proven ability to work independently and self-reliant
- Hard working and proactive mindset

NICE TO HAVES:
+++ Experience in a Pharmaceutical environment
++ Flexible to travel within Europe
++ Experience with GoogleDocs, GDrive and Smartsheet (PM tool)
+ Other languages (German, Spanish, French, Polish)

STARTING DATE: 01.12.2016 (LATEST 09.01.2017)
Duration: Till 31.08.2017
Location: Basel (1 day/week remote 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)